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You think they would have looked at the policy more closely before cheering their fearless leader for restoring the names of military bases named in honor of Confederate generals. Instead, the Confederate heritage community has, once again, been made to look like fools.
When will they learn that Donald Trump has no interest in honoring their Confederate ancestors unless it benefits his political or business interests. He is and will always remain an opportunist. His views on the display of the Confederate battle flag have been all over the place since 2015 and he even placed a historical marker on his Virginia golf course commemorating a fake Civil War battle.
Back in February, organizations like the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Virginia Flaggers criticized President Trump for restoring the name Fort Bragg, because it honored a completely different person, who just happened to share the last name of Confederate general Braxton Bragg.
What Trump announced yesterday is just a continuation of this policy, but it looks like the Virginia Flaggers and their followers haven’t caught on yet. Here are just a few of the roughly 1,100 comments that have been posted on their Facebook page.
Thank you President Trump for bringing back our Great Southern Heroes names-!!!
Thank you President Trump . You’re a true American and the Greatest President we have ever had.
Becouse presudent trump is onnly brave Men spouk true America god bles president.
I love this man.!!! He JUST needs folks to be on his side… He can fix it all.! I believe this in my heart.! Deo Vindice.
Not everyone has been deceived, including none other than Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Who is the genius, who figured out how to restore the name of Fort A.P. Hill without violating the law banning the naming of military bases after Confederate generals?
I am going to be laughing about this all day today.
As I pointed out back in February, the restoration of these military base names has absolutely nothing to do with honoring the Confederacy or Confederate military leaders. The Virginia Flaggers and other Confederate heritage groups should no better than to place their trust in a corrupt Northern businessman.
Isn’t this exactly the profile of the ‘evil and corrupt Yankee’ that we are told their ancestors were fighting against during the Civil War? LOL
Of course, what is striking is the hypocrisy behind their outrage over the renaming of these military bases. It should come as no surprise that no one in this community is speaking out against the proposal to rename naval vessels that honor some of this nation’s most important freedom fighters.
Mr. [Harvey] Milk is one of several trailblazers whose name has been identified for possible removal from naval vessels. According to a senior official familiar with a memo from John Phelan, the secretary of the Navy, they include Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, another Supreme Court justice, who became a feminist icon; Harriet Tubman, who, after being born into slavery, became an abolitionist instrumental in the Underground Railroad; Lucy Stone, a prominent abolitionist and suffragist; Medgar Evers, a civil-rights leader who was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan; Cesar Chavez, a labor leader; and Dolores Huerta, another labor leader.
Somehow this does not rise to the level of ‘erasing history.’
Harvey Milk served nearly four years in the Navy. He was discharged at the rank of a junior lieutenant after being threatened with a court martial because of his sexual orientation.
In 1943, Medgar Evers dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army Reserve Corps during World War II. He unloaded weapons, vehicles, and supplies from transport ships. After D-Day, Evers and his 325th Port Company went into France, where he served in the all-Black 3677th Quartermaster Company and 958th Quartermaster Service Company. He was part of the Red Ball Express, a truck convoy system primarily composed of African American Soldiers that supplied Allied forces.
I guess the only honor and history that is worth defending is of those people who chose to make war against the United States rather than those who have defended it or stood up for its principle of equality.
For now, I am going to relish the fact that these people got exactly what they deserved.