Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and former member of the Ku Klux Klan will be dug up from his grave after 110 years of being buried in a city park located in Memphis, Tennessee. The park is named after him with a statue in remembrance of his service in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

The protestors of the Commission on Religion and Race (CRR) are said to be tired of waiting around for the proper legal actions to be taken care of and are ready to take care of things themselves, which involves digging up the grave without legal permission.

The Forrest family spoke out against the protestors by saying they “can protest all they want. Just because they don't like something doesn't mean they are right. Digging up this park is pure and simple vandalism.”

African American Mayor Wharton of Memphis is requesting not only that the bodies of Forrest and his wife be dug up and relocated to Elmwood Cemetery, but for the statue to be removed and “sold to anyone.”

My question is why after all this time are they digging up a dead man? Isn't that really bad luck? He is said to be the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, but regardless there are multiple reasons why digging up bodies from the grave is morally wrong. Destroying a park isn't going to solve anything or magically make every thing that happened in the past disappear. People want either revenge for the past or to start another war, and at the rate it’s going it won’t be long before either one is accomplished. There are more important things in the world to be dealing with than the deceased.