(Relevant) Alabama State Representative Will Dismukes has said he will not resign from politics after it was revealed that he attended a celebration for Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder the Ku Klux Klan. However, the Washington Post reports that he will be stepping down from leadership at the rural Alabama church where he serves as pastor.
It started on Facebook, where Dismukes posted about celebrating Bedford Forrest’s life the same weekend that other ceremonies in Alabama were scheduled to honor the life of Rep. John Lewis, the celebrated hero of Selma and civil rights giant who passed away earlier in July. Outrage ensued and the Facebook post was removed.