Posted on 08/14/2017 3:08:29 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Several Brooklyn Democrat activists are smarting this week after a firm rebuke from the U.S. Army. The activists, who include Congresswoman Yvette Clarke and (sigh) the Rev. Al Sharpton, demanded that the Army rename two Brooklyn streets that are named after generals in the Confederate military. But General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive won’t be changing their names anytime soon because the Army has rejected their requests for, cough cough, social justice.
Those streets at Fort Hamilton, said the Army in their letter, are named after men who are “an inextricable part of our military history.” As such, they will continue to be memorialized, no matter how bent of out shape it makes a handful of politicians with nothing better to do with their time.
“After over a century, any effort to rename memorializations on Fort Hamilton would be controversial and divisive,” Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Diane Randon said in the letter. “This is contrary to the Nation’s original intent in naming these streets, which was the spirit of reconciliation.”
Both Lee and Jackson, of course, were proud members of the U.S. military decades before the Civil War. In their time as leaders in the “Union,” as it were, they both served at Fort Hamilton at various points in their careers.
Clarke was unhappy about the response, telling the New York Daily News that the fight was not over. These monuments are deeply offensive to the hundreds of thousands of Brooklyn residents and members of the armed forces stationed at Fort Hamilton whose ancestors Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson fought to hold in slavery,” she said. “For too many years, the United States has refused to reckon with that history.”
Please. Sometimes it feels like the United States does nothing OTHER than “reckon with that history.” Is Clarke serious? Nothing else in our national past gets as much attention as the enslavement of blacks. We’re certainly not suggesting that this is an era of our history we should cover up or strive to forget, but let’s get real. The idea that we’re somehow trying to whitewash that history just doesn’t pass the smell test.
Besides, that has nothing to do with what’s going on here. These memorials are not suddenly “deeply offensive” to anyone. They are the left’s newest cause celebre – a rallying point around which they can create a problem where none exists. It’s so much easier to build a “problem” out of straw and then knock it down than it is to actually address the issues facing the American people here and now, in the present moment. And we’re sure it makes for a great donation strategy as well.
These activists have plenty of sway when it comes to Democratic-run city councils in New Orleans and corporate stores like Amazon…but they don’t have any when it comes to the U.S. military. So we’ll enjoy this little smackdown of political correctness for the time being, even if we know that, like Clarke herself said, the fight is not over.
By the way. My best advise is don’t EVEN think about touching the statue of Robert E. Lee, the great General that is our Southern heritage
Why wasn’t this controversial 99 years ago, 80 years ago, 50 years ago, 20 years ago. What has brought on this sudden sensitivity
FINALLY! Someone says no to these bastards. Hooray!
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....What has brought on this sudden sensitivity...
So.ple. They saw that they could get away with it.
Let’s destroy all American history - it’s gonna ‘trigger’ something in ‘the black community’.... maybe our success makes they feel ‘inferior’... Maybe our music reminds them their music wasn’t ‘first’ for years and years.
And not just Southern Civil War remnants - destroy all the Northern Statues too. Anything that reminds ‘the black community’ of slavery needs to be destroyed. Plantation homes in the South that survived? Tear ‘em down. Whatever it takes...Street Names? Change em. Books about the civil war? Burn ‘em. Black Americans are a bottomless pit of resentment. The most unpleasant minority group in the history of the United States.
Our country lost more citizens to the Civil War than to all the wars combined.. We died to end slavery. But that’s not enough for the black community. Nope, nothing is ‘enough’ for them... they wallow in their grievances...
The black community wishes they had never been taken out of Africa... the rest of us are starting to agree with them...
“Robert E. Lee, the great General that is our Southern heritage”
AMERICAN Heritage, my friend. He is as American as any other person. Could ever be.
THAT is where America has failed to educate our children that leads to this.
The Confederacy was American. All Confederates were Americans.
Do they have a Benedict Arnold street? Adolf Hitler street? Obama bin Laden? Er, sorry, Osama bin Laden.
You are so right about “education” rthese air heads don’t even know who fought WWII. They are mush brains on their way to nowhere. the only education today is in private or home schools. I am southern and I am proud of mt Southern heritage. It is a big part on America.
Let’s rename everything called “Martin Luther King” anything.
Sharptoon has been layin low ... If Jesse shoes up, game on .. Race baiters Inc ...
Go take a dirt nap at South Mountain. Your handle makes you less than objective.
The king of england lost, and yet we still have King’s Highway. Feel free to ESAD.
The only thing that needs to be taken down is the Confederate flag at taxpayer-funded buildings. Fly a hundred of them in your yard or on your business if you like and build a thousand memorials to your defeated slave empire. Legal segregation is nothing more than an overblown memory in anywhere but a tiny handful of podunk burgs that nobody with any money or brains lives in. If you’re really that offended by some statues to a toothless has-been of a nation and its equally toothless supporters (none of whom dare challenge an army with drones and tanks and machine guns) there are really no appreciable barriers to moving.
It’s just another way to bring down our country. We’re being chipped away to make room for the muslim takeover.
Not so surprising when you look at how things were 99 or 80 or even 50 years ago.
Of course, politics fuels a lot of what's going on now, but given that monuments went up and streets were named back in the segregation era, it's not surprising that sooner or later there would be agitation to take down the statures and rename the streets.
Why does the Army control the name of Brooklyn streets ?
They are losing everywhere, so they are going for broke.
Let’s break them.
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