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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 it.

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

Because sleeping around is the same as owning other people... :roll: [/quote]

Uh, seems like it wasn’t just “sleeping around.”[/quote]

You are equating slavery of millions to...sex?  
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The allegation was that he witnessed a rape and did nothing, not just that he was a serial adulterer.  It may have been a fabricated claim, but it is documented in files in the National Archives.

So maybe no schools should be named after individuals, given their flaws. [/quote]

Seems extreme to equate one personal mistake to...killing 600k Americans because you want to enslave 4 million people.

But I'm OK naming schools without reference to people or (in Virginia) plantations. Number system would be fine.

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Sounds like plenty more than “one personal mistake” there. [/quote]

I’m sorry. Are you still trying to equate anything shady MLK may have done with killing 600k Americans to keep 4 million people enslaved? 
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Of course not. But Woodrow Wilson shouldnt be equated with that either.  And yet his name has been stripped from what is supposed to be DC’s best high school.[/quote]

That community rejected WW for his role in Jim Crow laws. He actively oppressed black people via public policy. It was a big deal and had ongoing negative impacts for decades.

What’s the issue with wanting a better inspiration for your community? 
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