The glowering face of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, father of the KKK and nasty looking dude would be the first of five Confederate Generals to be honored in the specialty license plan proposed by the ‘Sons of Confederate Veterans.’ Forrest is certainly a controversial choice, and the decision to use him as the first of the five raises some questions about race relations down in Dixie. Perhaps as Barney Fife said, this will give calmer heads time to ‘Nip the ill conceived idea in the bud!"
Not everyone is thrilled with the idea. Wishful thinker, and Mississippi NAACP president Derrick Johnson underestimated Barbour’s political aspirations. Johnson reasonably called upon Barbour to denounce the license plate idea. While Johnson and many other sane people unfettered by inbreeding, feel that the atrocity shouldn’t be ‘honored’ on a license plate or an outhouse, Barbour has not forgotten his plans to run in 2012, and in diplomatic style, replied: "I don’t go around denouncing people."
RJ – Barbour is no different than Speaker of the House Boehner who refused to "denounce" the ugly Birthers in the GOP because he says he does not "tell people what to think." Both are quick to "denounce" or "tell people what to think" if they are not Republicans. But more importantly both men are giving in to the wholesale racism inherent in the Republican Base.