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Friday 12 June 2020

Taylor Swift: monuments that celebrate racist figures "make me sick"

The singer criticized Tennessee lawmakers for allowing statues of ‘historical figures who did eveil things’ in the state’s capitol

Taylor Swift has criticized Tennessee lawmakers as an intense debate over removing racist monuments rages across the US.

“As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things,” tweeted Swift, who owns a home in Nashville. “Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3cY5rZZ

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