Gov. Cuomo Wants To Remove Names Of Confederate Generals From

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Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday called on the Army to reconsider its recent decision not to rename two streets in Brooklyn honoring Civil War Confederate generals.
“Renaming these streets will send a clear message that in New York, we stand against intolerance and racism, whether it be insidious and hidden or obvious and intentional,” Cuomo wrote in a letter sent to acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
The Army on Aug. 7 denied requests from New York congressional members to change the names of Stonewall Jackson Drive and General Lee Avenue on the Fort Hamilton Army Base, the city’s only active military post.
Cuomo in his letter asked McCarthy to reconsider in the wake of “the violence and terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the resulting emboldening of the voices of Nazis and white supremacists.”

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Cuomo, who has been mentioned as a possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, wrote that New York condemns language and violence of white supremacy “in no uncertain terms.”
“Unlike President Trump, we stand together to say that there are not many sides to hatred and bigotry; they do not belong in our communities and must be denounced for what they are,” he wrote.