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School board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names
Reuters ^ | 05 10 2024 | Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte

Posted on 05/10/2024 7:43:51 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

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1 posted on 05/10/2024 7:43:51 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

heads exploding in 3, 2, 1....


2 posted on 05/10/2024 7:44:55 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: yesthatjallen

Now all heck will break loose.........................


3 posted on 05/10/2024 7:45:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

So Confederate, Sheila Jackson Lee will get to keep her names.


4 posted on 05/10/2024 7:45:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Good. History of our civilization.


5 posted on 05/10/2024 7:45:57 AM PDT by PGalt (Past peak civilization?)
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‘Bout effin time someone stood up to the wokeness! May I have some more, please?!!!!


6 posted on 05/10/2024 7:46:01 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: yesthatjallen

Not good to honor either slavers or black radical favorites like Trayvon Martin. There are plenty of patriotic, freedom- loving-for-all Americans whose names could have been used.


7 posted on 05/10/2024 7:46:06 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the U.S. to take such an action.

By a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County board overturned its 2020 decision that stripped a public high school and elementary school of their original names honoring three military leaders of the pro-slavery South in the Civil War.

No bias here! Interesting that they don't mention they were all Democrats...

8 posted on 05/10/2024 7:49:16 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: yesthatjallen

We Texans want Fort Hood restored.


9 posted on 05/10/2024 7:51:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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Boo hoo. I suggest you buy some pearls to clutch.


10 posted on 05/10/2024 7:51:06 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Socon-Econ

I agree, and in general I don’t think school boards should be spending time and money on this.


11 posted on 05/10/2024 7:52:57 AM PDT by karpov
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To: yesthatjallen

“Making the mostly Nazi population the first in the state to do so.”

Give me a freaking break from this yellow journalism.

These were 3 of the best generals fighting to preserve their ideas of the Republic. Lee himself spent the years after the civil war trying to reunify the country.


12 posted on 05/10/2024 7:59:09 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: karpov; NathanBedfordForrest

Given where the district resides, the schools are named after three people who did a good deal to keep what were perceived as invaders at bay, at least one of whom can be considered a local boy who made good.

Ashby is an interesting person—he held that the raid on Harper’s Ferry marked the beginning of the civil war, and while he opposed session, opposition meant he thought that it was imprudent—not that it absolved him of his duty to his state and fellow Virginians. Some Yankees lit a fire in his belly by bayonetting his brother while he brother was attempting to surrender.

He also sounds like he would have fit better with Forrest than Jackson, under whom he actually served.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Ashby


13 posted on 05/10/2024 8:00:11 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
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They fought against the Republic of the United States. Lee deserves honor for the way he surrendered and you are right, he worked to reunify the Country.


14 posted on 05/10/2024 8:03:47 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OFRICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER ngressman is.GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hpw about also honoring the brave Texans who stayed loyal to the US.


15 posted on 05/10/2024 8:04:21 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OFRICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER ngressman is.GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Good for them!


16 posted on 05/10/2024 8:09:32 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Socon-Econ

But your comment suggests you don’t understand the low IQ in political correctness.


17 posted on 05/10/2024 8:11:39 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: cowboyusa

They can start by having their illegal Mexican labor movement to put back all the Texas Ranger statues and memorials the breakfast tacos were made to tear down by corrupt gringos.


18 posted on 05/10/2024 8:12:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson were among the most honorable Americans ever.


19 posted on 05/10/2024 8:12:59 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Agree


20 posted on 05/10/2024 8:14:18 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OFRICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER ngressman is.GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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