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"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.

1 posted on 12/20/2003 5:17:34 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
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.

2 posted on 12/20/2003 5:30:19 PM PST by Tacis
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To: stainlessbanner
ping
3 posted on 12/20/2003 5:30:19 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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"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.
4 posted on 12/20/2003 5:32:41 PM PST by tet68
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To: Non-Sequitur
"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.......????????

5 posted on 12/20/2003 5:32:44 PM PST by traditional1
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To: Non-Sequitur
The solution is to adopt the old Soviet system, e.g. "Government School number 237."
6 posted on 12/20/2003 5:32:53 PM PST by Malesherbes
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12 posted on 12/20/2003 7:41:30 PM PST by stainlessbanner (Spider Hole Inspector)
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To: Non-Sequitur
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.
14 posted on 12/20/2003 8:05:26 PM PST by x
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To: Non-Sequitur
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
15 posted on 12/20/2003 8:16:49 PM PST by billbears
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To: Non-Sequitur
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
17 posted on 12/20/2003 8:23:28 PM PST by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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Let's ask Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee if she is offended by schools named after Jackson or Lee.
19 posted on 12/20/2003 8:29:26 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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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.
20 posted on 12/20/2003 9:02:01 PM PST by thatdewd
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To: Non-Sequitur
Leave the school names and the confederate flags alone.

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.

22 posted on 12/20/2003 9:46:41 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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Like naming it after Allen Iverson. That's offensive to me," says Hanson, who is white.

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.

32 posted on 12/21/2003 11:45:16 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: Non-Sequitur
These whining malcontents need to be told that it's part of our history and to STFU, followed immediately by being put on permanent ignore.
34 posted on 12/21/2003 2:30:49 PM PST by sweetliberty (Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
"If I were a kid, especially a teenager, I would be ashamed to tell a friend that I went to Jefferson Davis," said Harrison, 55. "Basically, those guys fought for slavery."

hmmmmm....public educations. nuff said

35 posted on 12/21/2003 2:33:57 PM PST by GetUsOutOfTheUnitedNations (I call them as I see them)
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