Virginia School Board Votes To Rename Robert E. Lee High School | MSNBC

Amanda Golden reports from Springfield, Virginia, where the school board has voted to rename Robert E. Lee High School.
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Virginia School Board Votes To Rename Robert E. Lee High School | MSNBC

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    1. @Shockreaper
      It already ended.
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    2. @chris mclaughlin People dont even do research on the man. They are very ignorant to actual history and only assume things.

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  2. Yay! Joseph Campbell said, “If you want to change the world, change the metaphor.” Congratulations to the Virginia School Board for changing the metaphor and, thereby, changing the world.

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  3. Trevor Noah told a funny story about a school district that decided to rename everything named after General Lee, but wanted to cut costs replacing the signs, stationary, etc. by renaming them after other people named Lee. Trevor Noah suggested Spike Lee and Stan Lee, which would be awesome. My kid wondered about Bruce Lee, too.

  4. I attended Robert E. Lee Elementary, and it was changed a couple of years ago. It didn’t matter then to a grade schooler, but I’m glad now.

    1. Chris P. Bacon You’re actually making the point that the name does not matter, then or now. 💯😂

    2. @24james It did matter then, I just didn’t know it. It’s relevant now in light of recent events. I’m proud that it was changed without any social upheaval.

    3. @Chris P. Bacon Of COURSE it mattered. If you’re an impressionable young student at a SCHOOL, from the instant the Civil War comes up in history class, you’ll *begin* to get **some kind** of education (or indoctrination) about what it all meant. And glorifying Lee and the Confederacy should have quite an effect on people of color who go to that school.

      How do you think the young black students and their parents feel about sending their children to a school that honors a man who fought to keep their ancestors in bondage? How do they feel if they understand that the people in authority all around them revere him and all he stood for?

      And it also has an effect on the white students, too: many of them start to get brainwashed with the idea that the Confederate Flag stands for “heritage, and not hate”; which is complete apologist bullsh*t.

  5. They might as well change the name of Route 1 (currently Jefferson Davis Hwy)! Glad they are finally taking down honoring confederate traitors. Thanks.

    1. Simple: because they *still* believe in what he stood for: treason, slavery and subjugation of fellow human beings.

  6. Look conservatives… If you want to pray and idolize losers… Put up statues of Judas Iscariot… or Benedict Arnold.

  7. *Better late than never… Now let’s get Mississippi to dump its bigoted flag*

    1. I attend Joseph Stalin High School… I don’t understand what all the fuss is about…😉

  8. If there’s ever going to be serious change in this country, it has to start in our schools.

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