The city of Memphis could lose a quarter-million dollars as punishment for removing statues of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate President Jefferson Davis last year.
The Tennessee House of Representatives voted Tuesday to strip the money from next year's state budget. The sum had been earmarked to go toward planning for Memphis' bicentennial celebrations next year.A key thing to understand here: Memphis is 63 percent black. Tennessee is 83 percent white.
What you have here is a white state punishing a black city for not honoring the heroes of racism. Disgusting.
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