I applaud anyone who calls out Democrats for their racist past. Cruz is correct. Nathan Bedford Forest, while perhaps one of the greatest cavalry commanders ever, was also a primary founder of the KKK. His participation was short-lived, and the Klan of Reconstruction days was not the same Klan that President Woodrow Wilson help resurrect. But it has always been inappropriate for politicians like Algore to criticize States like South Carolina and Mississippi for celebrating their Confederate heritage, yet remain silent on Tennessee's celebration of Forest.
Ted Cruz should be commended for speaking out and fighting a battle that most Republicans are too cowardly to address. Just last week we saw Joe Biden describing segregationists like Herman Talmadge and James Eastland as being on the other side of the aisle. And not one Republican corrected him by pointing out that the segregationists were all on Biden's side of the aisle. God bless Ted Cruz for standing in the way of Democrats rewriting history. I am sick and tired of hearing liberals who really do believe George Wallace was a Republican, that Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act, and that the Dred Scott decision was handed down by a Republican Supreme Court.