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The Most Hideous Confederate Statue by the Man Who Defended MLK’s Killer

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The Nathan Bedford Forrest Equestrian Statue in Nashville is a monument to the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. Like its subject, it is a monstrosity with an ugly past.

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