S E528: Tami Sawyer: The Take Down of Nathan Bedford Forrest (First Grand Wizard of the KKK)

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Tami Sawyer, Shelby County Commissioner and Chair of Education in her hometown of Memphis, TN, was the driving force behind the removal of the memorial to Nathan Bedford Forrest (first grand wizard of the KKK) at Health Sciences Park. She was harassed by a confederate flag waving racist singing Dixie. She shares her experience with Karen.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So last week, I think it was last week or the week before this video came across my
0:17.0	timeline and I was like what is happening here? I see this man behind a fence and he's waving a
0:24.1	Confederate flag and I see this powerful woman speaking her speak. Let's play the
0:29.2	clip a little bit.
0:30.3	No, Tom, sir, I'm off, we forgot.
0:32.1	Look the way. I forgot to look away.
0:33.0	Look away.
0:34.0	Look away.
0:35.0	He's going to stand behind me.
0:39.0	And since explain.
0:40.0	And I just told you all that my ancestors
0:42.0	come on and look away.
0:44.0	I'm not making this up.
0:46.0	I have slave records.
0:47.0	My ancestors pick cotton.
0:49.0	While his ancestors beat and raped my ancestors.
0:53.0	And Dixie, and I'll take my stand.
0:57.0	Dixie is dead.
0:59.0	And it was killed by the descendants of black people.
1:02.0	The descendants of black people. The descendants of black people,
1:04.8	man, Turner and Tammy Sawyer and others,
1:06.8	we took your hero down.
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