Letter: Exceptional Americans, but not 'American Exceptionalism'

Letter: Exceptional Americans, but not 'American Exceptionalism'

To the editor, So, President Trump has renamed various military bases once or twice again after confederate generals. How enlightening. After traitors who took up arms against the country they had once sworn allegiance to and for what? States' rights (slavery). A way of life that usually treated dogs and horses with more respect than Black slaves. I hear the term “American Exceptionalism.” It makes me cringe. The South built largely on the backs…