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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hell to the no.

My ancestor is TJ and he may have owned slaves but *shrug* lots of people did back then.  It's a reality of history.

[b]I hope this current trend of erasure ends soon, because it's incredibly silly and dumb[/b].[/quote]

+1
I think the only positive thing about the effort to erase our history is that it is forcing our students (and adult population) to do some research about our ancestors.
Truth is...... you would be hard pressed to find ANY human being without faults or blemishes.  We all sin.  That is what makes us human.  [/quote]

I find it tedious also that we are suddenly supposed to be ashamed of our history.  If you are asian, there's a high likelihood you're related to Genghis Khan who is perhaps the most prolific mass murdered in history.  Does that need to be brought up every time?  Probably not.  IF you are white and related to slave owners- okay.  Pretty sure everyone has someone in their history who did something wrong.

We really need to get over this self flagellation as a country.  It's incredibly tedious [/quote]

It's actually the resistance on the part of so many white people to engaging in any type of reflection that makes it so necessary to have this conversation and change these names.[/quote]

Oh, please.  Go back through your family history.  I guarantee you that you will find lots of skeletons and bad behavior on the part of your ancestors.  
Maybe we should do what they do in NYC.  PS 12, PS 162, etc.  Although someone would eventually take issue with a given number assigned to a certain schools because.....people just need to be outraged about something.  [/quote]

You are missing the point, presumably on purpose.  The issue isn't whether all individuals are flawed, but whether we continue in 2017 to honor white men known to history only because they fought to perpetuate the enslavement of black Americans. Perhaps you'll understand this one day, if you choose to remove your head from your posterior, but in the meanwhile others are moving forward.[/quote]

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