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Thread ID: 3766 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2002-11-30
2002-11-30 06:50 | User Profile
[url=http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_...1550887,00.html]http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/local_...1550887,00.html[/url]
HBO officials and attorneys probe interest in changing Memphis area park names...
Bailey said Lewis's attorney and some HBO officials were driving through downtown and spotted a monument dedicated to Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
"They thought that was a bit unbecoming," Bailey recalled. "That was sort of an awakening call."
That uncomfortable experience has prompted Bailey to begin some informal discussions about changing the names of three city parks dedicated to the Civil War: Confederate Park, where the Davis monument is located, nearby Jefferson Davis Park and Forrest Park in the medical center area.
So far, Bailey said he's met only with a few city leaders to gauge support for the potentially controversial idea.
Bailey said a public discussion of park renaming is probably premature, so he talked about it only reluctantly.
But he said the goal would be to remove some symbols of an era many Memphians would rather forget.
"Changes would be consistent with our efforts to become a world-class city," Bailey said. "These monuments are offensive to some people."
2002-11-30 06:57 | User Profile
...yet self-proclaimed "conservatives" call us cranks for advising them to cancel their cable subscriptions
2002-11-30 07:55 | User Profile
Memphis cannot be a "First Class City"; it is a Third World city, one small level ahead of Detroit, East St. Louis, IL, and Gary, IN.
2002-11-30 10:34 | User Profile
Link doesn't work. Lewis who? Lennox Lewis, the boxer who fought Tyson in Memphis earlier this year? Doesn't he have a contract with HBO?
Anyway, these g-ddamned jewsmedia scum ought to be drawn & quartered for attempting to erase the memory of Southern heroes. One day it'll be the Hollowcost Museum that will be razed.
2002-11-30 11:56 | User Profile
Letters 11/20: Proposal to rename parks touches off debate November 20, 2002
Shelby County Commission Chairman Walter Bailey wants to rename at least three Memphis parks that honor Confederate Civil War leaders or the war itself (Nov. 17 article).
Bailey said he was embarrassed when people involved with the Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson heavyweight title fight noticed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Confederate Park in downtown Memphis. Why isn't he embarrassed by the pitiful display of citizenship we Americans show every election when we refuse to exercise the civil rights we have fought so hard to preserve and for which so many heroes have died?
Historical monuments remind us where we have come from and why we are who we are, and what we have yet to do about it. If we rename the parks, we simply allow the bad old memories to sink beneath the pleasantry of political correctness.
We need to be embarrassed regularly and repeatedly. We need to be shocked awake, lest we are embarrassed again by another election like the last one.
We need to remember Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest and how we have left them behind, creating a new nation that longs for equality and shared governance.
Let's ask Bailey to spearhead a drive to bring all Memphians who did not vote in the last election to the National Civil Rights Museum, so he can remind them about the cost of the rights they embarrassingly neglect. Let him bring them to the Jefferson Davis monument and the Nathan Bedford Forrest tomb so he can remind them about the embarrassment we fought that incredible war over. Let him bring them to the other monuments dedicated to our war dead, and remind these nonvoters why these young men and women fought and died. Let him remind them about the cost at which we have preserved the rights they so embarrassingly spurn.
We do not need to rename our parks; we need to remember who we Memphians have been. History is not an embarrassment; it is a call to remembrance and vigilance.
Roger Easson
More: [url=http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/letters_to_editor/article/0,1426,MCA_538_1553703,00.html]http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/letters_to_ed...1553703,00.html[/url]
One of the letter writers said it best:
"Is a city that will scramble for the "honor" of inviting a convicted rapist and ex-convict with cannibalistic tendencies to fight here worried about its image?"
He sounds like you, N.B.!
:D
2002-11-30 16:45 | User Profile
**"They thought that was a bit unbecoming," Bailey recalled. "That was sort of an awakening call." **
So Confederate monuments to heros is unbecoming, but putting on a show called 'Sex and the City' about nothing more than the title suggests, and putting on a show about the horrors of prison, and putting on a show about a mobster who commits every sin imaginable, this is becoming. What a sad little country this is. Heros who fought for freedom and Christianity are an embarassment, while Jew smut culture is adored.
It is sad to be reminded that a mere 140 years ago men such as those honored Confederates were our leaders, and now we are left with sniveling little women like Walter Bailey.