It's time to rename bases for American heroes, not racist traitors.
Institutions which have wrapped themselves in Confederacy ideology without consequence were put on notice. P ublic sentiment had shifted. The commandant of the United States Marine Corps tacitly deferred to this new reality last month by banning public display of the Confederate flag at Marine installations.
This toxic legacy clings to the 10 US military installations across the South named for Confederate Army officers reflecting a federal embrace of white supremacy poisonously expressed in military installations where black servicemen were deliberately placed under the command of white Southerners
This same toxic legacy clings to the 10 United States military installations across the South that were named for Confederate Army officers during the first half of the 20th century.
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