Posted on 06/06/2022 6:01:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
As a young military service member, Richard Kingsberry said he wasn’t aware that two of the bases where he served had been named after Confederate leaders Braxton Bragg and Robert E. Lee.
That realization would happen later, but it helped sparked him to join the effort to see names on military boats, installations and other places removed, saying that they sent the wrong message about the nation’s history and ideals.
The effort to remove the namesakes of those who aligned themselves with the Confederacy hit a critical step as the Naming Commission recently put forth several names to replace military installations such as Fort Lee and Bragg that are named in honor of Confederate leaders.
In its place, installations may be named after women, people of African and Latino descent and other national leaders such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former president and general.
“I think it is the appropriate thing to do to rename these military bases that are named after Confederate individuals,” said Kingsberry, commander of the National Association for Black Veterans.
He added: “That's an honor that we don't believe that they should be bestowed upon them because of their actions in going against this country, and their actions to support the institution of slavery.”
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We don't. We let them have it; we have no choice under the current regime, which does not represent our interests, and never will.
We are going to have to separate ourselves from their madness and insanity - and form our own communities to govern and live as we so choose instead of having their sick world foisted on us and our children.
So Kingsberry and others were so ignorant that they had no idea who the bases were named for. Then someone or something made them aware that they should be aggrieved by historical names. Who or what takes on the mighty Marxist job of agitating the masses?
Is it cruel and RACIST to make black people feel put upon by history, making them live in the worst episodes of the past, and personalizing events far outside their own lives or experience? Instead of feeding ignorant people just enough to agitate them, much broader history lessons are needed to provide context (i.e., that the histories of all peoples are replete with enslavements, territorial usurpations, etc.). Or is that just a way to help honkies escape punishment for sins committed before they were born?
I wonder if that rusted out scaffolding passed a safety check.
Some how Fort Jive doesn’t sound right.
I do not like this phrase. It’s trite and hollow virtue signaling. I asked a strong 2nd amendment supporter friend of mine why he didn’t join the NRA. He’s a Georgia country boy. He tends to support Dem candidates, like most Black voters, but he mentioned lack of diversity at NRA meetings. I then said would you joining make NRA more diverse or less. Then he moved to the inclusion buzzword, saying their annual meetings don’t seem inclusive. Granted I am not a fan of the current NRA with its scandals but it’s done some important lobbying work including constitutional carry which he supports.
The very first sentence he advertises his ignorance.
Yes, it’s both. It’s done for profit and control, to exploit for personal financial and political reasons, to continue a generational subjugation of Blacks by always “reminding them” their ancestors (and thus them as well) were once viewed as less than human. It keeps them trapped on a mental plantation where they never get a fair deal or are owed more than equal opportunity, respect and human dignity. It keeps them powerless while claiming to be stated in the name of empowerment. It’s insidious.
Sorry, no it isn’t. A judge in California just ruled that Bees are fish.
“Why name military bases at all? Just number them, like New York City public schools.”
I was thinking zip codes with the appropriate title (ie Fort 36583, U.S Naval Base 20160), they use zips in slang for locations...
I heard tell that the bees self identified as fish. It didn’t go well when they tried to swim.
Lol. I heard that too.
How I’ll educated does one have to be to not know that Lee was the confederate general?
“These dumbasses don’t realize the base naming in the south was largely about NATIONAL RECONCILIATION.”
Great post. I suppose the period of reconciliation is over. Of course, it is obvious that our current Federal Government is the greatest threat to our Freedom.
When Stacy Abrams becomes governor she will try to have the bas relief sculpture removed from Stone Mountain. They somehow call it restorative justice. I say they are no better than the Taliban. (Spit)
Crap like this is why military recruiting is at the lowest levels since WWII. My family’s military history goes back to the Revolutionary War and I recently told my son to NOT let my grandsons join this woke-ass, Rainbow Red-Army.
They're naming an aircraft carrier after him.
“Why not name a naval base after Doris Miller? Where’s the Army or Air Force base named after this man:”
Navy bases are not named after people. Their names come from the geographic name for where they are located. The Pearl Harbor Naval Base is at Pearl Harbor HI. The Norfolk Navy Base is in Norfolk Virginia. Etc etc. Doris Miller was a sailor, why would the army or air force name a base after a sailor.
Of course he was.
That is a really good point. The Army names it's helicopters after tribes.
I’m torn on this.
On one side of my family, I am descended from Free Soilers. My late grandfather was NOT supportive of naming army bases, monuments, etc. after rebel slavers (his term).
He found it an insult to those who fought and died wearing the blue. I remember he thought it would be a like French base being named “Ft Rommel” or something like that.
In the same line, we have family that served in the Indian Wars. There used to be a lot of bases and military equipment named after the various tribes. Over the last 30 years, most of those are gone now and with it, the memory of those conflicts.
Slavery is a stain on the nation, and one it cost a lot of blood to remove. But we need to move on.
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