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Reply to "Looks like some more schools need to have their names changed (Thomas Jefferson)"
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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the whole thread, but it is vital that this discussion include the fact that this school was named for Stuart in 1958. That's four years after Brown v. Board. Two years after Virginia voters decide to fund private schools with public funds in order to continue segregation. One year after the Civil Rights Act is signed into law. THE SAME YEAR Virginia was finally forced to desegregate. This is not a coincidence. Confederate leaders were being honored BECAUSE OF the Civil Rights Movement, not in spite of it. These names were a deliberate "f*ck you" to all of the Black kids who would be able to walk through the doors of a brand new desegregated high school. There's no history here except a history of white supremacy and involuntary desegregation. It was a choice made to humiliate Black children, and the fact that it took 60 years to be undone is abhorrent. [/quote]
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