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Should Houston’s Lanier Middle School Lose Its Name Because Of Confederate Ties?
Texas Monthly January 14, 2016 John Nova Lomax
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I don’t have a problem with changing “John Reagan H.S.” to “RONALD Reagan H.S.” ! ;)
Literally just started ranting about it after the media-manufactured Confederate hysteria following Roof's shooting in South Carolina.
Oh, wait...
A-holes ought to have their education funding taken away.
Never thought that Houston would become a Commie history revisionist center.
Idiots! What? now they are revising History?
I bet next they change the male pronouns on the bible to he/she and in a few year to ‘zer’.
Then they’ll start erasing all the Texan heroes from scanned photographs, and perhaps inserting more ‘acceptable’ figures instead. Just like Stalin did.
As history has shown us before, this is an evil slippery slope and the proponents of it misguided dangerous fools.
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Race relations have taken another hit, as Black lamented their lot in life as a result of slavery.
When will folks take responsibility for their own actions and lives?
N E V E R as long as we pamper them.
It’s way past time for tough love...
After all, we don’t want the enemy islamist in the White House to feel bad.
He hates the Confederacy too, as with anything American.
FU HISD! As a former student at Robert E. Lee High School, I am offended that a long honored name is being erased from history. I grew up reading about Soviet historical revisionism, but I never imagined that I would live to see it here.
Our school mascot at the football games was a statue, a somewhat comical bowlegged caricature of General Lee wielding a sword above his head, about to lead a charge. Our marching band was called The Marching Generals and the band uniforms were a very realistic grey officer’s uniform complete with a yellow sash, and a grey rimmed felt hat. Our school song was George Gershwin’s “Swanee”.
Those were fun, innocent times and we never expected anyone to be seriously offended by romanticizing something from 150 years ago. Being an American is fast loosing its meaning and I am ashamed of this country’s decline.
Next.. THE AMERICAN FLAG!
Do you know why Trump may become President? Because a lot of ordinary Americans are fed up with shit like this! I have been an alert observer of Liberal rot for over 40 years and am sick to death of it! Electing Trump will be like poking a collective finger in some Liberal’s eye.
Pussies.
I don’t agree with this rewriting of history, and I’m a Yankee!
Three negroes and a hispanic.
HISD actually removed the “Albert Sidney” from the Johnston school name some time ago, as they did with the “Robert E.” for Lee.
They dropped the Battle Flag from Lee and Westbury 10-15 years ago, and changed Westbury’s mascot from the Rebels to the Huskies(!?) last year.
RE Lee HS has been ~95% minority for quite some time, btw, as has Westbury.
Odd that Johnston escaped the axe while Lee did not. Probably because few know who ASJ was.
Rename every school and building named after a Jim Crow Dixiecrat Democrat too. They were far worse than any Confederate general.
It becomes very apparent that we are following the communist credo when we rename landmarks and public places to appease the minority.
Never, in my life did I ever expect to see the ERASURE OF HISTORY in this country on such a blatant scale.
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it and that is being clearly shown here at home due to Political Correctness. We are repeating the early days of Russia’s transition to Stalinist rule...and the millennials love it!
Excuse me MS Scurlock, but Hitler was trying to take over the whole world. The Confederates were just trying to protect their states rights.
Ethnic Cleansing Joe Stalin would be proud of.
Seeing as how the government schools are failing them anyway why not show the kids what happened to a real bunch of losers.