San Diego lawmaker now wants to rename Robert E. Lee Elementary School

Fox 5 San Diego ^ | 06/24/2015

[SeekAndFind]

SAN DIEGO — A lawmaker called Tuesday on the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School because of the namesake’s ties to the Confederacy.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, sent a letter to SDUSD Superintendent Cindy Marten that referred to the shooting deaths of the pastor and eight parishioners of a historic black church in Charleston. The school district did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue.

The attack is being investigated as a hate crime. The 21-year-old accused gunman, who is white, had posed with a Confederate flag in photos posted online.

South Carolina’s governor has since called for the Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Are we absolutely certain that this Robert E. Lee Elementary School was in fact named for the Confederate general?

Possible but highly unlikely.

According to this site:

http://www.kusi.com/story/29391496/san-diego-unified-school-district-contemplates-name-change-for-robert-e-lee-elementary

Lee Elementary first opened on January 12, 1959. Historical school data shows it was always Robert E. Lee Elementary and that the reason for the name selected was “American soldier and educator.”

Unless we can find another famous Robert E. Lee who is a famous solider and educator, it has to be named after THE Robert E. Lee.

[Pelham]

“There are some posters on FR who hate Robert E. Lee and would fully agree.”

You should have heard Hugh Hewitt on his radio show yesterday. He couldn’t be happier about the purge of all Confederate symbols and memory from public life. This sort of ethnic cleansing gets his full support.

I haven’t listened to Michael Medved to hear his take but I’ll be surprised if it differs from Hewitt. You get the party line of the GOP elite from those two.

[SeekAndFind]

If this school changes its name, this Virginia University will be next:

[Pelham]

“Excuse me for a moment while I process exactly how a Mexican in California (and I assume she has no American lineage past about 2 generations) has any standing to address anything about the Civil War?”

Because our pals in the GOP leadership think that they are far more important than old stock Americans. They are the future, gabachos are the past. Órale!

[Resolute Conservative]

The city of Washington DC and the state of Washington need to change their names as well. Along with Jefferson City, Madison Wisconsin and any other named after evil white conquerors.

[tanknetter]

Lee was paroled by Grant. But I don’t think he has ever been pardoned.

Reason is that in order to be pardoned CSA officers had to request it. Lee was reluctant, but eventually persuaded to. The request landed on the desk of Republican Secretary of State Seward. Who promptlt disappeared, er, lost it.

[Terry L Smith]

a mexican descendent politician in a state far away from the historical Dixie, is attempting to remove the name of one of America’s finest generals?

Bad enough the Negroes want that.

But a Californian mexican???

G.F’d!

[LouAvul]

Wow. The opportunist whores are coming out of the woodwork.

[LouAvul]

see what happens when the costumed mascot shows up at school events.

After a dozen ISIS attacks on US soil perpetuated by ragheads smuggled in by POTUS.

[Political Junkie Too]

What about Monrovia, Liberia? Can an African country founded by African-Americans be racist?

-PJ

[Buckeye McFrog]

Despite being on the losing side, Lee was one of the most honorable men in our history.

[DoodleDawg]

What the hell does Robert E. Lee have to do with Dylann Storm Roof, anyway?

What the hell does Robert E. Lee have to do with San Diego? He never visited California. He never served there while in the army. He has no ties to the city or the state. To be clear I'm not supporting the idea of renaming the school, just wondering why it was named that in the first place. Is there a Junipero Serra Elementary School anywhere in Virginia?

[MplsSteve]

I think what surprised me most about this article is that there was a school named for Lee that was outside of the South.

That’s something you usually don’t see much.

[SoFloFreeper]

ha ha ha

[Mears]

“The news media used a single act by a single individual to take away our freedom of speech.”

—

That says it all.

The incredible frenzy about the elimination of the confederate flag has given that young man more power than he deserves.

Astonishing.

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[Milton Miteybad]

I also thought it unlikely. However, the San Diego school board could find some otherwise anonymous schmoe named "Robert E. Lee" and offer the pretense that the school is named for him, not the "evil" American soldier and educator.

This would be a mere variation on a theme of historical revisionism borrowed from King County, Washington. King County, of course, had been named for William Rufus King, an Alabaman who had been serving as Vice-President of the U.S. when the Washington Territory was created in 1852. In 1986, the King County Council approved a resolution revising the historical basis for the county name; no longer would the county be named for William Rufus King (for whom the county was, in truth and in fact, actually named.) Instead, King County was to have been deemed to be so named in honor of Martin Luther King, who, in truth and in fact, did not even exist at the time the county was organized, and who therefore could not possibly have been its actual namesake. This change was approved by the Washington Legislature and signed by the Governor in 2005.

So as long as the anonymous schlub named "Robert E. Lee" that they manage to find isn't in prison or on a sexual predator list, the school board would be in like the proverbial Flynn in declaring that the school is named for this anonymous schlub over here named Robert E. Lee, not that other guy. The precedent is there, after all.

[rockrr]

We have a Robert E. Lee elementary school in Wenatchee (eastern) Washington.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I think Robert E. Lee served in the U.S. Army during the U.S. - Mexican War in the late 1840’s. Maybe that’s the connection.

Or perhaps a Southerner re-located to California at some point and was in a position of authority at the time the school was built and subsequently named? Who knows.

[DoodleDawg]

Or perhaps a Southerner re-located to California at some point and was in a position of authority at the time the school was built and subsequently named? Who knows.

The more likely explanation. You can take the boy out of Dixie...

[Fiji Hill]

You should have heard Hugh Hewitt on his radio show yesterday. He couldn’t be happier about the purge of all Confederate symbols and memory from public life. This sort of ethnic cleansing gets his full support.

I haven’t listened to Michael Medved to hear his take but I’ll be surprised if it differs from Hewitt. You get the party line of the GOP elite from those two.

You won't be surprised. I listened to Medved yesterday, and his view was much the same as Hewitt's. I listen to both to learn what the GOPe party line for the day is.