Two Hispanic Congressmen want Trump loyalists removed from Army base renaming group
Demopolis, Alabama/USA-June 5, 2020: Marengo County Confederate monument erected in 1910 during the height of Jim Crow Laws in the South. This once had a statue of a Confederate soldier on top.
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Two Hispanic congressmen are taking the initiative to request that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin remove any Trump loyalists from the Confederate renaming panel.
Since the commission is in place to "identify Confederate monuments for removal and to issue recommendations on how to rename the bases," the congressmen are not confident that Trump-era commissioners, who appear to have very little interest in diversity and inclusion, possess the capacity needed to forward the commission's agenda, according to Axios.