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US President Donald Trump earlier refused to rename US military bases. Now, The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley has recommended a commission consider renaming American military bases that bear the name of Confederates. President’s top military adviser informed the House Armed Services Committee, “Those generals fought for the institution of slavery. Those officers turned their backs on their oath “. He also condemned the Confederacy’s attempt to secede from the US as an act of treason. General Milley was addressing a mostly empty and virtual committee in a darkened room on Thursday. He admitted that black service members would be uncomfortably stationed at a base named after a person who fought for an institution of slavery and may have enslaved one of their ancestors.

General Milley said, “I had a staff sergeant when I was a young officer who actually told me that at Fort Bragg. He said he went to work every day on a base that represented a guy who enslaved his grandparents”. At least a dozen military installations named after Confederate generals are facing renewed scrutiny as the US endures a reckoning over its racist foundations. The officials have considering renaming 10 bases amid widespread racial justice protests, all in the southern US. Most bases were renamed at the onset of World War I through World War II, within roughly the same period in which monuments to the Lost Cause of the Civil War.

He added that they are attempting to preserve the legacies of the men on their pedestals without addressing the racist violence they perpetuated, were erected through the US. Milley said, “I personally think that the original decisions to name those bases after Confederate generals, were political decisions. And they’re going to be political decisions today”.  President Trump rejected potential attempts to rename the bases in a series of messages on Twitter last month. He said, “These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars”.