HISD board president backs changing Confederate-related names of 6 schools

Houston Chronicle ^ | 6/25/15 | Ericka Mellon

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Amid a growing move to shed symbols of the old, slave-owning South, the Houston school board president said Thursday that she supports renaming six campuses named after Confederate loyalists.

Rhonda Skillern-Jones said she plans to discuss the issue with her fellow trustees at an upcoming meeting. Superintendent Terry Grier added that he is "strongly considering" recommending that the board change the names.

The nation's seventh-largest school district would join a mounting list of agencies and businesses taking steps to shun reminders of the Confederacy following the June 17 shooting deaths of nine black church worshippers by an alleged white supremacist in Charleston, S.C.

[markomalley]

This will not end well...

[markomalley]

Also San Antonio:

Secretary Julián Castro Wants NEISD To Rename Robert E. Lee High School

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro called on the North East Independent School District to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School.

The former San Antonio mayor stated the district should form a committee to identify individuals that are "more appropriate" to honor in a post published to his personal Facebook page on Tuesday.

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Also Dallas:

Symbols of the Confederacy abound in Dallas

Confederate flags might be coming down in other Southern states, but emblems of Texas’ rebel past dot the Dallas landscape in the form of park statues, elementary schools and graveyard memorials.

Past attempts in Dallas to remove the symbols have been unsuccessful — or nonexistent. While some consider them reminders of racist hate, others say they are a part of the state’s history that can’t be erased.

“A lot of these memorials in Texas were built when Confederate soldiers were still alive,” said Gary Bray, commander of the Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “Their government asked them to step forward to fight for their state, and they did.”

[markomalley]

Time to rename the Johnson Space Center:

Source: Kessler, Ronald, Inside the White House [New York, Pocket Books, 1995], 33.

[wardaddy]

Houston is black run

Statewide moderated Texans who are often yankee transplants will fall back on that tried and true vomit that Texas ain’t really southern as though they can ignore their flag, their CSA DEAD, and how sweet tea and southern accents stop Between Amarillo and Tucumcari

The tidal has ebbed and our enemies have taken full advantage to strip America of all white history emboldened by.a weak GOP and cheerleader media and president

It will remain to see who can prevail

The south is only part of it.....they want it all

This is very personal need I say......blood could come from this

[Bulwinkle]

The Democractic Party should change its name as it is a symbol of hate, slavery and traitors who caused the Civil War. A bit of the history of the Democratic Party and the Civil War,
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_democratic.html

Jefferson Davis a Democrat Senator when he turned traitor in 1861

[School of Rational Thought]

I am sick of the ISIS threatening to destroy our cities, calling for our deaths, demanding historic icons be destroyed they don’t like, er…those are the progressives

[odawg]

This erasure of history is what often occurs in dictatorships. It is also the reaction of trashy people.

[tbpiper]

No surprise from a hyphenated woman in a position of authority.

[armydawg505]

That’s the ticket to better schools in Houston!!! Why didn’t we think of that before????