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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: endicom on August 18, 2017, 01:12:46 am
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American Thinker
Cliff Thier
Aug. 17, 2017
President Trump can rename the aircraft carrier USS John Stennis, which honors a 20th-century racist. He was a mere politician who never served in the armed forces.
Stennis was a zealous supporter of racial segregation. He signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. He also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
More... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/something_that_trump_can_do_with_his_pen_to_heal_the_nation.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
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I like the idea!
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I like the idea!
So do I. It would serve more than one purpose.
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I do have to disagree with one point. Sadly, I doubt most of the country would recognize who Robert Smalls is. (and yes, he very much deserves a ship named after him).
I am sadly certain, at this point, if you had a ship named the USS Smalls, 40% of the country would think Biggie, 40% would think The Sandlot, 15% would think it is a penis joke, and only 5% would know who it is really about.
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Don't we have bigger fish to fry right now?
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So basically we're going to say that anyone born before 1900 is a scumbag because back then the vast majority of people were racists by today's standards.
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So basically we're going to say that anyone born before 1900 is a scumbag because back then the vast majority of people were racists by today's standards.
The Dems want monuments to racism gone so let's give them that, Dem after Dem after Dem.
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The Dems want monuments to racism gone so let's give them that, Dem after Dem after Dem.
Even if Trump did it, the media won't report what Stennis' party affiliation was.
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I do have to disagree with one point. Sadly, I doubt most of the country would recognize who Robert Smalls is. (and yes, he very much deserves a ship named after him).
I wouldn't recognize the names on the majority of ships.
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I wouldn't recognize the names on the majority of ships.
But Harvey Milk is going to get a ship named after him......SMH.........The same man that said the Reverend Jim Jones was a great guy.
Times like this I really think this country is finished.
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I am sadly certain, at this point, if you had a ship named the USS Smalls, 40% of the country would think Biggie, 40% would think The Sandlot, 15% would think it is a penis joke, and only 5% would know who it is really about.
Raising Arizon quote: "Name's Smalls - Leonard Smalls."
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