Colin Powell Wants Confederate Named Bases Renamed “Quickly”

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that military bases named after Confederate leaders need to renamed “as quickly as we can”.

On CBS’s “Meet the Press” the former four-star general who served under former President George W. Bush, said he supports the push to rename Army bases named after Confederate leaders. 

Breitbart reports: Powell said, “I would rename the bases. We hadn’t thought about that a few years ago. But now with Black Lives Matter and all the issues that are before us, I think it is a good idea to rename the 10 bases in the United States Army that are named after Confederates. I never really thought about it. I went to Fort Benning, Georgia, named after a Confederate, and I did all my training there, but it never stuck to me that this name should be changed. So I fully support what John Millie is doing. I think it’s something we should do quickly as we can.”

He added, “The Confederate flag is now an explicit demonstration of another time, place and country that has nothing to do with the United States of America, it was the Confederate States of America, they were not part of us, and this is not the time to keep demonstrating who they were and what they were back then. This is time to move on. Let’s get going. We have one flag and only one flag only, and that’s the flag we should all support, and all display and all be proud of.”

10 Comments

  1. That’s right. You don’t negotiate with terrorists, yet you allow yourselves to be extorted by the race card play of the week. Pound sand, General. You’re a disgrace.

  2. Colin Powell lied about Iraq’s WMD, Which cost thousands of American Life’s from the Iraq War.. Colin Powell is a Soros Owned POS.

  3. They want to erase all traces if France from american history Its why they duped Napoleon inti invading russia and so to raise,money sold Louisiana to them for 5 cents an acre. The only frenchman they want remembered is La Fayette cause he went from being one of the worlds richest men to a prisoner and then a pauper after they finished ” equalising ” him .They of course were as Kaiser Bill said, the English freemasons .

  4. Colin Powell HAD his chance when he was working with Bush to make ANY changes. Guess he had to wait till now to STIR UP MORE PROBLEMS.

  5. There was a time not long ago that Prominent republican politicians wouldn’t publicly support such things. Now they do it right in our faces. Cue the apologist enablers in to deny the true state of the Republican Party. Folks, this isn’t an isolated instance. This is the new r party…. And btw, our current admin is rife with them. I know, I know…they’re mostly Obama leftovers. But who “left them over?’ And why? Oops, never mind. We’re not allowed to speak truth about some people’s golden idols. And that… dun-dun-duuuune… is why we’re done! Party first. Country second. Right? Wrong!!! Time to throw BOTH parties out.

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