Medgar Evers' family fights efforts to strip his name from Navy vessel

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 11:34 AM EDT, June 12, 2025


A week after Pentagon leaders announced their intention to possibly rename the USNS Medgar Evers, christened for the World War II veteran and civil rights leader, his family urged the Department of Defense and the Navy to reverse their position.

The ship is one of eight vessels named after activists – among them Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Harriet Tubman – that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to rebrand in a large offensive against “wokeness” and diversity, equity and inclusion in the military to reestablish the “warrior ethos.”

This could be the second time Evers’ name is erased. Although President Donald Trump called Medgar Evers a “great American hero” at the 2017 opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, his name was removed last March from a site on the Arlington National Cemetery Website, which featured a section honoring Black Americans who fought in the nation’s wars.

“Renaming the USNS Medgar Evers is not only malicious — it is despicable,” said Evers’ daughter, Reena Evers-Everette. “As my mother said, ‘This is an injustice to a man who fought for his country both at home and abroad.’”

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Silent Type]

2. Hope they are successful, otherwise trump's henchmen will name it after racist that shot him.

[Initech]

3. We have some truly evil fucking psychopaths in charge.

Fuck them and they can shove their ill gotten power up their asses!

[LT Barclay]

4. They are trying to inflame racial tensions. Hoping that we'll actually fight each other, which they will sit back and

watch and then at the end declare martial law. Which goes along with all the other ways they are trying to kill most of us.
It is "The Final Solution" according to the 0.1%.

[Paladin]

5. No sense of history, absolutely no sense of shame.

I'm a few years younger than trump, and I certainly remember the murder of Medgar Evers. If this lawless, piece-of-shit regime follows through on taking Evers' name from that ship, the next administration should promptly restore it. Same for Harvey Milk and the rest. Beyond disgusting. Democratic leadership better be taking good notes and formulating plans to counter this travesty.

And Pete Hegseth: Fuck you where you breathe.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. We should join them.

It is an outrage. A traitor is erasing history to serve Putin, Dixie and the NAZIs Evers fought in war.

[electric_blue68]

7. It was a couple of years before I was watching the news, but I became aware of him after

the fact, then his widow as she carried on his work. Plus more Civil Rights activists.

Damn drumphf and his racism. Hopefully the Evers family can win out.