Nathan Bedford Forrest is still all over the place in Tennessee. A state park is named for him, a bronze bust of his image watches over the state Capitol, and a grandiose monument of him resides at his grave in Memphis. But his most gripping presence may be along Interstate 65, running through Nashville, where there’s a can’t-miss-it statue of Forrest—he’s atop a horse, with a sword in his right hand, a pistol in his left, surrounded by Confederate flags. Forrest was a Tennessee-born lieutenant general in the Confederate Army; after the Civil War ended, he focused his energy on the Ku Klux Klan, which anointed him its first grand wizard. The 25-foot fiberglass statue was created by lawyer and sculptor Jack Kershaw, who is best known for being among the string of lawyers hired to defend James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.

Racism is found in the eyes of the Confederate HOLDERs.