New Name for JEB Stuart HS - 9/16 Community Vote
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Anonymous
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twitter.com/galber
Totally grassroots: NOT |
Anonymous
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https://patch.com/virginia/fairfaxcity/fairfax-county-naacp-member-appointed-fairfax-county-human-rights-commission
"Alber will continue to lead the NAACP advocacy to change the name of Stuart High School." |
Anonymous
quoted that wrong: "Alber will continue to lead the NAACP’s initiative to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School in coordination with various other community groups, according to the Fairfax County NAACP. |
Anonymous
| Sounds to me like the NAACP is taking credit for the change. |
Anonymous
You need only read Alber's twitter feed--you know, the man who led the NAACP initiative to change the name......... |
Anonymous
| i.e. NOT false narrative ^^^ |
Anonymous
Did he vote when he wasn't allowed to? Did he force community members to vote a certain way? Did he force all the people who spoke about potential names to go to the podium and advocate. False narrative that they can decide the name. No they can't. Only community members can. He can take all the credit he wants to, but he CANNOT decide the name. You're mad that community members might agree with something the NAACP supports? You're mad that many of those community members are White? You're mad that names of historical blacks figures garnered a significant amount of votes despite black students only comprising 11 percent of the student population at Stuart? News flash, many community members can look beyond their own race and pick someone like Justice Marshall, who happened to be a very accomplished member of this community. The two parents handing out fliers supporting Johns at back to school night at Glasgow were White community members. Again, stop being blinded by your hatred for the NAACP. |
Anonymous
I don't hate the NAACP--I'm not the anti-NAACP poster--but to those who said that the NAACP did not push for this, they are mistaken. It was organized by the NAACP. The NAACP was there to nominate names. The NAACP was involved from the very beginning. Sandy Evans communicated with the NAACP from the very beginning. This was not a student led protest. |
Anonymous
It's sad that, at every relevant juncture, not that many members of the community have been heard. It's created a dynamic where the NAACP has played an outsized role. Its two preferred candidates, Marshall and Johns, are constantly promoted by a small group of self-appointed changers. Never mind that neither was the top choice earlier this month, and there's no evidence most students or community members want the name "Marshall" or "Johns." Yes, Thurgood Marshall lived in the area, but he was not an active member of the community and he sent his own sons to private schools. Johns has no local connection and naming a high school "Johns" is just inviting trash-talk. |
Anonymous
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Stuart received the most votes.
Stuart costs the least money. The SB indicated support for "Stuart" in their motion. They will not choose "Stuart" and they will tick off the taxpayers. McElveen started spinning as soon as the vote came out--even though he voted for the motion. Shows he never meant it. |
Anonymous
| updates? |
Anonymous
The Board doesn't want Stuart and they don't want Johns. Seems like it will be "Justice HS," Louis G. Mendez HS, or Peace Valley HS. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
It would be odd for the Board to pick Mendez since it was a distant 5th place. I would pick Peace Valley to avoid the issues with picking a name of a person that came behind 3 other choices by a very big margin. The others were all above 700 and Mendez was in the 300s. |
Anonymous
| This is why Trump won. You idiots think the loudest screaming social justice warriors are the majority. They are the crazy minority, no one cares. |