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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we renaming George mason?  [/quote]
He owned over 100 slaves.  Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.[/quote]

Can we learn from the past rather than try to change the past? [b]This is stupid.[/b][/quote]

Yes, your comment is stupid.  You can't change the past.  Even after the name change, the past will be exactly the same, we just won't be celebrating his legacy with a school name.[/quote]

We need to rename the Commonwealth of Virginia.  The state is named after Elizabeth I, the British Monarch that approved John Hawkins slave voyages which was England’s start into the slave trade that would go one for 100s of years and enslave countless people.  How dare we not demand that the Bame of the state not be changed!!  This is fun.[/quote]

Lord Fairfax was an actual slave trader.  We need to rename the county too. [/quote]

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