Lee High School football players, including Tyquon Jacket, left, head out of the locker room after a weight-training session. Above the locker room door is an image of the school's Rebel mascot.
Posted on 04/07/2005 10:54:44 AM PDT by Ellesu
Lee High School football players, including Tyquon Jacket, left, head out of the locker room after a weight-training session. Above the locker room door is an image of the school's Rebel mascot.
How about placing being proud of your roots ahead of being politically correct?
Ping.
Looks just like the Mascot for Robert E. Lee HS in Midland Texas.
Where Laura Bush went, BTW.
And Gen. Tommy Franks.
I doubt the 58% of the school that is black are particularly fond of the roots associated with the "Rebel" mascot.
I'm sure I'll get flamed for mentioning this, but we need to do the same thing here in Jacksonvile, Florida. Most of the older high schools, and some of the middle schools are named after Confederate Generals. It's not such a bad thing overall I suppose, but the one named after Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General/KKK Founder) really should change.
"The School Board's School Operations Committee had no objections to the change when the issue came up Wednesday.
Under school system policy, schools can select their own mascots without getting School Board approval."
I imgine plenty would be said if a school wanted to become the Rebels...
So, by implication, Robert E Lee is now a "Patriot" instead of a "Rebel"?
That kind of begs the question; what nation was he a Patriot to? The short lived CSA? The state of Virginia?
Why don't they just call themselves the "Generals" or something. Nobody can argue that he wasn't a General.
Surely the school's name will also have to change. Just wait and see. It won't take long.
So we filter our history depending on the racial makeup of the school where it's being taught?
From what I read in the story, that was one of the choices.
Robert E. Lee was a traitor to the United States of America. He was a "patriot" to the Confederate States.
I don't really see this as filtering history, so much as selecting who/what should be promoted and held up for emulation.
Why? MLK Jr. was purported to be a fornicator and adulterer. He has one school and street in every US town named after him.
No. Teach history that way it happened. But, AFAIK, a school mascot is not history, it's just a mascot that is subject to change if the students don't like it.
The middle schools named after Confederate Generals used to be high schools. They never changed names, just the grade levels that they "educated."
Where is the problem with naming schools after these famous military leaders? Remember, in the earliest days of Kappa Kappa Kappa (Forrest's time-period), it wasn't all about lynching.
Also, what will we do when the blacks find out that more fought for the CSA than the union? Eliminate any Ulysses S. Grant High schools? Rename Lincoln, Nebraska?
This sort of revisionist history is deplorable...
"Be ye King George's men, OR BE YE REBELS!"
Oh, wait! Wrong war!
Grrrrr.....
Much of this country believes the "rebels" were right, because they were fighting for states rights. The slavery issue was secondary. So much of this country would see the "rebel" name as a proud thing.
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