McConnell makes his first public statements about military bases named for Confederates:— Lindsay Wise (@lindsaywise) June 16, 2020
"After my dad fought in WW2 he actually worked for a couple years at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga. and I can assure you none of us knew who Gordon was..." (a Major General in Confederate Army)
I don't know who most of the figures on the giant statue to the Confederacy (and the Lost Cause) on the grounds of the Texas Capitol are, either. Not even sure how much connection to slavery they had, whether they are historical or merely representational, figures.
Still find the statue offensive. And because I don't know who Gordon of "Fort Gordon" was doesn't mean other people don't, and find great offense at the honoring of such men. (I still want my high school to change it's name from "Robert E. Lee," but that fight ended 48 years ago when they at least changed the school mascot from the "Rebels" and dropped all the Confederate iconography, including a Confederate battle flag the size of half a football field (no, it never flew; it was borne out on the field on the shoulders of happy young white boys who mostly appreciated how offensive it was to the black students newly brought to the school thanks to Brown v. Board finally catching up with us 17 years late).).
(How Proust got along with parentheses is something that has always been beyond my comprehension.)
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