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"\"The buck stops here\" is how Memphis mayor Willie Herenton began a keenly awaited press conference in the Hall of Mayors at City Hall Wednesday. That was his preamble to distancing the City of Memphis from any formal response to the current name-change controversy raging about three downtown parks that have associations with Confederate history.By the time he had finished, the mayor seemed clearly, in the judgment of most news media present, to have passed that buck.What he did, basically, was to propose deeding over Forrest Park to the neighboring University of\n    Tennessee medical school and Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park to\n    the Riverfront Development Corporation which now maintains them.The mayor said the park issue had become \"a distraction\" and that  the city should neither rename them nor associate itself with a recent proposal to disinter the remains of General Nathan Bedford Forrest from the park that bears his name.\"In the aftermath of the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in our city, we do not need another event that portrays Memphis nationally as a city still racially polarized and fighting the Civil War all over again,\" the mayor said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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