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The report from the panel, the Naming Commission, which was created by Congress last year and tasked with providing recommendations for the removal or renaming of Defense Department assets that commemorate the Confederacy, included multiple suggestions regarding paintings, statues and other items at West Point as well as at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
But the commission said that recommending the removal of the plaque fell outside of its scope because the Ku Klux Klan, founded by former Confederate soldiers, emerged after the Civil War. The panel flagged the item for review in its report, and included a picture.
A spokeswoman for West Point said the academy is reviewing the recommendations made by the panel and will collaborate with the Defense Department and the U.S. Army to implement the approved changes.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/nyregion/west-point-confederate-symbols-kkk.html
dchill
(38,489 posts)Sorry, Naming Commission, but this is a no-brainer if there ever was one.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)This should have been removed decades ago, if for no other reason that so many loyal graduates had died fighting the people that lost the war, and created this organization anyway.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,938 posts)Or so it appears to me.
ForgedCrank
(1,779 posts)Not that I'm doubting it, it's just really surprising that something like that has survived in a place like that for this long and not been removed already by now. A panel or commission shouldn't be required to make the decision to remove that garbage.
Girard442
(6,070 posts)The tour guide seemed to be inordinately proud that Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals were educated at West Point.
I swear, if Erwin Rommel had graduated West Point, they'd have a statue of him there.
orleans
(34,051 posts)absolutely DISGRACEFUL! west point holds some sort of sentimental crap to a fucking hate group?? to the fucking klan??????
get that piece of shit down NOW!
does west point get federal funding for anything? if they do that needs to stop right now