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That board member, Gloria Carlineo, said during the six-hour meeting that began Thursday night that opponents of the Confederate names should “stop bringing racism and prejudice into everything”
Abraham Lincoln: "Owning black people is racist"
Stonewall Jackson: "Why do you need to bring race into everything?"
How can anyone talk about the Confederacy and not talk about racism? It was the entire point of the Confederacy!
What is Conservative about honoring traitors to the country?
You meant to say slavers, right? The founding fathers were traitors to the crown, its not strictly a bad thing
They were traitors. Do you think fighting against your country for the right to own slaves is more conservative than being a traitor for other reasons?
The slavery is the bad bit here.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In Virginia, local governments had been banned from removing Confederate memorials and statues until the law was changed in 2020, though the statute did not apply to school names.
Beth Ogle, a longtime resident with children in the school system, said restoring the Confederate names is “a statement to the world that you do not value the dignity and respect of your minority students, faculty and staff.”
“Stonewall” Jackson was a Confederate general from Virginia who gained fame at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas in 1861 and died in 1863 after he was shot and had his arm amputated.
Shenandoah County, a largely rural jurisdiction with a population of about 45,000, roughly 100 miles west of the nation’s capital, has long been politically conservative.
Maizlish, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, said it’s unusual, though not unprecedented, that conservative jurisdictions like Shenandoah removed Confederate names in the first place.
She said that while there’s no evidence other jurisdictions have restored Confederate names or monuments, she is “always concerned about people who work to continue to promote Lost Cause propaganda.”
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