Fort Polk La the latest target of liberal stupidity. The bases are not the property of liberal states but simply named after the same men who helped build this nation. It would be wise to think about repairing all the damage this liberal bunch of morons have caused over the past 50 years. If you like living in poverty then by all means vote for another one. They will lose power again and be in no position to continue this butchering of our culture and history. To target past leaders of southern states is about as stupid as declaring themselves as rulers for life. They have been trying for decades to stir up as much trouble as they can to sucker in more dumb votes and they even went as far as to break every law written while doing it. Is this why we pay them, to destroy our culture and history but yet they can't stop spending money we never had. I don't know who any of these unknown new people are that for some strange reason are all better than men that lived over 150 years ago. What great accomplishments have been achieved by democrats, the very same people who started the civil war. This is no more than another abuse of power and no one person or a few persons ever have the ability to rewrite or change our history. These people are simply criminals wearing expensive suits. Vote these morons out of office before they destroy something in your culture because they are ashamed and cannot shake the guilt. Fort Polk will always be Fort Polk to all of us still living that were stationed there. We served one nation while we were there and never instructed to hate anyone. Get these people out of our government before we are fighting another civil war to preserve our history and culture. The history belongs to all we southerners and we that live today owe absolutely nothing to any individual living today. Get on with your lives and stop being a tool for some fool. We have no leaders today we have a bunch of idiots who couldn't run a candy store much less a once powerful nation. They can't win an election today without stealing it or targeting their opponents. I will never ever vote for either a democrat or a republican who cares more about themselves than the responsibility they took on when they took their office. All these generals today are just pure garbage and I hope we never have to fight a war with any of them in charge of anything. Our government is in sad shape !!!
Rightly or wrongly, the name(s) changes of forts that were once confederate generals, was done, I think, to appease blacks. I don't know with any certainty, but I suspect that blacks feel that naming forts after confederate generals is a slap in their faces. ie; making heroes out of people who wanted to keep them slaves forever. Moreover, by appeasing blacks the Dems gain more black votes. Hence, more power. Also, the Dems may hope that blacks will eventually forget that the Republicans (Pres. Lincoln) were the ones that freed the slaves. If we look at statues of famous Americans, we see that they are , in fact, our heroes. :Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson, Franklin, etc etc.
I agree that's exactly why it's being done, but I'd venture to say that most black people really don't give a lot of thought to the names of military installations...exactly like most white people. It's just not something that anyone puts much thought into except a few vocal hysterics who love to dig up crap to be "triggered" by and cause more dissension. In all honesty, I had absolutely no idea who Bragg or Polk were. Now that I do know, I still don't care... it's just a name. George Washington owned slaves. Is he going to be erased as the first president of the US, and all those "Washington High" schools, etc. renamed? So ridiculous.
It takes a very long time to completely change the thinking of an entire society. When we were born, it was unthinkable for women to be assigned in a combat role. Now, there are not only female fighter jet pilots, but there are now female admirals in charge of war ships. Once, there were no female street cops much less female Chiefs of Police. Today, no one thinks anything about it. The same goes for whites who still hate blacks. Yes, there is still anti-black thinking among certain groups, but their numbers are decreasing. Will the name changes of forts have any impact on peoples thinking . Will it help heal ?
I've learned win lose or draw the way to deal with these issues is at the polls. For white people it is a losing proposition. There was for a very long time real reason to be unhappy with the status quo, today or even 54 years ago that was removed. The only problems in the US in that era was from the democratic ran states and cities, just as it still is today. It will not change and the chances of winning someone's mind on a vote issue is next to none. I love to watch all these youtube videos of the police trying to do simple traffic stops and then all the hell and abuse by people that are what they call boat captains. People have been allowed to sit there and refuse to obey the laws or request to hand over documents like license and insurance, they will sit there and run their mouths for an hour only to either try and and attempt to drive off at high speed or get a chunk of their behinds chewed out by a hungry dog who is tired of riding around all day long. Then of course there are those that can't breathe after they just ran over someone at high speed during a chase for a ticket that would have been a misdemeanor. I can't begin to imagine living in this country without police, we would all have to take watches to keep the thugs from stealing the food from our ice boxes. I have met a few real stinkers of policemen but not that many. They will always be there in a department somewhere in the USA. Houston even had Police Chief in 1970 that was charged with paying for a hit on someone. His name was Lee Carol but I cannot find any record listing of all the past chiefs of Houston. That name is stuck in my mind so I'll go with that. In those days Houston Police were dealing out an old fashioned ass whupping before you ever got to the police station. They all carried throw down weapons to protect themselves after shooting someone. It changed when they killed a young drug addict that drove a new custom van out the showroom window of Gulf Freeway Dodge. They tossed a throw down on him and it was proven to be a gun from the police property room and all kinds of hell broke loose after that. That ended all throw down weapons carrying by Houston Police. The way I look at it if you aren't breaking the laws then the chances of being shot or abused by police is pretty slim to none.
