Posted on 01/14/2016 10:13:43 PM PST by a fool in paradise
In the aftermath of last year's Dylann Roof massacre, Houston once again confronted its Confederate past. There were calls to remove certain statues from city parks, to rechristen certain streets, and to rename several schools dubbed after Confederate leaders.
As of late last year, that list of educational institutions was comprised of high schools bearing the names of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, postmaster general John Reagan, and top commander of the Confederate Army Robert E. Lee. Also on the list were middle schools named after rebel generals Stonewall Jackson, Texan Albert Sidney Johnston, and Dick Dowling, the Irish-born Houstonian whose small batallion of cannoneers once staved off an amphibious federal invasion of East Texas.
It seemed like a judicious plan. Although some of those men made contributions to Houston (or Texas) above and beyond their Confederate service, it was hard to contend with a straight face that any of them would be so honored had it not been for their taking up arms (or otherwise serving) the Confederacy...
This month the list grew to include two more schools. HISD board president Rhonda Skillern-Jones announced that the list of “schools linked to Confederate leaders†to be renamed had grown from six to eight. The process to rename the schools will begin at a meeting Thursday night.
The two new schools? Henry Grady Elementary and Sidney Lanier Middle School...
..."If I could find one statement of Lanier's that sounded anything like [Henry Grady's racism], or if Lanier had been a real leader in the Confederacy, I would stand silent in the corner while they changed the name," Henley says. "I just think this has been brought up [by HISD] without thorough investigation."
(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...
Confederate forever , to hell with the damn Yankees
This is all Nikki Haley’s fault...
Most of the ‘attendees’ to the skool, in all likelihood, don’t even know whom Lanier WAS, so why the fuss?
They going to go after my current town, Jacksonville, FL too?
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