Daily Caller: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the creation of the new Camp Nelson National Monument in Kentucky Saturday, the first national monument designated under President Donald Trump.
Camp Nelson was a Civil War recruitment and training camp that trained more than 10,000 black-American soldiers for the Union Army, the third most of any camp.
“The monument President Trump announced today will serve as a historic marker for the commonwealth of Kentucky and memorialize a site important to African American soldiers in the Civil War,” Utah GOP Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, said in a statement.
“I appreciate President Trump joining the House in recognizing the unique historic nature of Camp Nelson and applaud the president for obeying the letter of the law in using his congressionally delegated authority to create national monuments,” Bishop continued. “I am hopeful the Senate will follow the House and the president’s lead in giving Camp Nelson the prominence and security it deserves through the force of congressionally enacted law.” more here
Yawn…. like this will do anything for him with blacks. It’s time the GOP forget outreach to minorities, go full tilt Sailer strategy.
not to be confused w/ Camp Suckawammi, where little Barry bunked w/ his ‘Uncle’
Frank
Just as the social justice warriors are destroying the American monuments and historical markers of the South.
All American Monuments and Historical Markers should be preserved to commemorate and remember the sacrifices made for this Nation.
Just like a Cigarette from the fifties, Trump Satisfies!
This will put Senate Dems in a bind; vote to approve Trump’s National Monument, or vote against it and be considered…RACISTS!!!!
Exactly why does this camp deserve such honor compared to the hundred of others that trained millions?
It will be a proud moment for our darker-skinned brothers in America to be able to point to something besides The Civil Rights Movement in their own American history. There was a time when they fought shoulder-to-shoulder for their own freedom. It’s more than appropriate they should continue that fight on the same side that won them that freedom. Interesting, isn’t it, that D’Souza’s film, “Death of a Nation”, openly compares POTUS Trump to Lincoln?
It’s coming around again.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on
Glory, Glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His day is marching on
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal”
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free
While God is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on
There are very few streets left in the US that aren’t re-named after Martin Luther King Jr.,Not to mention all the schools, public buildings, bridges etc. Can we ease off on the black ass kissing for a while?
AbigailAdams – TY – best version to me was Andy Williams,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVF6uFanJxs
Strangely so, believe having lived and witnessed after civil rights were enacted a uniting between Americans. Until old-school Politicians felt it necessary instead of uniting to divide. The same racists that hi-jacked the progress are the ones that are using it to proliferate a division only for a ‘vote’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpWLoUgPx_8
Of course this was when people had real talent and not childish rap crap,,
The “Battle Hymn” is a blasphemous, bloody tribute to Lincoln, and an effort to elevate him to god-like status.
By-the-way, there were also black southerners who fought side by side with the Confederate Armies…although we have been been progammed to discount and disbelieve those truths.
I’m with gin blossom. I’m sick of the butt kissing minorities. It’s all that’s ever talked about.
This is a camp that trained free black soldiers to fight for a Godly cause — a delayed fulfillment of a nation’s promise — the acknowledgement that God created all men (and women) equal in His sight, and is the keystone to America’s exceptionalism in the history of the world. It is wholly appropriate to dedicate it for those who were the subject of its existence.
This is a huge departure from MLK pandering to inner city blight where, I’d bet real money, those MLK schools are the worst in their districts. In Seattle, for example, MLK Blvd begins and ends straight down the center of what is no longer allowed to be called “The Central District” or “CD” for short — the poorest, blackest, most violent neighborhoods in Seattle’s south central area. The D’s got the votes and there is more real estate devoted to the business of social services there than anywhere else around here. Those neighborhoods got “MLK” and EBT cards, but no future worth contemplating.
Onginer – You didn’t see the black people at Trump’s rallies? At their own rallies? At Turning point rallies? The blacks getting accosted by antifa and the other Dems for wearing MAGA gear? What about the blacks who are wearing the BLEXIT shirts? The black men and women who are running for office right now on pro-Trump policies? You didn’t see any of them?
You didn’t see the hispanics either? The asians? The arabs? The gays?
Trump didn’t pander to them, like the Dems do. They showed up on their own.
Someone give me a flamethrower