Underneath the Biden administration, the Division of Protection introduced it will be renaming a number of Military bases named after Accomplice troopers. So clearly that didn’t fly with the Trump administration, which has said its intent to revive these bases’ former names however will identify them after completely different troopers with the identical final identify. Louisiana has joined the restoration initiative by renaming Fort Beauregard in honor of the slave-owning father of the unique Accomplice basic it was named for.
Sigh…this nation is so dumb, y’all.
Based on the Louisiana Illuminator, Fort Beauregard is now named after Capt. Jacques Toutant Beauregard, who was a slave proprietor, member of the Louisiana Militia, and father of Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the Fort’s former namesake. Gen. Beauregard was most notable for launching the Accomplice assault on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, which is extensively thought of to have began the American Civil Struggle.
The fort was renamed in 2023 to the Louisiana Nationwide Guard Coaching Middle, Pineville. Whereas the identify lacked aptitude, it was actually much less racist than its prior and present namesakes. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry introduced the renaming in a social media put up with an AI-generated picture of a headstone that claims “wokeism.”
It’s like these individuals are allergic to not being corny as all get out.
“By restoring the identify Camp Beauregard, we honor a legacy of braveness and repair that dates again over two centuries,” Landry wrote within the put up. “Let this even be a lesson that we should always all the time give reverence to historical past and never be fast to so simply condemn or erase the lifeless, lest we and our instances be judged arbitrarily by future generations.”
I, Joe Jurado, of sound thoughts and physique, give future generations full permission to each decide and condemn me if I do some Accomplice/Kanye/Candice Owens-type nonsense. Whereas I don’t see that taking place, and definitely don’t intend for that to occur, I’m additionally fairly certain Kanye circa 2005 wouldn’t have predicted he’d be a full-fledged Nazi in 20 years.
Restoring Accomplice names for bases and plane carriers has unsurprisingly change into a sticking level for this deeply unserious administration. Fox Information host turned Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth is adamantly towards renaming military bases with Accomplice namesakes, however that indignation doesn’t appear to hold over to Navy ships named after civil rights activists.
In June, Hegseth ordered the U.S.S. Harvey Milk, named after one of many first brazenly homosexual elected U.S. officers, to be renamed. The ship was a John Lewis-class oiler, which is a category of ship named after outstanding civil rights activists. The Division of Protection is reportedly trying into renaming a number of John Lewis-class oilers, together with the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and USNS Harriet Tubman.
Hegseth’s shameless need to make use of his place of energy to have a good time white supremacy is working into some Congressional pushback. Democrats and a few Republicans within the Home Armed Companies Committee pushed by an modification of their annual coverage invoice to stop the Pentagon from utilizing any of the 2026 finances to rename protection installations after Accomplice figures.
A regulation was beforehand handed in Congress stopping navy installations from being named after Accomplice figures. Hegseth exploited a loophole to that regulation by naming the bases after troopers with names just like the Accomplice troopers they have been initially named after.
I inform you, if this administration put the identical quantity of effort into really fixing the issues dealing with the working class as they did into discovering authorized loopholes to be racist, we would really be getting someplace.
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