Posted on 09/14/2022 4:52:18 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A towering bronze and granite monument to the Confederacy in Arlington National Cemetery depicts Southerners gallantly marching off to the Civil War -- and their Black slaves holding a white soldier's baby and following troops obediently.
Ringing the memorial, built in 1914, are shields listing the states that violently rebelled against the U.S. in an attempt to break away and keep about 4 million people in bondage.
"It is problematic from the top to the bottom," retired Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, the vice chair of the Naming Commission, told a press gathering on Tuesday.
The 108-year-old monument should be stripped and removed down to its granite base plate, the commission will tell Congress in a forthcoming report on its recommendations. The latest and final report by the Naming Commission, created by Congress to scrub Confederate tributes from military property, will also recommend renaming the Navy ship USS Chancellorsville, which takes its name from a Civil War battle.
The Navy guided-missile cruiser is named after the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, which was a Confederate victory and a major win for Gen. Robert E. Lee, one of the South's most skilled military leaders. Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded during the battle, according to the American Battlefield Trust.
The commission has completed three reports since August with sweeping recommendations for the Pentagon, which include renaming Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Benning, Georgia; and six other military bases in the South. It also said West Point and the Naval Academy should strip the names of Confederate military leaders from buildings and property.
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Well, lets get rid of Arlington Cemetery while we are at it since it used to belong to Robert E. Lee and was worked by negro slaves.
I can hardly believe I am seeing this with my own eyes. They certainly have purged the military of warfighters.
Beat me to it.
The Confederates were Americans.
Oh.
The “Naming Commission.”
How Soviet.
Ping
That is how I have always seen it. It makes no difference if I agree or disagree with them, I have always accepted they were Americans.
This is shameful.
Cowards. Fools. The Nation needs to be reminded of these things.
Thanks
As CSA General Jubal Early said during “reconstruction”, “What a gentle institution slavery must have been to have so well prepared the Negro for the ballot box.” They still ain’t voting right and are still a “block” in spite of noble exceptions like Clarence Thomas. So what if the monument shows loyal Blacks in servitude. It was reality. Now they can be wage slaves like me but Blacks should find a cause other than erasing history.
“Southerners gallantly marching off to the Civil War — and their Black slaves holding a white soldier’s baby and following troops obediently.”
That statue may depict history but it is very likely revisionist history.
Ping.
I could’ve sworn it was the United States that invaded the southern states and wage bloody war against Americans. All the southern states were doing was exercising their rights as Americans to withdraw from the federal compact, And create a new federal compact for the southern states to become a southern United States. The process itself was most democratic, as they say now. Every locality elected delegates to the state conventions which would answer the question of whether to succeed or not. It’s the same way the states gathered to agree to ratify the US Constitution in the first place. Oh well.
People thought this would "own the libs" even though it's exactly what they wanted.
>>The Confederates were Americans.<<
They were honorable men fighting against a federal behemoth.
Could West Point be Rainbow Point?
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Southern politicians will lead the charge.
C.W.
‘Operation Erase American History and Culture proceeds full throttle.’
all of which could have been avoided had landowners been bothered to pick their own cash crops...
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