Knights Party Press Release: May 27. 2020
On Monday May 25th, The Washington Times ran this headline, “Pentagon bashes the New York Times over ‘white supremacy editorial.” Top Pentagon officials late Sunday blasted The New York Times for a Memorial Day weekend editorial that criticized the military for naming bases after Confederate generals. The piece, titled “Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy,” ran in Sunday’s print edition of the newspaper. It argued that “it is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.” The editorial singled out Georgia’s Fort Benning, North Carolina’s Fort Bragg and other installations named for military figures who […]
