The GOP’s complicity in the assault on Confederate heritage
An Exercise in Dodging Accountability
An Exercise in Dodging Accountability
When I read the Naming Commission’s final report, which dripped with contempt for Confederate heritage, I was angry…but not that worried. The Naming Commission, for those of y’all who don’t follow Confederate heritage closely, was created through one of hundreds of provisions tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2021. It created a commission whose mission was to identify and recommend the disposition of any Confederate symbol, of any sort, on any Department of Defense facility. Its primary focus, as the commission’s name implies, was to come up with new names for Army bases named after former Confederate officers.
The commission came up with new names…and it did much, much more than that. Its recommendations led to statues being pulled down, street names being changed, paintings taken off library and museum walls, names erased from memorial walls and even pavers pulled up from memorial walks. As Dr. Seuss would say, the heroes of the Naming Commission hunted down every last can of Confederate Who Hash on DOD property! And the commission recommended that ALL of them be removed.
So, as the great-grandson of a Confederate cavalryman, why wasn’t I too worried? The U.S. government started implementing the recommendations of the Naming Commission in late 2022 and early 2023. In January of 2023, the GOP took control of the House of Representatives. When the GOP took over the House gavel, the vast majority of the recommended changes hadn’t been implemented yet. No base names had…
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