West Point Has a K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall

[Libertas]

For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York have walked beneath a panel of three bronze plaques mounted at the entrance of Bartlett Hall Science Center that includes an image of a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” written below it, according to findings in a report released by a congressional panel on Monday.

The report from the panel, the Naming Commission, which was created by Congress last year and tasked with providing recommendations for the removal or renaming of Defense Department assets that commemorate the Confederacy, included multiple suggestions regarding paintings, statues and other items at West Point as well as at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

But the commission said that recommending the removal of the plaque fell outside of its scope because the Ku Klux Klan, founded by former Confederate soldiers, emerged after the Civil War. The panel flagged the item for review in its report, and included a picture.

A spokeswoman for West Point said the academy is reviewing the recommendations made by the panel and will collaborate with the Defense Department and the U.S. Army to implement the approved changes.


[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/nyre ... s-kkk.html

[carmenjonze]

How many people are conservative whites going to run over with their gas guzzlers after this plaque is taken down.

:problem:

[Glennfs]

How many people are conservative whites going to run over with their gas guzzlers after this plaque is taken down.

:problem:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwill ... c964e453d9

Maybe liberals could stop by when flying their private jets to the next global warming conference

[carmenjonze]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwill ... c964e453d9

Maybe liberals could stop by when flying their private jets to the next global warming conference

Hi, Confederate Flag guy.

How come you guys get so violent when we protest your graven images to white supremacists, like you did in Charlottesville?

Don't you know the Bible sez worship of graven images is a sin?

[ProfX]

Maybe liberals could stop by when flying their private jets to the next global warming conference

I'm curious, how do you know all the attendees were liberals? I ask, especially as a few of the attendees were named in that article, and I would say they are not.

It is good lots of people other than just tree-hugging liberals are paying attention to the problem; flip side of that, of course, is at a conference like the one described in that article, I wouldn't expect most attendees to be liberal.

Finally, maybe you can explain what that article has to do with the thread topic. Oh, I guess it doesn't.

[Libertas]

I'm curious, how do you know all the attendees were liberals? I ask, especially as a few of the attendees were named in that article, and I would say they are not.

It is good lots of people other than just tree-hugging liberals are paying attention to the problem; flip side of that, of course, is at a conference like the one described in that article, I wouldn't expect most attendees to be liberal.

Finally, maybe you can explain what that article has to do with the thread topic. Oh, I guess it doesn't.

In the mind of a simpleminded person like board con, it is easier to lump people he is afraid of like that.

[Drak]

Here’s the plaque



Here’s an alternate article

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ku ... -rcna45653

[Libertas]

Here’s the plaque



Here’s an alternate article

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ku ... -rcna45653

Amazing. Let me guess, board con did not denounce.

[carmenjonze]

Amazing. Let me guess, board con did not denounce.

That forced-birth con is worse than KKK. KKK violent, swindling lunatics are more honest than he is.

The country's most elite military institution has an intact KKK monument, but what makes him angry is oh heavens to betsy an African American on the internet who doesn't accommodate white conservatism.