an actor portraying a bad person from history (and evidently this one repented) is not playing himself.
Someone has to play the role of Hitler if there is a movie. That is not the same as revisionist history praising the scum.
Might even be more of a test of the actor's skills.
frankj1 wrote:
Now you're comparing Nathan Bedford Forrest to Hitler?[-x
So what made him a bad person from history? The fact that he kicked Yankee a$$? Or the fact that he was a slaveowner? Or the fact that he was a hero to many during and after the war?
Frank, that is using your presentism to revise history to your liking instead of appraising the man for what he was, a man of his times who made a conscious choice to take up arms against invaders to his country. Even some of his slaves fought voluntarily beside him against the Yankee hoards.
https://jdrhawkins.com/2018/01/11/the-slaves-of-general-forrest/ This is your KKK guy who must have been involved in lynching and stuff...well because that fits the leftist/neocon narrative.
As reported in The Memphis Daily Appeal—Saturday, August 8, 1868. Meeting of the Conservative Club of Colored Men of the Fourth Ward at Stillman Hall:
“Loud calls were made for Gen. Forrest, who appeared and made a forcible address, informing the colored men who were their best friends, and of the designs of the Radicals to plunge the country into a war of races. He informed them that the Southern man was the true friend of the black race, and if the scalawags got them into trouble the black man would have to do the fighting, while the scalawag ran away, as usual. He advised them not to be seduced into joining Loyal Leagues, or other secret societies, but to go to work and become industrious, and vote the Democratic ticket. When the white people become free, through the aid of the colored man, then, all would be at peace, and the Conservative man would protect them in all their rights. He would protect them, and every honest Southern man would do likewise. Gen. Forrest spoke about an hour, and was loudly applauded.”
