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Ivan G Thompson
a book bubble about
The Air Force's Black DEI Myths
Politics & Social Sciences
Author Insight
Hegesth's Unabashed and Dogged Racism
A quote from this chapter: “…the Pentagon increased its DEI program funding request further, to a staggering $114.7 million. (Fein, 2024). For those unfamiliar with the Defense Department budget, $114.7 million might sound like a lot. The fiscal year 2024 Department of Defense (DoD) funding bill was $824.3 billion…” I also shared the rough cost to rename a military base/signage--$6 million. As Hegseth restores a seventh military base back to its Confederate-namesake’s-soundalike it means he has spent at least $40 million to restore the grandeur of the Confederacy, more than a third of the entire DoD 2024 DEI Program funding budget. That doesn’t include staffers researching veterans who have the same last names as the Confederate generals the bases were previously named after. “Two years ago, Fort Hood, in Texas, was redesignated to honor General Richard Edward Cavazos, a native Texan, Army’s first Hispanic four-star general, Distinguished Service Cross and Medal of Honor recipient. Fort Hood was initially named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood. The base will again be renamed, back to Fort Hood, but with a different namesake: World War I Col. Robert B. Hood. According to the Army, Col. Hood received the Distinguished Service Cross for his ‘extraordinary heroism’ during WWI during an ‘intense shelling’ near Thiaucourt, France.” SOURCES-NBC.com&KXAN;.com With no disrespect to Colonel Hood, taking the honor away from a four-star general who also won the Distinguished Cross and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor is a disgusting and blatant display of racism.”
Book Excerpt
The Air Force's Black DEI Myths
This is a excerpt from the chapter entitled "Too Much Time and Money Spent on DEI":
Mr. Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense will change the name of Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg. Bragg was the name of a Confederate General. The base was not renamed Bragg after that general but another soldier with the same last name. I don’t know how much time and money were spent to identify a soldier out of the tens of thousands who have deployed with the same last name as Confederate General Bragg. But I know it cost $6 million to change it from Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty. (Watson, 2025)
Recently, Mr. Hegseth announced he is directing the renaming of another military base to return it to its Confederate roots:
“Hegseth Revives the Old Name of Another Military Base
…Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continued his efforts to revive the Confederate names of military bases, announcing on Monday that he is re-renaming Fort Moore, whose previous name honored the confederate general Henry Benning.
The base, which is in Georgia, will again be called Fort Benning.
The base’s name was changed in 2023 as part of a wider bipartisan effort to eliminate military honors bestowed on Confederate officers who rebelled against the Union during the Civil War. Mr. Hegseth views those changes as part of a “woke” culture and wants to return the bases back to their old names.
Current law does not let him do that — the military is no longer allowed to name bases after Confederate generals — so Mr. Hegseth has found other military troops with the same last names.
Last month, he announced that Fort Liberty in North Carolina would return to the name Fort Bragg, but in honor of an enlisted Army soldier named Roland L. Bragg, who fought in World War II, and not the Confederate general Braxton Bragg.
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