Naval Academy Continues War on Confederate Heroes, Symbols

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By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)

The U.S. Naval Academy has renamed a building that once honored Matthew Fontaine Maury, the founder of modern oceanography. It is now named for President Jimmy Carter, a failed president whose most significant achievement was ordering the failed rescue mission of American hostages in Iran.

The reason Maury had to go: He served in the Confederate Navy, all things Confederate now being the subject of a communist campaign of lies and hate.

The attack on Maury is part of a larger campaign that began in earnest after a mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina, and intensified further after George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose while being restrained by Minneapolis police.

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