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[quote=Anonymous][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? This is stupid.[/quote]

This is the most absurd argument ever.  Changing a school name so that it doesn't honor a slaveholder is not changing the past! It's learning from the past and changing out actions now and we realize, oh, that's really not cool to honor that person this way!! I can't understand people who think changing the name of a random high school suddenly erases that person from history![/quote]

The high school isn't named to honor a slaveholder.  How clueless are you?

No wonder we can't have discussions anymore when people spout nonsense like that.  [/quote]

Then please clue me in on why the school is named George Mason.[/quote]

Here:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason

For example:  "His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. [u]The Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Mason principally authored, served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights, a document of which he has been deemed a father.[/u]"[/quote]

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