Opinion: Ever hear of Robert Smalls? Well, his ship has come in and he will sail into U.S. history. [Opinion]
The cruiser was named Chancellorsville in 1989 to honor the Battle of Chancellorsville, a Confederate victory during the Civil War. It is forward-deployed in Yokosuka, Japan at the moment — and will leave its backward thinking behind for good now.
At times, the Civil War battles of the southern United States may seem like a distant time and place to today’s Californians. But in San Diego County, which has one of the largest concentrations of military members and veterans in the entire nation, decisions by the Navy and other branches of the U.S. military to rename a number of assets that had Confederate ties will echo throughout time.
In authorizing the independent naming commission’s recommendations last year, Austin, the nation’s first Black defense secretary, cleared the way to eliminate across the Defense Department, including nine Army bases, a monument honoring Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery and the ship formerly known as the Chancellorsville.that it was time for the nation to remove all tributes to the Confederacy. Times change. Leaders, too. History will — and should — remember right and wrong, and right from wrong. And the Navy was certainly right to honor Robert Smalls. Leaders lead. It’s what Smalls did then. And what the Navy brass is doing now.
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