Someone needs to tell them that changing the name now won’t change the history.
The cowardice of this is frightening. I mean being afraid to simply say this ship was named for someone we view negatively today. That is an interesting piece of history, the name isn’t going to assault anyone or convince them that slavery was good.
Go to Italy and you’ll find monuments to the most brutal dictators imaginable. Not just during the empire but in the Renaissance city states as well.
No one thinks all those monuments, names on buildings or great art is going to bring back the Roman Empire or the Medicis.
Borgias?