Trump To Announce On US Army's Birthday, The Renaming Of Bases To People Who Killed Soldiers In The US Army

[Deplorable Yankee]

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Many of those bases located in the South were given Confederate names in the middle of the 20th Century, at a time when southern states were still restricting the voting and assembly rights of Black Americans through Jim Crow laws.

MSN

Next he plans on renaming Reagan airport to Hitler airfield, and Pearl Harbor to Hirohito Beach.

You guys do realize the war is over ....

 

[meaner gene]

These bases have had those names for over 100 years. If you are bellyaching now, take a laxativel

Those names were based on America's racist past. To cling to them, is to perpetuate America's structural racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offensive-place-names-once-dotted-the-us-landscape/2011/10/04/gIQAeGaKLL_story.html

Offensive place names once dotted the U.S. landscape

A search of the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) turned up at least 24 names from Alaska to New York of lakes, creeks, points and capes that once bore the name "Niggerhead,"

Those names, some offensive, were then codified in federal maps
This is mainly because during the first half of the 1900s, topographers were sent out to name
locations and relied on local input.
and served as a snapshot of racial attitudes, Monmonier said.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Those names were based on America's racist past. To cling to them, is to perpetuate America's structural racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offensive-place-names-once-dotted-the-us-landscape/2011/10/04/gIQAeGaKLL_story.html

Offensive place names once dotted the U.S. landscape

A search of the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) turned up at least 24 names from Alaska to New York of lakes, creeks, points and capes that once bore the name "Niggerhead,"

Those names, some offensive, were then codified in federal maps
This is mainly because during the first half of the 1900s, topographers were sent out to name
locations and relied on local input.
and served as a snapshot of racial attitudes, Monmonier said.

Ohhhh. Ooooooh. It be de Wayyyccciiissssmmm wabbit hidin in de woodpile.

No one cares.

 

[Paddlefoot]

 

[Missourian]

Those names were based on America's racist past. To cling to them, is to perpetuate America's structural racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offensive-place-names-once-dotted-the-us-landscape/2011/10/04/gIQAeGaKLL_story.html

Offensive place names once dotted the U.S. landscape

A search of the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) turned up at least 24 names from Alaska to New York of lakes, creeks, points and capes that once bore the name "Niggerhead,"

Those names, some offensive, were then codified in federal maps
This is mainly because during the first half of the 1900s, topographers were sent out to name
locations and relied on local input.
and served as a snapshot of racial attitudes, Monmonier said.

They never changed. The may have changed on the sign, but soldiers will call them the old names forever out of spite.

Ask me how I know.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Trump is not renaming bases after Confederates.

Army restores the names of seven bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden

Seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders are all reverting back to their original names.

apnews.com

Fort A.P. Hill will be named to commemorate three different people: Medal of Honor recipients Lt. Col. Edward Hill, 1st Sgt. Robert A. Pinn and Pvt. Bruce Anderson for heroism during the Civil War.

Fort Pickett will now honor 1st Lt. Vernon W. Pickett. He received the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during World War II when he fired grenades while pinned down by enemy machine gun fire and destroyed enemy positions. He was captured, then escaped and rejoined his unit, but was killed in action.

Fort Lee will now be named for Pvt. Fitz Lee, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Spanish-American War
Fort Gordon will now be named for Medal of Honor recipient Master Sgt. Gary I. Gordon. He was honored for his valor during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.

Fort Hood will now honor Col. Robert B. Hood. He received the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during World War I, when he directed artillery fire in France

Fort Polk will now honor Silver Star recipient Gen. James H. Polk. Then-Col. Polk was honored for gallantry during

 

[Grumblenuts]

Trump is not renaming bases after Confederates.

Simply coincidence x 7.