Petition launched to replace KKK leader’s statue with Dolly Parton
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nme.comDolly Parton.The monument to former grand wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest is currently located in the Tennessee Capitol building.In the wake of the recent Black Lives Matter protests and global conversations about systemic racism, both protestors and authorities have begun taking down statues of Confederate figures and slave owners.A petition started by Alex Parsons is calling on the Tennessee State House to remove the statue of Forrest and put a new one of “true Tennessee hero” Parton up in its place. “Tennessee is littered with statues memorialising confederate officers,” Parsons wrote.
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