Posted on 06/26/2015 1:22:39 AM PDT by markomalley
Some of the most important U.S. Army bases in the country including forts Hood, Bragg, Benning, Gordon and Polk are named for Confederate officers, nearly all slaveholders and one generally acknowledged to have been a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Few soldiers, let alone civilians, are aware of the origins of the names of the bases where they live and work.
Some who do, particularly African-Americans, feel insulted.
The propriety of paying homage to men who fought under the rebel flag is coming under renewed scrutiny after the racially motivated killing of nine black worshippers in a historic Charleston, S.C., church. Calls to banish the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol grounds have turned into a national movement to strip symbols of the Confederacy from public parks and buildings, license plates, stores and more.
To many, the names of 10 Army bases should be reviewed as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
hey the blacks have been freed for a long time... enough of this askissing sheet...as the libtards SAY.....move on
trillions have been spent on libtard bleeding heart freeesheet programs over the last 60 years...
the actions of one lunatic bring all this about....
NO ... THE RACIST COMMIE MUSLIM SCUMBAG IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS BEHIND IT.... alll part of his plan to divide and incite racism.. he’s got the black chip on his shoulder and the pos has led a privileged life his entire existence...
Lincoln, though a great foe of the Confederacy, embraced full restoration of the Union with the Confederate states electing their own representatives with the former Confederate soldiers allowed to vote and hold office. He favored limiting the franchise only to those blacks who were well-educated or ex-military. The Radical Republicans were American Jacobins, kindred in spirit to today's liberals and neo-conservatives. They wanted to reconstruct the Southern states, disenfranchising the supporters of the Confederacy from voting, imposing military rule, stealing land for redistribution to ex-slaves, and giving the franchise to illiterate and impoverished ex-slaves. The Southern states would be turned into colonies of the North, ruled by carpetbaggers, assisted by Southern white turncoats and former slaves.
After a few years, the Northern electorate had had enough of the Radical Republicans and turned them out in favor of moderate Republicans and Democrats, who were at the time advocates of limited government in the Jeffersonian tradition. The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction. Rutherford Hayes agreed to remove the Federal troops remaining in the South. In the ensuing years, the Federal union stabilized, and mutual recognition of the honorable nature of the former foes ensued. By the time of the Spanish American War, Southerners participated fully in the military actions. In fact, Joseph Wheeler, former Confederate general, was appointed a major general for this war and commanded Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders. At the 50th and 75th anniversaries of major battles like Gettysburg, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy fraternized as if they were former opponents at the Rose Bowl or the World Series.
The reconciliation of the regions was necessary to enable the United States to be restored to unity, prosperity, and finally status as a world power. Had this nation undergone decades of unending strife and a South as unhappy as Ireland was under British rule, we would not have been able to help stop Hitler and Tojo, nor later taken on the Soviet Union and its satellites. Honoring Confederate generals in their native region by naming military bases, schools, roads, etc., was necessary in bringing the nation back together.
Liberals and RINOs like the governors of South Carolina and Alabama are essentially repealing the reconciliation of the post-Reconstruction period. The Left aims, and is succeeding, in reconstructing, or rather destroying, American society, the Christian religion, and Western civilization, to a degree that would far exceed the dreams of even the most radical Republican of 150 years ago.
LOL Guess so.
(Sorry to yell, Leo & all, but) YES!
Might as well rename everything in the State of W. VA, the ‘great’ kleagle (sp?) Mr. Bird.
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