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Virginia board is set to return names of the Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson, Turner Ashby and Robert E Lee to two schools after they were changed during George Floyd protests
Daily Mail ^ | 5/19/2022 | James Gordon

Posted on 05/22/2022 6:33:34 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

Two Virginia schools which had been named after Confederate generals and soldiers and which changed their names in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, are to revert back to their earlier names.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: ashby; floyd; jackson; lee; nikkisfault; stonewall
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To: Socon-Econ

Yes, the point is that they were real people who had a real influence on our country. We’re not talking about a lunatic like Hitler, who will certainly never get a monument...but just people whose policies may have been just or unjust, right or wrong, but were acting in a rational political way and had an impact on our country.

Erasing them doesn’t help in any way. Their positive actions are something to be commemorated while their mistakes and even bad actions are something to be learned from - but none of this can happen if we erase them and pretend they never existed.


61 posted on 05/22/2022 3:24:51 PM PDT by livius
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To: FLT-bird

Can we cancel MLK for being a communist, a plagiarist, and adulterer, and an abuser of his white prostitutes?


62 posted on 05/23/2022 7:15:43 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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