Taylor Swift Urged Tennessee Leaders To Remove Its Racist Statues

Taylor Swift Urged Tennessee Leaders To Remove Its Racist Statues In an Emotional Instagram Post

"As a Tennesseean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.

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