Fort Bragg Becomes “Fort Liberty,” Ditching Its Confederate Namesake

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Fort Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the country, officially became Fort Liberty on Friday, the first of nine military bases in the South that will ditch their confederate namesakes.

The renaming effort got underway after the murder of George Floyd sparked a reassessment of and backlash against the country’s memorials to the Confederacy. Congress passed a requirement to rename the bases, part of a larger defense bill, overriding the veto of then-President Donald Trump.

The Biden administration has approved new names for the bases. A commission is also tasked with renaming other military assets such as buildings, ships, and streets. All nine bases were built in former Confederate states during the Jim Crow era. According to the Washington Post, Fort Bragg was named in honor of Braxton Bragg, “a Confederate general who was relieved of command after losing the battle for Chattanooga in 1863, though he remained active in the rebel cause, serving as an adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.”

Fort Liberty is the only one of the nine bases renamed for an idea. The others will take on the names of individuals, including women and people of color. Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill, named for a Confederate general, will be renamed in honor of Mary Edwards Walker, an abolitionist and suffragist, and the first female surgeon during the Civil War. Fort Lee, named for Confederate Army commander Robert E. Lee, will become Fort Gregg-Adams, named for two Black officers. Arthur J. Gregg joined a segregated army during Jim Crow and rose to became a three-star general. He is still alive today at 95. Charity Adams led the first unit of Black women on an overseas tour during World War II.
Instead of Fort Liberty I think they should name it Fort Davis for Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. The first black General in the US Army. BTW Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Was the first black General in the US Air Force.
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Good.

Not in favor of those past US military officers that thought naming our southern bases after Traitors & losers, based on the myth of the “lost cause” was a good idea?


Especially Braxton Bragg - I don’t think he ever one a battle, and had a penchant for throwing away his men’s lives in needless, tactically futile frontal assaults. Maybe we should celebrate his incompetence; directly contributing to the loss of the western theater for the confederacy.
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Naming US military forts after traitors who took up arms against the US? Nah, we were never a white supremacist nation.

This is more than symbolic. After the Civil War we could have actually done the work to spread civil rights to freed blacks. But we didn't. And we've done this again and again as a nation -- keep the peace for dominant white America by abusing whatever weaker group we can (chattel slavery and the indigenous genocide are the bedrock of our country). I believe the reason we are headed for big trouble is because there is a generation that isn't willing to let that happen again. They don't want anyone left out. And the reactionary forces will not let that happen easily. I hope we don't wimp out again.

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cooper wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:34 pm Naming US military forts after traitors who took up arms against the US? Nah, we were never a white supremacist nation.

This is more than symbolic. After the Civil War we could have actually done the work to spread civil rights to freed blacks. But we didn't. And we've done this again and again as a nation -- keep the peace for dominant white America by abusing whatever weaker group we can (chattel slavery and the indigenous genocide are the bedrock of our country). I believe the reason we are headed for big trouble is because there is a generation that isn't willing to let that happen again. They don't want anyone left out. And the reactionary forces will not let that happen easily. I hope we don't wimp out again.
Agree. We are as always in the midst of it and unfortunately like before failing or leaving the job half done. The concept of the bill of rights being rights for all should have been clear from the start. We shouldn’t have to fight a civil war for each group of people that should naturally have all rights without question. Instead we conveniently exclude people and allow the bigots to define exclusions and create unjust laws.
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Finally time to stop catering and kow-towing to the traitors embracing "The Lost Cause".
Confederate Motorcycles got absorbed but they still use a neo-nazi-type symbol of red and black. The shitheads who owned it actually had a model called "NBF" for that psychopathic rebel general and KKK founder, Nathan Bedford Forrest, who would summarily execute captured Black Union soldiers.

IMHO, ALL the rebel generals from Lee on down should have been hanged, as well as any officers who refused to accept the surrender at Appomattox
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