This is not a "mob"!
And contrary to the clickbait article headline, it's one gravesite.
Yeah the headline on this is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.
Forrest spent most of his adult life in and around Memphis; he and his wife rested there for many years, first in a public cemetery then since 1904 in a park first called "Forrest Park" underneath a large equestrian statue of him. As attitudes changed the park was renamed "Health Sciences Park" and agitation grew for the statue to be removed. However the state of TN regulates very heavily the removal of statues and monuments from public property, so even when the city of Memphis was fully in the control of anti-historical race baiting Ds, the statue stayed.
Then Memphis got the idea to secretly sell the park; if it were private property the new owners could dispose of the statue however they wanted. They made a secret midnight deal with a local nonprofit, and the statue was then immediately removed. The TN state legislature did not take this lightly, and took significant money away from Memphis that had already been budgeted for various state-supported activities. They also amended state law to prevent the same sort of approach by anyone else in the future.
I believe the non-profit still owns the park, but once General and Mrs. Forrest have been reinterred at the Sons of Confederate Veterans museum in Columbia, TN, Memphis will buy it back. The equestrian statue of Forrest will be moved to the same museum as well.
While I am firmly opposed to the removal of Confederate icons by mobs, I think this is overall a very good solution. The citizens of Memphis, acting through their local elected representatives, certainly have the right to make this change, and the graves were in danger of being defiled by BLM protesters. Forrest's descendants have all signed off on this deal and of course the SCV is happy to host General and Mrs Forrest for eternity.