I think that this is just one of the things that they say they are doing to pacify black people, but it is not really because of that reason. After all, they said it was the reason for taking the Aunt Jemima picture off of the syrup, too, and all that did was take a famous black person completely out of history, and most people will now never know that she was a real person, and very successful. She does not portray a slave, but a smart woman who did very well in life. Even the supposed black holidays are the same kind of a “left-handed compliment. Look at today, which they call “Juneteenth”. This is something that has only been talked about for a few years, and the word is a corruption that sounds illiterate, like someone one who had no education would ever use as a word; but now it is used as a fine example of something black people celebrate. They have done this same thing with native Americans, who never seemed to mind being called Indians; but they are changing and wiping it history. As @Ken Anderson likes to say about the Land of Lakes butter , “they got rid of the Indian and kept the land”.
Our history is intentionally being destroyed in order to substitute a new reality. It has nothing to do with the feelings of blacks...they are being used. It doesn't take all that long to change a society, all you have to do is overwhelm us. Washington state recently passed a law making it a crime if parents do not "affirm" [opt for surgery] their children's "chosen gender." That means that the schools get to convince little kids that they are really not what they really are, and the kids can be taken from the parents if the parents don't get on board. 13 year old kids can have their genitalia surgically altered without parental consent. California is contemplating doing the same thing. Where is the uproar over this? Regarding whites hating blacks...racism works all ways. Whites are the least racist/most welcoming folks out there. The two groups have been turned against each other for political purposes. Asians and Latinos/Hispanics are tied for first, with blacks a close second. I know of which I speak. The racism in those three groups is deeply ingrained and said out loud in a very matter-of-fact manner, yet little white kids are being taught in public schools that they are born racist.
Juneteenth was around from the end of the civil war but it took several years to spread the word to all black folks. Here is an accurate description of the Day and only recently biden tried to grab a few more votes from those that never heard of the name. biden is the one that made it a holiday when it was already a holiday 165 years ago. He is good at taking credit for others work or accomplishments in life. "" How did Juneteenth start? The celebrations began with enslaved people in Galveston, Texas. Although President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places in the South until the Civil War ended in 1865. Even then, some white people who had profited from their forced, unpaid labor were reluctant to share the news. In a 1941 interview, Laura Smalley, who was freed from a plantation near Bellville, Texas, recalled that the man she referred to as “old master” came home from fighting in the Civil War and didn’t tell the people he had enslaved what had happened. “Old master didn’t tell, you know, they was free,” Smalley said. “I think now they say they worked them, six months after that. Six months. And turn them loose on the 19th of June. That’s why, you know, we celebrate that day.” News that the war had ended and those who had been enslaved were free finally reached Galveston when Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in the Gulf Coast city on June 19, 1865, more than two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Granger delivered General Order No. 3, which said: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.” Slavery was permanently abolished six months later, when Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment. The next year, the free people of Galveston celebrated Juneteenth, an observance that has continued and has spread around the world. Events around the holiday include concerts, parades and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation. What does ‘Juneteenth’ mean? It’s a portmanteau blending the words “June” and “nineteenth.” The holiday has also been called Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, second Independence Day and Emancipation Day. It began with church picnics and speeches and spread as Black Texans moved elsewhere. Most U.S. states now hold celebrations honoring Juneteenth as a holiday or a day of recognition, like Flag Day. Juneteenth is a paid holiday for state employees in Texas, New York, Virginia, Washington and Nevada. Hundreds of companies give workers the day off.""
