The Daily Social Distancing Show: Confederate Symbols Are Coming Down

[Rhiannon12866]

Confederate monuments and flags are coming down as the nation reckons with its racial past, but Trump refuses to rename military bases named after Confederate figureheads.

[TomSlick]

1. I can count 10 Army posts (please don't call them bases) named for confederate generals.

I'm working from memory, there may be more.

I know the political history of naming Army installations after confederate generals to obtain the support of southern politicians for the seizing of otherwise valueless land in the south for Army installations during WW I and WW II build ups. The time has come to change the names. US Army installations should not be named for traitors.

The names should be changed - now.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I believe it was Colbert tonight who said naming them after confederates made no sense at that time

Since this was decades after that terrible war and no one who served then still survived, so what was the point? Thanks for the explanation.

[TomSlick]

3. Naming Army installations after confederate generals was a cheap ploy

to obtain the support of southern politicians. (The installations are all in the south.)

However, neither the long ago political expediency or "history" is a sufficient cause for maintaining the names. Surely we can do better than naming Army installations after traitors. Change the names!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I sure agree, it's long, long past time!