on Memorial day, real NYT headline: "Why Does the Military Celebrate White Supremacy? Let's rename bases for American heroes, not racist traitors"

[yidnar]

STAY ON THE ******* TOPIC

sorry .... you are right ! we should honor all of our veterans ! and it takes a scumbag coward to disrespect them ! we honor our veterans for deeds done in service ...we do not honor them for their political views ,religion , or personal civilian life .... we honor them for their service to our country done in uniform !

 

[Dr Grump]

STAY ON THE ******* TOPIC

Post a link that doesn't have a pay wall so we can then make an informed comment. I don't comment on headlines.

 

[Asclepias]

STAY ON TOPIC, NUMBSKULLS!

The US in inherently racist. Thats why we still have bases and other areas named after traitors and bitches from the confederate.

 

[basquebromance]

STAY ON THE ******* TOPIC

Post a link that doesn't have a pay wall so we can then make an informed comment. I don't comment on headlines.

why not!

New York Times on Memorial Day Weekend: 'Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?'

The New York Times published an editorial on Memorial Day weekend asking: "Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?"

www.breitbart.com

 

[basquebromance]

the NYT are commies, of course they hate the American military!

 

[whitehall]

If your life is spent viewing society through the prism of racism you can find fuel for your anger anywhere. FDR imprisoned American citizens without due process and he appointed a former KKK member to cover his racist ass. LBJ used the N word freely. JFK used the FBI to dig up dirt on MLK and illegally tap his phone. Robert E. Lee was a kindly old gentleman compared to many 20th century democrat politicians. Let go of your anger and respect tradition especially on Memorial Day.

 

[Asclepias]

If your life is spent viewing society through the prism of racism you can find fuel for your anger anywhere. FDR imprisoned American citizens without due process and he appointed a former KKK member to cover his racist ass. LBJ used the N word freely. JFK used the FBI to dig up dirt on MLK and illegally tap his phone. Robert E. Lee was a kindly old gentleman compared to many 20th century democrat politicians. Let go of your anger and respect tradition especially on Memorial Day.

Rob Lee was a ***** and a traitor that should have shot. Instead he was honored which shows just how deep racism goes in the US..

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Who is surprised by another democrat endorsing censorship and book-burning? It is the MO of the Marxist-hijacked DNC.

 

[lennypartiv]

Who is surprised by another democrat endorsing censorship and book-burning? It is the MO of the Marxist-hijacked DNC.

Did you see how liberal Democrats threw a fit when a shopper wore a protective mask as requested by the store?

 

[whitehall]

If your life is spent viewing society through the prism of racism you can find fuel for your anger anywhere. FDR imprisoned American citizens without due process and he appointed a former KKK member to cover his racist ass. LBJ used the N word freely. JFK used the FBI to dig up dirt on MLK and illegally tap his phone. Robert E. Lee was a kindly old gentleman compared to many 20th century democrat politicians. Let go of your anger and respect tradition especially on Memorial Day.

Rob Lee was a ***** and a traitor that should have shot. Instead he was honored which shows just how deep racism goes in the US..

Union Lt. Robert Lee led the capture of crazy abolitionist John Brown at Harper's Ferry who was subsequently hanged. Lee's loyalty was to the Old Dominion rather than the weak (at the time) federal government. After the war Lee became so respected as the dean of Washington College that they named it after him. Meanwhile Grant presided over the most corrupt administration in history.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

That many American military men hailed and still hail from southern states, and fought in wars both before and after the Civil War, should make it less necessary for naval ships and military bases to be named after Southern Civil War generals.

The profound legacy of slavery — and of the world’s only modern Civil War fought for race slavery, and of the following century of Jim Crow racism and forced segregation — this terrible historical legacy hangs as a heavy burden on our nation as a whole. It remains even today embedded in our national culture in more ways than in mere statues or the names of bases. Though the NYT article may be very flawed (I can’t read it behind the pay wall), it is certainly appropriate to raise and ponder this issue on this Memorial Day.

After all, do we not still pride ourselves on being a nation that opposes despotism and slavery? That strives for a “rebirth of freedom”? That even at its foundation, with all its many contradictions, nevertheless sought to base itself on an enlightened idea that “all men are created equal”?

 

[lennypartiv]

That many American military men hailed and still hail from southern states, and fought in wars both before and after the Civil War, should make it less necessary for naval ships and military bases to be named after Southern Civil War generals.

The profound legacy of slavery, of the world’s only modern Civil War fought for race slavery, of the following century of Jim Crow and forced segregation — this terrible historical legacy hangs as a heavy burden on our nation as a whole. It remains even today embedded in our national culture in more ways than in mere statues or the names of bases. Though the NYT article may be very flawed (I can’t read it behind the pay wall), it is certainly appropriate to raise and ponder this issue on this Memorial Day.

After all, do we not still pride ourselves on being a nation that opposes despotism and slavery? That strives for a “rebirth of freedom”? That even at its foundation, with all its many contradictions, nevertheless sought to base itself on an enlightened idea that “all men are created equal”?

All men are created equal? Thanks for the laugh, I needed one.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

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[whitehall]

A generation of pop culture historically impaired dummies have been brought up to hate the confederate flag which existed for barely five years while the flags that flew off slave ships for the other two hundred years of the dreaded institution were the Union Jack, French and Spanish ensigns and sadly the American Flag. North east whaling ships were converted to slave ships when the whales got scarce and the industrial northeast depended on cotton grown in slave plantations in the South. Hypocrites in New York City lynched every Black face they could find to the nearest light post during the draft riots of 1863. The point is that Robert E. Lee wasn't your only enemy.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

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[RoshawnMarkwees]

If your life is spent viewing society through the prism of racism you can find fuel for your anger anywhere. FDR imprisoned American citizens without due process and he appointed a former KKK member to cover his racist ass. LBJ used the N word freely. JFK used the FBI to dig up dirt on MLK and illegally tap his phone. Robert E. Lee was a kindly old gentleman compared to many 20th century democrat politicians. Let go of your anger and respect tradition especially on Memorial Day.

Rob Lee was a ***** and a traitor that should have shot. Instead he was honored which shows just how deep racism goes in the US..

Union Lt. Robert Lee led the capture of crazy abolitionist John Brown at Harper's Ferry who was subsequently hanged. Lee's loyalty was to the Old Dominion rather than the weak (at the time) federal government. After the war Lee became so respected as the dean of Washington College that they named it after him. Meanwhile Grant presided over the most corrupt administration in history.

And don’t forget that Lee was educated at West Point.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

The point is that Robert E. Lee wasn't your only enemy.

Robert E. Lee wasn’t our only enemy.

 

[basquebromance]

MAKE EVERY DAY MEMORIAL DAY!

 

[TheParser]

I, too, would never pay a cent to read that alleged "newspaper," but the writer need not worry: sooner rather than later, all military bases named for generals of the Confederacy will be renamed for more politically correct generals or even non-generals.

When President Biden takes office come January, maybe Vice President Harris/Abrams will ask him to rename those forts as one of his first acts.

The writer of that article should calm down. His wish will soon become a reality.

 

[basquebromance]

ALL GAVE SOME! SOME GAVE ALL!