UNIVERSITY NEWS Board rejects efforts to rename MT building

[SpaceRaider]

Board rejects efforts to rename MTSU building named after first Ku Klux Klan leader

Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, was known for slave trading and believed to be the first grand wizard of the Klux Klux Klan.

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[BlueraiderSC]

Our state can be really stupid. It’s like that embarrassing display you see when driving down I65.

 

[SpaceRaider]

The university just needs to tear down the building and replace it, screw the commission.

 

[blueraider315]

I have no problem keeping the name.

And the statue on 65, unless you knew, it was just there. Now the statue is gone but the flags are still up, not kept up at all.

 

[BlueraiderSC]

I have no problem keeping the name.

And the statue on 65, unless you knew, it was just there. Now the statue is gone but the flags are still up, not kept up at all.

Yeah the flags stay up. That’s bad enough.

 

[MTTim]

I have no problem keeping the name.

And the statue on 65, unless you knew, it was just there. Now the statue is gone but the flags are still up, not kept up at all.

I thought the statue and flags are on private property. Didn't the old man die and whomever inherited the property had the statue removed.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Years ago there was a master plan and maybe revisions to it that showed a academic building (IIRC) where the old ROTC bldg exists.

 

[blueraider315]

I thought the statue and flags are on private property. Didn't the old man die and whomever inherited the property had the statue removed.

It is and a court came in and said it needed to be removed. Now it is just left unkept, bringing more attention to it, than had it stayed.