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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t have an issue  with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center. [/quote]

My understanding is they came close to renaming Stuart High after a local Hispanic man who was a WWII hero but some School Board members were worried that would offend the NAACP so they vetoed it.   “Justice High” does sound like a school for kids in juvenile detention.[/quote]

When will the US get beyond its fixation on racial identity groups?  The NAACP would be offended by renaming the school after an Hispanic war hero?!!  That’s nuts.  The Republican right is increasingly fascist while the Democratic Left is overly focused on the politics of identity and intersectionality.  Why not choose the name of a trans POC?  That would surely trump naming the school after a war hero’![/quote]

After centuries of race-based slavery, Jim Crow laws, legal segregation, and the “one drop rule”, you wonder when the US will “get beyond its fixation on racial identity groups?  Good question. Perhaps when the US repairs the egregious harms that it has perpetrated and perpetuated on POC, most notably Black and Indigenous Americans.

If you’re ranting about the “politics of identity and intersectionality” that strongly suggests that you’ve never been negatively affected by policies that politicized your identity to your detriment. Must be nice? [/quote]

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