The latest Civil War skirmish: Public school names

WVEC.com ^ | 12/20/03 | Steve Szkotak

[Non-Sequitur]

"He must be rolling his grave to see so many smart young African-American students," she said of (Jefferson) Davis.

Boy has she got that right!

Still this whole crusade aimed at purging anything and everything to do with the rebel cause is absolutely ridiculous. The Civil War happened. It won't go away just because these people want it to. Leave the school names and the confederate flags alone.

[Tacis]

Well, maybe not. As a true liberal, I am deeply offended by all the places that are, today, being named after Confederate Army General Stonewall Jackson. I saw no reason to modify the name of the Atlanta airport to include an honor for him.

Nor, do I understand why so many orientals the world around have adopted the name of another Confederate Army General, Robert E. Lee.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[tet68]

"If it had been up to Robert E. Lee, these kids wouldn't be going to school as they are today," said civil rights leader Julian Bond,

More proof that Julian Bond is an ignorant cretin.

[traditional1]

"They can't help but wonder about honoring a man who wanted to keep them in servitude."per Julian Bond.

Well, we better start taking all the names off Schools that have Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, the Progressive Black Caucus membership, etc., as these are the ones even today who are trying to keep the "servitude" going (to keep their voters electing them), where they DEPEND on OTHERS for their existence.....

Maybe Reparations are in order from THE PROGRESSIVE BLACK CAUCUS MEMBERS directly to THEIR servants.......????????

[Malesherbes]

The solution is to adopt the old Soviet system, e.g. "Government School number 237."

[07055]

Not to mention that Congressperson from Houston whose name glorifies two of the worst of the worst: Sheila Jackson-Lee. (sarcasm)

[steplock]

Public School # 666 ??

Isn't that exactly like it's done in the Peoples Republic of NYC ?

[jocon307]

"The solution is to adopt the old Soviet system, e.g. "Government School number 237."

In Bayonne, NJ, all the Elementary schools have names as well as numbers, except for one, PS #14. It's the school with no name. I figure they are holding out to name it after someone special. Maybe one day it will be George W. Bush School #14!

But those children do seem deprived, but I bet too that for them it is a badge of honor.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I've always been offended by Sheila Jackson Lee.

[patriota-ferus]

A proud Graduate of Robert E. Lee High school, Montgomery, Alabama!

[stainlessbanner]

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[4CJ]

"If it had been up to Robert E. Lee, these kids wouldn't be going to school as they are today," said civil rights leader Julian Bond, now a history professor at the University of Virginia. "They can't help but wonder about honoring a man who wanted to keep them in servitude."

Julian Bond is a racist MORON. In November 1853 Robert E. Lee paid the way for one of his wife's former slaves, one William Burke, to travel to Monrovia with his wife Rosabella and their 4 children, where William became a Presbyterian minister in 1857. Both Burkes continued to correspond with the Lees.

[x]

There was a move in Seattle to change the name of the county from King County, named after William Rufus King, Vice President under Pierce and a slaveowner, to ... King County, named after Martin Luther King, noted civil rights leader. I'm not sure that the names need to be changed, but taking the Christian names off could be a compromise solution. "Davis School" is as non-descript and inoffensive as PS 481 or HS 297. BTW, given the rumors, maybe they'll have to give William King his county back.

[billbears]

For some, these men who defended a system that allowed slavery should not be memorialized on public schools where thousands of black children are educated.

I see the author learned his northern force fed propaganda quite well

"If it had been up to Robert E. Lee, these kids wouldn't be going to school as they are today," said civil rights leader Julian Bond, now a history professor at the University of Virginia. "They can't help but wonder about honoring a man who wanted to keep them in servitude."

"In 1855, he (Jackson) defied a city ordinance in his hometown of Lexington, Virginia, by starting a Sunday school for local blacks. This class continued after Jackson’s death and "birthed" no less than three black churches. One of these churches still exists to this day in Roanoke, Virginia, where on one wall is a stained glass window in honor of Jackson – showing him kneeling in prayer."

"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race."---Robert E. Lee

I agree Julian, we can't name schools after people like this!! Better to name them after men like Sherman, Grant, and the other guy. Lord knows their love for people of other races is well documented

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

If I'm not mistaken, First Lady Laura Bush attended Robert E. Lee High School in Midland.

[chudogg]

Jefferson was opposed to slavery and freed his slaves at the start of the Civil War. Changing the school named after him is rather absurd

[chudogg]

whoops, correction! Thinking of Robert E. Lee, i'll go away now,

[FreedomCalls]

Let's ask Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee if she is offended by schools named after Jackson or Lee.

[thatdewd]

I could understand if she was upset that a school was named after such avowed racists like that Abe Lincoln fellow or his pet Sherman. Especially Sherman, who with his fellow blue-coats executed a war of attempted GENOCIDE against the plains Indians. Under that racist Grant's supervision, that is. I sure hope no schools are named after those racist bast**ds. What a bunch of nazis they were.