Southern Purge Targets Military Bases, “Gone With the Wind”
By Todd Starnes
As I predicted earlier this week – the cultural purging of the South is well under way. In the past few days, we’ve seen the cultural revolutionaries demand the eradication of streets, parks, schools and buildings named after Confederate war heroes.
We’ve also seen corporate America engage in the cultural cleansing – banning all Confederate products from places like Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Sears.
But the purging is far from over.
Now, the revolutionaries are now targeting US military bases named after Confederate war heroes.
A reader sent me a screenshot of an item that was posted by officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. bragg
“Okay, evidently there are groups requesting the Army change the names of its installations that are named after soldiers that ended up serving in the Confederate Army,” the statement read. “We’re interested in what you would rename Fort Bragg.”
The Fort was named after Major Braxton Bragg, a North Carolina native and general in the Confederate Army.
Fort Bragg said they would pick three choices and send them to the Pentagon.
“Have fun and good luck,” they wrote.
Well, it turns out most folks around Fort Bragg were not interested in having fun. The outrage over possibly renaming the Fort was so massive, they removed the Facebook message.
“What the hell is wrong with you people,” one reader wrote. “Did you know you have soldiers, civilian workers and their families who are from the South, some of whom are very proud of their southern heritage?”
“Shame on you, Fort Bragg PC police,” another wrote.
Stars & Stripes reports there are at least 10 installations named after Confederate generals — and according to their online poll an overwhelming majority don’t want the names changed.
And neither does the Army.
Stars & Stripes reports the Army will not rename any of their bases.
“Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Malcolm Frost said in a statement. “Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”
Meanwhile, Lou Lumenick, the film critic for the New York Post, wants to banish “Gone With the Wind.”
“The more subtle racism of ‘Gone with the Wind’ is in some ways more insidious, going to great lengths to enshrine the myth that the Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery – an institution the film unabashedly romanticizes,” he wrote.
Lumenick, a northerner, called for the beloved film to be stuffed in a museum “where this much-loved, but undeniably racist, artifact really belongs.”
I wonder how Lou feels about “Blazing Saddles” and “Forrest Gump”?
In recent days, monuments and memorials have been destroyed or desecrated, works of art threatened with censorship and those who dare affirm Southern heritage are labeled racists, or worse.
What a troubling time in America.
I am a native son of Tennessee. My forefathers fought in the Civil War. One of my great, great, great grandfathers was killed at Reams Station, Virginia. Another was killed defending Richmond. Many others fought and died for the Confederacy. My people did not own slaves. They were farmers.
I am proud to call myself American by birth, but Southern by the Grace of God. I am proud of my heritage.
And if you’ve got a problem with that – well — in the words of Rhett Butler — frankly my dear…
