As America celebrates Juneteenth, DeSantis & Pence want to honor a Confederate general
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As we all celebrate.
Despicable
As America celebrates Juneteenth, DeSantis & Pence want to honor a Confederate general
Despite the president’s hope that Americans can “celebrate progress,” two 2024 GOP presidential candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, are attempting to take our nation backward by vowing to rename a military base in North Carolina in honor of Braxton Bragg, a slave-owning, former Confederate general.
Fort Bragg became Fort Liberty earlier this month as part of a push to remove the names of Confederate leaders from military bases in the wake of protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida with former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Ocala, Florida, in October 2020.
Vowing to revert back to the name of Fort Bragg, DeSantis declared June 9 at North Carolina’s GOP state convention: “It’s an iconic name and iconic base, and we’re not gonna let political correctness run amok in North Carolina.” At the same Republican gathering, Pence echoed that pledge a day later, stating, “We will end the political correctness in the hallways of the Pentagon, and North Carolina will once again be home to Fort Bragg.”
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@Jolly said in As America celebrates Juneteenth, DeSantis & Pence want to honor a Confederate general:
While you're at it, bring back Fort Hood. And Fort Polk.
Of course you'd go with those two.