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.
Nor, do I understand why so many orientals the world around have adopted the name of another Confederate Army General, Robert E. Lee.
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.......????????
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."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"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
You're missing the point. These renamings are exercises in the new pietism......when they aren't the realization of black racism. Renaming a school named for George Washington, after someone else, just because the someone else was black? Pure-dimensional racial chauvinism, larded with vindictiveness. How can anyone call it anything else?
As for the New Orleans School Board, those people down there have been doctrinaire black racists for years. A columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and States-Item named Iris Kelso, a longtime political observer since the salad days of the Long machine, made the observation 20 years ago that no white person was electable to citywide public office in the City of New Orleans. A few years ago, they purged Congresswoman Lindy Boggs, a down-the-line liberal who'd done black voters' bidding in the Louisiana Second District for a generation, just because she was white. As an otherwise distinguished black preacher and NAACP nabob explained to her in the meeting, it was "time for one of our own". More recently, Mayor Marc Morial pulled strings high and low, busing "voters" from the infamous New Orleans housing projects to the polls to defeat the last white person on the city council, a woman who'd tried to stand up for fiscal responsibility and basic honesty in the way the city did business. They beat her, then celebrated afterwards.
The biggest racists in the South ain't the Klan, guys.
Like maybe naming the school after ANY sports figure is offensive, regardless of race. But the author jumped on the chance to note the race of these people.
Sports figures get too much attention anyway. Most of them would be flipping burgers if they couldn't throw a ball or run fast.
hmmmmm....public educations. nuff said