Forest Hills Residents Angry About Confederate Street Renaming Ruling
(Just so it’s clear, this was a privately developed sub-division where people chose to live and had no problem with the street names. It only became an issue after annexation.So some woke lib-tard complained. - DD)
The City of Forest Hills is one step closer in an attempt to rename six streets named after Confederate leaders.
Walter Bentley said that he has fond memories of growing up in the neighborhood after moving to one of those streets with his family in 1969.
“I remember riding bicycles through this area when it was just cow pastures,” Bentley told News 2. “I just think it’s a great place and I’ve enjoyed living here for all these years.”
Throughout the neighborhood, roads have names like Robert E. Lee Drive and Jefferson Davis Court. Recently, the City of Forest Hills filed suit appealing a decision from the Tennessee Historical Commission, which said the city could not change the names because they were “memorials” protected under the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act.
Last week, a judge sided with the city and found that the streets were not memorials. That means that Forest Hills could once again ask the Tennessee Historical Commission to change the names.
“We just want to see the removal of all the remnants of the legacy of the legacy of the confederacy,” said Ibrahim Hooper with the Council for American-Islamic Relations. “These were people who…