Then you would brand the following individuals' racists and remove them from any celebration of their contributions to this country, change names nation-wide, remove monuments, close displays?
Andrew Jackson | Martha Washington |
Andrew Johnson | P. T. Barnum |
Benjamin Franklin | Patrick Henry |
Dolly Madison | Peter Faneuil |
Ezra Taft Benson (Native American Slaves) | Philip Schuyler |
Francis Scott Key | Richard Henry Lee |
George Washington | Stephen F. Austin |
James K. Polk | Thomas Jefferson |
James Madison | Ulysses S. Grant |
James Monroe | William Henry Harrison |
John Hancock | Zachary Taylor |
John Jay | |
I don't think it's as "cut and dried" as it's being portrayed nationally. I look at Fort Bragg...opened in 1918 as a posting for artillery. The commander then named it for an army artillery expert and West Point graduate. I'm not prescient enough to know if there was any alterior motive in the naming but be that as it may, I have never met anyone in my career that said "I'm based at Fort Braxton Bragg." Folks say, in my experience, "I'm at Bragg..." or, "I'm at FayetteNam." I truly wonder how many people today would even make that connection were it not in the news.
Just my humble thoughts and opinion which, here in AZ with $1.08 will get you an XL soda at Circle K.
Steve