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lawhawk2/06/2013 9:48:25 am PST

re: #379 Vicious Babushka

TN legislature is pushing a bill that would prevent renaming parks that currently honor confederates. Memphis city officials then attempted to head that off with a renaming several of the parks before the legislature could approve the bill that would be sent to the governor.

The council on Tuesday passed a resolution to immediately rename Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park in downtown Memphis and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, which lies just a few miles away. The vote was 9-0 with three members abstaining.

The resolution changes the name of Confederate Park to Memphis Park; Jefferson Davis Park to Mississippi River Park; and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park to Health Sciences Park.

Forrest, a Confederate general and cavalry leader, was a slave trader before the war and the KKK’s first Grand Wizard. He also is accused of massacring dozens of black Union soldiers who tried to surrender at the battle at Fort Pillow in 1864. Davis was president of the confederacy.

“The parks are changed. It’s done,” said Councilman Lee Harris, The Commercial Appeal reported. “We removed controversial names and named them something that is less controversial.”

The new names may be only temporary until more permanent names are chosen, the Memphis Daily News reported.

Council members made no secret of their attempt to vote for and finalize the move, which normally would require three hearings, in order to beat an attempt by two state lawmakers in Nashville to block such name changes.

The city council even voted to approve its minutes Tuesday to prevent the measure from being reconsidered at its next meeting.

The “Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2013” bill, already introduced in the state legislature, would prohibit name changes to any “statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, plaque, historic flag display,school, street, bridge,building, park preserve, or reserve which has been erected for, or named or dedicated in honor of, any historical military figure,historical military event, military organization, or military unit” on public property, according toThe Memphis Flyer.

The bill specifically included the “War Between the States,” in its language, a reference to the view that the Civil War was fought between two separate countries.

Anyone remember who actually won the Civil War? It wasn’t the South, except that those in the South think that they did (or should have).