Memphis expects to sue state over Confederate monuments

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Ryan Poe, USA TODAY NETWORK
Published 10:07 a.m. CT Aug. 14, 2017
Updated 1:27 p.m. CT Aug. 14, 2017

Memphis is preparing to sue Tennessee to remove the city's two Confederate monuments, City Attorney Bruce McMullen said Monday, a day after Mayor Jim Strickland condemned white supremacists for violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The city will file for a waiver from the Tennessee Historical Commission within 30 days to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from Mississippi River Park in Downtown, McMullen said. He expects the commission to reject the waiver and a still-pending waiver to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Health Science Park, triggering appeals — all the way to the state Supreme Court.

"What Nathan Bedford Forrest stood for doesn't express the views of this community at this time and it's counterproductive to what we want this community to be, and that is an inclusive community working together," McMullen said ...

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1. In light of recent events, what is the rationale for clinging to treasonous war memorabilia? nt