There are several U.S. military bases, entirely in the South, named after Confederate Generals. These bases were named to appease the democrats and former Confederates who who ran the post-Civil War South and have been in place for generations. Now that Black Lives Matter is calling the shots to destroy all American history, democrats are screaming at President Trump and calling him a racist for refusing to rename these bases. Barack Obama, a democrat, was president for 8 years and renamed exactly zero of these bases but for some reason wasn’t racist.
One of the off-shoots of the Black Lives Matter hostile take-over of our cities has been a cultural and historic purge not unlike a communist revolution. Statues of Christopher Columbus, for some reason, have been hardest hit, but they also want to rename anything connected to slaveholders or the Confederacy. Democrats are taking their cues from BLM so they are demanding that all military bases named after Confederate officers be changed.
President Trump doesn’t take his marching orders from leftist street scum so he was resistant to this idea:
It has been suggested that we should rename as many as 10 of our Legendary Military Bases, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Benning in Georgia, etc. These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
…history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
…Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2020
Naturally democrats are saying that President Trump is a white supremacist because he won’t change the names of these bases. Also naturally, they forget how many times a democrat was in the White House and also didn’t change the names of these bases. Liberal rage is about projection, not self-reflection.
Here are the 10 U.S. Military bases named after Confederate officers and the years they were established.
Camp Beauregard near Pineville, Louisiana, named for Louisiana native and Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. 1917
Fort Benning, near Columbus, Georgia, named after Henry L. Benning, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. 1909
Fort Bragg in North Carolina, named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. 1918
Fort Gordon near Grovetown, Georgia, named in honor of John Brown Gordon, who was a major general in the Confederate army. 1941
Fort A.P. Hill near Bowling Green, Virginia, named for Virginia native and Confederate Lieutenant General A. P. Hill. 1940
Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, named after Confederate General John Bell Hood, who is best known for commanding the Texas Brigade during the American Civil War. 1942
Fort Lee in Prince George County, Virginia, named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. 1917
Fort Pickett near Blackstone, Virginia, named for Confederate General George Pickett. 1941
Fort Polk near Leesville, Louisiana, named in honor of the Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, an Episcopal Bishop and Confederate General. 1941
Fort Rucker in Dale County, Alabama, named for Confederate General Edmund Rucker. 1942
Since the first of these bases was established in 1909 there have been 8 democrats in the White House, serving a total of 14 terms. Not a single one of them ever tried to rename any of these bases, including Barack Obama.
Those Confederate officers were democrats. The bases named after them were done so because democrats insisted, No democrat has ever attempt to change the names of any of these bases. And yet somehow: Republicans are racist.
