Tennessee Republicans Punished Memphis For Removing Racism!

State Republicans strip funds from Memphis after they removed Confederate statues.

So when Republicans say the Democrats are the party of the Klan.....

Whenever conservatives bemoan Black America about how our lives haven't improved, they often focus on the Democratic Party and its former standard bearer Barack Obama.

The party of Donald J. Trump has been very vocal about political correctness.

Removing statues of a long scorned legacy seems to piss the Republicans off.

Tennessee state lawmakers voted to strip Memphis of funding after the city went through its promise to dismantle Confederate monuments.

Steve McDaniel, a state representative who sponsored legislation to strip bicentennial funds from Memphis believe the removal of these historical markers were going against the will of the people.

Memphis from the Mississippi River.

Memphis, the largest city in the state with a population of 694,000 residents. A city with a majority Black population.

Okay, Republicans are you saying to Black America, hey you're gonna respect the founders of hate?

Nathan Bedford Forrest is the originator of the Ku Klux Klan, the oldest and most dangerous white extremist group in the United States.

Since Trump has been in office, the Southern Poverty Law Center has seen a spike in hate groups. The spike is contributed to anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and perceptions of Black people treating the police with utter disrespect.