America may finally be repudiating the idea that the Confederacy – and the Neo-Confederacy – were honorable parts of the national legacy
Grant’s Grand Army of the Republic finally vindicated. Photo: Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images If the protests over George Floyd’s killing don’t produce anything else of note, they are already pushing across the line a movement that’s been in the making for 155 years: the final subjugation of the Confederate States of America by the Union forces that fought them in the Civil War via the elimination of the names and symbols of the traitorous racist rebellion from U.S.
So ridding U.S. military facilities of these remnants of the Confederacy reverses a disgraceful betrayal of the cause for which hundreds of thousands of Americans died. And the Army isn’t moving alone, as The Hill reports: On the other side of the historic barricades, the George Floyd protests are also having an effect, as Mississippi, the last state to deploy Confederate insignia on its flag, lurches erratically towards doing the right thing, as the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports:
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