California bill banning Confederate names clears committee

Sacramento Bee ^ | July 14, 2015 | Alexei Koseff

[BigEdLB]

Actually, LARD...

[FreeAtlanta]

libs come up with this nonsense as a way to avoid talking about actual problems.

ding ding ding, We have a WINNER!

[Right Brother]

So what are they going to change the name of Ft. Bragg to?

Considering the military's new recruiting efforts, Fort Fag?

[null and void]

So what are they going to change the name of Ft. Bragg to? Milkville?

Ft. Fagg...

[null and void]

Darn you!

[CAluvdubya]

But they can have Cesar Chavez Parkway...... The man who authorized threats to women and daughters (rape) if the farm workers didn’t join his “union”.

[Right Brother]

GMTA. Your use of the double G was more clever.

[uscga77]

63 days till we move from California to the great state of Texas—but who’s counting.

[Theodore R.]

Who knows; they may rename Jeff Davis County in West TX with the support of the uninformed of TX.

[Mastador1]

There is a town in California named Manteca. Look that up. Mooshell Obama wants that one banned as well.

However she would feel right at home in Los Banos

[BigEdLB]

maybe... :)

[vetvetdoug]

The monuments and streets named for MLK, Jr., need to be reassessed. Pass it on. We don’t need a National Holiday for such a man that had few ethics and morals. No wonder the black community is so dysfunctional, they are emulating MLK,Jr.’s personal life.

[The_Reader_David]

There is something a bit obnoxious about naming things for Confederate leaders qua Confederate leaders, at least outside of the South where their having fought for their states gives some basis for it.

However, plaques with inscriptions like

Dedicated the memory of Robert E. Lee whose honorable choice to surrender spared the United States many more years of bloodshed.

or

Dedicated to the memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest whose repentance for founding the KKK and tireless work late in life in the interest of African Americans should serve as an exemplar for all Americans.

strike me as perfectly reasonable dedications for public buildings.

[AFreeBird]

How about Ft. Barry?

[NormsRevenge]

lololololololololololololololol

nothin better to do than pass some more meaningless crap and act like they’re working on series issues that affect this state’s residents.

[Zathras]

Is Hanks going to re-name “Forest Gump”?

[ek_hornbeck]

This is precisely what Lincoln wanted to avoid; demonization, hate, and polarization.

It's only a matter of time before this becomes Federal Law, i.e. a Federal dictate that prohibits southerners the right to honor the memories of 300K war dead among their forebears.

[ek_hornbeck]

but the Mexican flag flying over US soil is just fine.

There's a reconquista of the US southwest happening under their very noses, and they're still fighting the symbolic battles of 1865. Idiots.

[ek_hornbeck]

We all know that Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are so much more of a threat to Californians than the likes of Francisco Lopez-Sanchez.