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To: RetiredArmy

Good question.

The number of years ago in New Orleans they deleted the name of George Washington School. They did this because they did not want to honor someone who owns slaves.

There’s no word on whether the virtually all black student body at that school has greater achievements are greater self-esteem now that they don’t have to go to a school named after a slave owner.


5 posted on 06/07/2020 7:58:54 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Down in Montgomery, Alabama here, there is Lee High School. Robert E. Lee High School that is. Wonder when the hammer falls down there?


11 posted on 06/07/2020 8:01:10 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Friends at FR - Are you prepared to meet the LORD??? Do you KNOW Him? Do so today!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Taking down monuments and changing names because the person so honored owned slaves will not change U.S. history. The people who owned slaves whose names and statues are now not PC were acting within the norms of their own times. It is ridiculous to judge them by today’s behavioral norms. Only idiots and libtard-fogged fools would suddenly “be outraged” at statues which had sat there for a hundred years. They are a part of our history, which cannot be changed. It happened. Revising history is always dangerous; George Santayana famously said, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”


36 posted on 06/07/2020 8:21:29 AM PDT by EinNYC
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