Do you want right winger license plates to celebrate Nathan B Forrest?

Carl Herrera · Feb 11, 2011

Should the state of Mississippi approve one of those? Does anyone here want one?

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/02/10/one-wonders-what-the-next-vanity-plate-will-be/

[T]he neo-Confederates in Mississippi have decided to celebrate the legacy of a Slave Trader, War Criminal, American Traitor and Domestic Terrorist with a special commemorative license plate.

There are vile, violent and evil men populating the history of our Nation, but you have to look long and hard to find folks as immoral, dishonorable and deceitful as Nathan Bedford Forrest. He is a patron saint of white supremacy, racism and treason.

So naturally, he should be celebrated as a wingnutopia role model.

He was an entrepreneur and in the years leading up to the Civil War he made a fortune buying and selling people. He was the co-fonder of the “NegroMart” a wholesale mega store for slaves and when the war started he was filthy rich.

During the war he organized a gang of excessively violent and vengeful riders who were very skilled at the hit and run tactics of guerrilla fighting. He has been greatly mythologized over the years by the Church of The Lost Cause, but he was little more than a war criminal. Perhaps his most famous crime was the Massacre at Fort Pillow in 1864 where he ordered his troops to murder hundreds of surrendering troops. As Forrest himself put it in his first report of the killing field:

“The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. My loss was about twenty killed. It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners.”
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amaru · Feb 11, 2011

MoonDogg · Feb 11, 2011

I want plates to celebrate Forrest Whitaker...

Invisible Fan · Feb 11, 2011

I would buy them, gold plate them, and sell them like hotcakes with some cleverly placed late night Fox News Channel adds.

pgabriel · Feb 11, 2011

you could have nathan forrest plates, and bubba gump tees, isn't this the guy forrest gump said he was named after.

Dairy Ashford · Feb 11, 2011

Two facts I think the blog post linking to a thinkprogress article about a private group lobbying the state is ignoring in favor of (admittedly well-deserved) historical stigma: Mississippi is 36% black, and has one of the highest numbers of black elected officials in the country. So I doubt these things will get made without a court ruling of some kind.

KingCheetah · Feb 11, 2011

My custom license plate says 'DENZEL'.

basso · Feb 11, 2011

I love to tour the southland, in a traveling minstrel show.

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