I get that US doesn’t really want to confront its slaving past.
What I really don’t get is its embrace of enemy officers and their legacy.
@nytimes.comPresident Trump on Friday will reinstate the name of Fort Bragg, an army base in North Carolina originally named for a Confederate general who owned enslaved people. In 2023, it was changed to Fort Liberty as part of the U.S. military’s examination of its history with race.
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Fort Liberty Set to Be Renamed Fort Bragg, Fulfilling a Trump Promise
In 2020, Congress pushed past the president’s veto of a military policy bill to rename the base, which was originally named for a Confederate general.