Metro Asks TDOT to Block Nathan Bedford Statue

The Metro Council formally voted Tuesday to ask the state to help block the view of a controversial statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest that’s visible from Interstate 65.

As The Tennessean reports, the resolution — sponsored by At-large Councilman Jerry Maynard — was approved by a voice vote.

The statue of the Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader is on private land. The resolution requests that the Tennessee Department of Transportation and Davidson County’s delegation at the Tennessee General Assembly “take the necessary action” to help obscure the view of the statue by planting vegetation.

Confederate iconography has been under intense scrutiny since a mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., last month.  See More at The Nashville Business Journal

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