Taylor Swift: People Who ‘Perpetuated Hideous Patterns of Racism’ Don’t Deserve Statues

On Friday, singer Taylor Swift posted a series of tweets to her nearly 90 million followers, advocating for the state of Tennessee to stop preserving two statues of “racist historical figures who did evil things,” Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and newspaper editor Edward Carmack. “As a Tennessean,” […]