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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Not only is there extensive evidence that Confederate monuments, schools, and flying the CBF went up during the Civil Rights movement, the very school was are discussing was named for a Confederate in 1958. So, yes, maybe in the big wide world there are a handful of schools named for Robert E Lee that were thusly named before Brown v. Board, but the evidence isn't on your side here. [/quote]

Trends have nothing to do with evidence.  Just because you want to believe it does not mean it is true.  These Board members supported and encouraged the demeaning of earlier Board members with no evidence.  Look around Fairfax County.  This was an area of the Deep South in those days.  Manassas is just a few miles away.  [/quote]

So...you are trying to argue that the decision to call a newly integrated school by the name of a Confederate figure was a coincidence, and your evidence is that Virginia was "an area of the Deep South" at the time?

How do you expect that to convince a reasonable person that the reason behind the name was not racial animus, particularly considering all that Fairfax County was doing to avoid integration? [/quote]

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