And as a Historian, that you claim to be, you should be aware that reparations paid to former slave owners, black Codes and Jim Crow laws were enabled to make whites feel better. Segregationist and White Supremacy ruled with an iron fist. And those memories are STILL FRESH in the minds of many black Americans. And I know a white man who said he’s fine with renaming these military bases.

Mr. Williams I like to know were you upset or was your parents mad because Jim Crow was lessen a little?

If you do the research (the Army staff paperwork on the naming of many Army installations still exist), you discover that bases were named for Confederate generals to gain the support of southern Congressmen and local populations to build and expand Army installations in the south. Why the south? Because the climate was conducive to year-round military training.

It was never an intention of the Army to “honor” the Confederacy. It all cynically political on the Arny’s part, a political game to gain Congressional support.

When I went to school we were taught that the bases were named to honor service in the Mexican War of the 1840’s and to facilitate healing the nation from the divide that still existed. As for the rest the Dem leadership still wants the divide to fool the peole.

Remember that after he surrendered, Robert E. Lee told his soldiers to go home and be good citizens of the United States. In my 21 years of military and 21 years of civilian service to the Army, I do not recall any black soldier telling me he had a problem being stationed at Fort Benning (for example) – in fact they took pride in it. Does it not show more progress that a future Secretary of Defense and Army four-star General who is black began his career as a cadet housed in Robert E. Lee Barracks at West Point? And I would like the critics of the installations named for former Confederates to answer me how does changing the names enhance military readiness? They can’t!

I would bet that most of the loudest critics ever wore the uniform or have any affiliation with the military – other living behind its security – that they have see a political agenda to demand the purging names of people long dead. By their logic, 150 years after this nation finally abolishes the institutional sin of abortion and the abortion-industrial complex, will there by a demand to rename buildings, parks, highways and bridges named after Presidents Clinton and Obama, Vice President Harris, Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi for supporting the killing of babies in the womb under the euphemism of “choice”?