Fucking really?!?

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn expressed resistance to the idea of changing the name of Fort Hood, a massive Texas military base named after a Confederate military leader, as calls mount nationwide to remove monuments and rename bases memorializing Confederate leaders.

“There's no question that America was an imperfect union when we were founded, we obviously betrayed our ideals by treating African Americans as less than fully human,” he said on a conference call with reporters. “And we've been paying for that original sin ever since then, through the Civil War, through the civil rights struggles in the '60s.

“And I believe that we've made tremendous progress, but I don't think we obviously are where we need to be.

“One of those most important things about our history is that we learn from it,” he added. “You can't learn from our history if you try to erase it, because it's hard to see where this leads. Now I could see efforts at the state and local levels to move, let's say, move a monument to a state capitol to a history museum or the like, but I'm just not sure where, where this leads. And to me, one of the most import things about history is what we learn from it and how how we learn to not repeat our mistakes.”