I am petitioning to change the name of the Confederate Memorial Fountain located in Hopkinsville, KY to "The Cardinal Fountain". The Cardinal is the state bird of Kentucky and should be widely celebrated! Confederates who refused to abolish slavery and who supported white supremacy should not be celebrated at any time or in any place. 

Background on the fountain taken from Wikipedia:

The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a monument dedicated in October 1911. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

During the war, Nathan Bedford Forrest made his winter headquarters at Hopkinsville in 1861–1862. Although scholars admire Forrest as a military strategist, he has remained a highly controversial figure in Southern racial history, especially for his alleged role in the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow, his 1867–1869 leadership of the white-supremacist/terrorist Ku Klux Klan, and his political influence as a Tennessee delegate at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.On December 12, 1864, Confederate General Hylan B. Lyon burned the county courthouse at Hopkinsville, but the records survived.

The memorial fountain, eight feet tall and made of white marble, was built after the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy spent five years raising the funds to erect it. It was initially located at the corner of 9th Street and Main Street, but was later moved to the front of the Christian County Courthouse.