Change The Name! Wrote:
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> Change J.E.B. Stuart's name to something less
> offensive! Add your suggestions for the new name
> in the "class year" field of this survey and show
> up to the meeting listed at the end of the survey
> please!
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/alumcomm
You know who else purges historical names, artifacts and monuments from their society? ISIS.
If this mentality snowballs, why stop at schools? Anybody offended at Lee Highway? Let's just clean up Fairfax County entirely and number everything. "Bill Euille (mayor of the city of Alexandria) tells Washington Post City council will review flags, statues, building and street names when it reconvenes in September." Can Fairfax County Board resist following this lead, budget constraints or not?
Why stop at Jeb? If you're going to erase history and anybody associated with slave history we need to purge any schools, streets, statues, districts (Mason for example) with the names… Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses Grant, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Robert E Lee, James Monroe, James K Polk, Zachary Taylor, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, George Washington, George Mason, James Madison and the villain in the petition, W. T. Woodson. No doubt we'll find others.