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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I understand what you're insinuating and it's a bogus argument. Need only look at Germany after WWII to understand. [/quote]

You do understand that the Germans were treated quite differently after WWII than WWI?  It was called the Marshall Plan.

Look it up.

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Oh now the US and allies are to blame for WW2 because we didn't do enough for Germany?

Germany was divided into two countries after WW2.  Supervisor:  The USSR.  How many Russians died?  Germany is back and runs most of Europe.
Should it have remained 2 countries after the change from communism?

Meanwhile there is a Stuart that has an extremely positive history in education for African Americans.  Alice Jackson Stuart was rejected by UVA for graduate school in 1935.  She was the first African American to apply and ended up at Columbia.  Because she applied to UVA, VA did something negative and set up funds for AA's to attend grad school out of state.

Naming it after Alice Jackson Stuart is the ultimate bite for anyone who wanted to intimidate AA's on the subject of education.  Replacing a pro-slavery confederate general with an AA woman denied enrollment in his state's flagship university because she was black?  Plus she was an academic and her son was also extremely successful-superior ct judge.   In an era when few of any race went to college look what she did.   That is the kind of person a school should be named after.

Here she is:  http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/vawomen/2012/?bio=stuart

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I wrote up the Peace Valley names (long ago in this thread), but Alice Jackson Stuart sounds GREAT!
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