I’ve mentioned it earlier than, and I’ll say it one million occasions over: For a celebration that locations a lot significance on the historical past of Democrats supporting slavery, Republicans positive spend numerous time combating tooth and nail to honor the Confederacy.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump introduced that he’ll restore the unique names of seven army bases honoring Accomplice officers. Trump made the announcement at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, which grew to become Fort Bragg once more in February after Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth made it amongst his high priorities to vary the fort’s title again to at least one that honors the time in America when Black individuals knew their place was below a white slave proprietor’s heel or on the finish of his whip. (I imply, Hegseth didn’t say all that, however none of them are ever prepared to confess that’s precisely what they’re searching for to commemorate.)
“We’re additionally going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee,” mentioned Trump, who has expressed contempt over the renaming of the bases quite a few occasions previously as a result of he additionally loves the immortalization of pro-slavery warriors. “We received numerous battles out of these forts. It’s no time to vary. And I’m superstitious, you already know? I prefer to preserve it going.”
Nah, Trump, that’s not superstition — you, Hegseth and your whole ilk are white suprema-sticious, however that’s about it.
Hegseth made an analogous argument to Trump’s again in January when he was campaigning to vary Fort Liberty again to Fort Bragg, insisting that, for no matter cause, altering the title adjustments your complete historical past of every thing that ever occurred at that army compound.
“We should always change it again by the best way,” he mentioned on a podcast. “We should always change it again. We should always change it again. We should always change it again, as a result of legacy issues. My uncle served at Bragg. I served at Bragg. It breaks a generational hyperlink.”
In actuality, although, the restoration of Fort Bragg’s title was so arbitrary that most individuals didn’t even discover {that a} completely different Bragg carries the namesake.
When Fort Liberty’s title was scrapped and reverted again to the unique, Fort Bragg was not meant to honor Accomplice Basic Braxton Bragg. As a substitute, it was introduced that Fort Bragg is now Fort Roland L. Bragg, named for a non-public firstclass with the seventeenth Airborne Division and World Battle II veteran who died in 1999.
In reality, it was so essential that Ronald be honored as the brand new Bragg of the fort that his household wasn’t even notified by the federal government. Bragg’s daughter, Debra Sokoll, advised NPR she didn’t know in regards to the honor till it had already occurred and reporters known as her asking about it.
So, what about Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon and the remaining? Are Trump and Hegseth about to start out scouring army knowledge bases to search out various Picketts and Polks to allow them to faux it’s all about preserving the model, versus preserving the legacy of Black individuals being torn from their households, ripped from their heritages, thought to be human property and confined to intergenerational servitude below menace of terror, torture and brutally violent loss of life?
However hey, your complete Trump administration has been serving as one big ode to white supremacy since January anyway; we’d as effectively make the army “nice” once more too, proper?
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