Posted on 05/10/2024 11:15:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
WOODSTOCK, Va. — A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed.
Shenandoah County’s school board voted 5-1 to rename Mountain View High School as Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary as Ashby Lee Elementary.
Friday’s vote reverses a decision by the school board in 2020, a time when school systems across the South were removing Confederate names from schools in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The hosts of CBS Mornings for Blacks were quite triggered by this, Both Gayle "Oprah" King and Vladimir Duthiers were in shock, and wondered how Black students could honor these historic figures.
I guess we have all heard of old stonewall, but could a freeper fill me in on Ashby Lee?
Asby Lee is two names, Turner Ashby and Robert E. Lee
Thanks. I will google Turner Ashby.
Bttt
Turner Ashby was killed in combat during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign in 1862.
Honey Run High. Was a septic truck their mascot?
I still can't believe they forced thousands of schools to change their names, locally it's the so called indian names.
Ahh-h-h yes, the taste of liberal tears is quite good. The denizens of DemocratUnderachievers are simply apoplectic over this event.
I hope this is a trend.
I want UNC Chapel Hill to do the right thing and return “Silent Sam”. They have him hidden away in darkness with no one to hear his silent tears.
“I want UNC Chapel Hill to do the right thing and return “Silent Sam”.”
So much was made of the fact old Sam didn’t have a cartridge box. Old Sam wouldn’t hurt a flea.
What happened to old Sam reminds us: never give up your cartridge boxes, me boys; never give up your cartridge boxes.
History is written by the victors so the south has been demonized for the Civil war. Like jefferson davis said, “All we want is to be left alone.”
“All we want is to be left alone.”
*****
This still applies.
May 10th is a state holiday in SC: confederate memorial day. The DMV was closed.
Dixie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__kQX12S9YI
i hope this is a trend.
Nikki Haley and Mark Levin will be big mad.
Thanks for the info.
Good for them from this Yankee rebel.
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