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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to JEB Stuart and can definitely say that (1) most people were aware he was a Confederate general, and (2) by the time the county painted over the Confederate flag on our gym floor, the county was somewhat embarrassed to have named a school after him.

I'll always have attended JEB Stuart HS, but future students deserve better.  [/quote]

Our country is no longer in anyway embarrassed to have named a school after him.  There are people fighting tooth and nail to keep the name.  Things have definitely changed since I went to school, and not for the better.  No matter what the name change, this process will be a loss in my eyes because it opened them to the biogotry that now permeates the community in which my impressionable kids are growing up.  We will all retreat into our smaller communities of people from our own ethnic backgrounds, with no empathy for what others have experienced.  Not the America I envisioned 20 years ago, but such is life. [/quote]

Yup. Pretty sad. 
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