The whole name change thing was initiated by the Department of Defense shortly after the George Floyd incident. Note: I have no proof but I’m sure Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer had a conversation with the DOD about future funding if the department didn’t get on the bandwagon. The NAACP didn’t care about the name, “Bragg”. The founders of the get rich quick scheme, BLM, didn’t care about the name. I will Guarantee that most of this last two generation’s population even know that Ft. Bragg existed or who the man was. No one entering (or not entering) into the military does it because of the name of a Post or Base. Note: If they named a base, “Pansy” they might get a few inductees who resemble that name. not It’s all political with nary one small piece of good reasoning attached to it. Now, so far as “Juneteenth”? I haven’t even heard anyone on the radio talk about it and I’ve surfed three talk shows this morning.
It has always been known in Houston and Galveston since it originated in Galveston. From the time I can remember having interaction with my surroundings I have known about Juneteenth Day. My Grandparents were all in that early 1900 birth group like 1910 and 1912 for the two people who raised me. Their parents before them knew about it and the word was spoken. I think local Galveston citizens did celebrate since the news was spread on the 19th they were free. Since Galveston is dependent on outside commerce the festival was always a welcome mix of white and black locals. There has always been employment there in Galveston because it was the major shipping point of Southern Cotton and the same docks still exist today although changed considerably over the decades. I once saw a cotton fire on the docks that burned for a month because it was impossible to extinguish a fire within a bale of cotton. The need for access to the island was due to the port and the first horse and mule trail over water was built over the causeway and soon to come after that was the first light rail into the docks from Houston and beyond. The first street car came out of Bellaire Tx which at that time was still just country but with a lot of rich people from Houston living there. It came down the old Galveston Highway and used the same but modified wooden bridge they had built for the walking people and horses and mules. It is still there today but has been closed to any human traffic due to the old age and poor condition after decades of hurricanes and weather. I like being old because I can brag about using all the Galveston Bridges over my life span When I was 6 I loved to beg my Grandmother to slow down so we would catch the draw bridge being raised. It was beautiful to see
I think it is all about the Democrats trying to erase their parties history. They were started by the KKK and are still controlled by the higher ups in the KKK. Sure the KKK has always and still has those backwoods bubbas, that identify as republican and fly the Confederate flag, that hate based on race, but the controllers of the KKK are still Democrats and one is currently the USA president. What is next? Why not erase the blues and it's history that is based on former slavery and hardship? Change black inventors names like George Washington Carver. While they are at it, change Houston to another name not associated with defeating the Mexicans. Change the name of the Apache helicopter. These brain dead idiots even hated the Oregon Elk Statue. Why? No one knows, but it was removed. I think all these statue and name haters were paid to destroy and dismantle. In July 2020, WHITE protesters who gathered nightly outside the nearby Multnomah County Justice Center to decry police violence and anti-Black racism built bonfires inside the fountain and damaged the sculpture. The nonprofit Regional Arts and Culture Council, which has overseen the care and upkeep of the elk for decades (120 years), removed the statue. I have yet to find a photo that has a black person in it during this insane destruction of public property
The youth of the era were all brought up without any self pride or history. If someone wanted proof you could easily look for some of Jay Leno's old Man on the Street videos asking questions of young people. They mostly were in college and probably the dumbest kids ever recorded. It was all based on historical events and people.
The elk statute , just across the street from the Multnomah Justice Center was removed by the arts counsel for safety reasons after it was burned . The arts counsel believed that it might fall over and injure someone because the granite base was badly damaged in the fire. It is due to be replaced sometime in 2023. Why protestors lit a bonfire under it is unknown. But, that happened during riots against police violence against blacks. Specifically the killing of George Floyd. The elk statue does not seem to have anything to do with racial reasons. Perhaps it was just an act of wanton violence.
Oh, I don't know. I strongly suspect that the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is mostly made up of white men.
I have no idea. All I know is that the elk statue is 120 years old and supposedly a symbol of the elks that used to inhabit the area. Only a wacko could connect it to racism or police violence.