Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is on a tear, working to eliminate all civil rights heroes who have had US naval vessels named after them.
Already, the name of gay icon Harvey Milk is being removed, but this is just the beginning.
Also likely to have their names scrubbed from naval vessels are the following civil rights heroes:
Thurgood Marshall, first African American Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, female Supreme Court Justice, who promoted gender equality and civil rights
John Lewis, Georgia Congressman, who marched for civil rights
Medgar Evers, Mississippi civil rights activist, who was assassinated
Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Conductor and Union Spy during the Civil War
Dolores Huerta, Labor leader and co-founder of United Farm Workers Union
Cesar Chavez, Labor leader and Civil Rights activist and co-founder of United Farm Workers Union
Lucy Stone, prominent activist for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery
Somehow, something must be done to avert this outrageous set of actions, totally uncalled for, and unAmerican!
It is simply an attack on race, gender, sexuality, and basic common decency of civil rights for all Americans!