I am not a liberal. I am not a conservative.
I do not send children to this school, but as an abstract issue, I wish to comment.
First, I think that a huge majority of the students at this school will not care what it is called. They will be a lot more concerned about what is in the school, not what name is on the outside. That should be the focus of your concern, not the damn name.
Next, Robert E. Lee means different things to different people.
You appear to want to say that it only means hate. Seems YOU are the one doing the hating here.
I am a simple uneducated man, so maybe I am wrong, but I think that Robert E. Lee joined the confederate cause because he believed in the principle of states rights. He felt that the federal government should not be able to bully individual states.
That is an old debate going far back to the very birth of our nation, and still going on today. States rights deserves to be heard as a point of view.
Maybe you prefer to say a slaveholder cannot be anything but totally evil.
Well, there is a library in my city of Washington DC named after Martin Luther King. I couldn't care less what they call it, the staff are still all snotty and incompetent.
Anyway. Martin Luther King was supposedly some kind of Christian preacher, right? And the bible very explicitly prohibits adultery? Yet the FBI have hours and hours and hours of spy audio proving that this guy cheated no his wife, having sex with hundreds of women.
I dont' care about that. What bothers me is the Martin Luther King enthusiastically and literally embraced Malcom X.
Remember him? No? Well he was a criminal drug addict black who loudly and frequently advocated the violent overthrow of the US government and the murder of all white people.
Remember the lovely folks who crashed planes into the towers on 9/11? Musilims.
And Malcom X founded "The Nation of Islam".
My real point is that building names are bullshit.
You liberals cannot erase the passionate feelings and thoughts of people who disagree with you by trying to create a FASCIST state of Political Correctness.
That leads to Joesph Stalin and communisit russia.
You ideas are DOOMED to fail.
cut the shit. Get rid of teacher unions. Quadruple teacher pay. Hire only the best, and fire them instantly if they fail to produce results.
progressive 1 2 Wrote:
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> Only a few hundred more signatures are needed to
> wipe out this hateful name.
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https://www.change.org/p/fairfax-county-school-boa
> rd-change-the-name-of-robert-e-lee-high-school-in-
> springfield-va