DoD/USN are BEMRs: Remember the -- whatever the politically correct, forgettably named ship is!

The politically correct US Navy in the politically correct Department of Defense named a supply ship after a politically correct martyr.

Why name a Navy ship after murdered civil rights worker Medgar Evers? Was he in the Navy? Did he develop something for the Navy? Was he instrumental in any Navy? No.

Is the message for the citizens of the United States? Nothing is more important than wallowing in a civil rights struggle that effectively ended 30 years ago? Military warriors will be ignored while self-absorbed pacifists glorify themselves by naming ships of the line after anti-war civilians?

Is the message for the citizens of the United States or the World? If you're going to name a Navy ship after civil rights worker Medgar Evers, why give his name to a supply ship? What purpose does that serve? "Fight for civil rights in peace, but supply the sodas and condoms in war"? "Fight for civil rights in peace, but act as a large, slow, defenseless target in war"?

Or is the message to her crewmen: "We want black Afro-Americans to serve on the Medgar Evers because they can't handle combat"? Os it the message: "We want black Afro-Americans to serve on the Medgar Evers so they can be slaughtered when the first anti-ship missile or torpedo is launched"?

The Secretary of the Navy obviously views black Afro-American sailors as designated mortalities.

And the black Afro-American sailors will taunt the Caucasian sailors: "You're on OUR ship now!" Or, "You'd better be careful or YOU'LL end up like Medgar Evers!" When the Caucasians retort, "Watch your back!", the race-riots will begin. This was a bloody stupid decision!

The exceptional insult to the black Afro Americans AND Medgar Evers is that almost no one knows the names of supply ships. Besides the new USS Medgar Evers, Name one!

It seems to me that if the US Military and its politically correct mishandlers wanted to do something correctly, they would name something US Army for Medgar Evers. Evers dropped out of school to join the Army and served in Europe during World War II. Then he went to college. Perhaps the Department of Defense should name the GI Bill after Medgar Evers. Perhaps the Department of Defense should name a special GI Bill for soldiers who earn their GED AND a college degree after Medgar Evers.  Perhaps the Department of the Army should name the next European-specific piece of individual equipment after Medgar Evers.

If the Obama Administration and the Department of Defense want all Caucasians to carry the shame of civil rights, and, they want the black Afro-Americans to carry the fighting spirit of a martyr, they should name the new combat knife after Medgar Evers. "He cut through racism as you will cut through America's enemies!"

But that would require an administration unafraid of making an enemy bleed, and, that is not the Obama administration.

BEMR