CNN’s Abby Phillip Rips Pete Hegseth’s Proposal That Could Strip Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall’s Names from Naval Vessels: ‘If You’re a Confederate Traitor… You Do?’

CBS News reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who this week ordered the renaming of a fleet replenishment oiler named in honor of the late pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk, is considering more name changes.

Documents obtained by CBS reveal all of the potential changes are of vessels named after civil rights icons, including the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip put it into perspective Tuesday when she asked a panel of experts, “Come on, what are we doing here? Is the idea just that if you’re a woman, if you’re a person of color in American history, you don’t get remembered or recorded on a ship, but if you’re a Confederat