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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Every school named after a white man or woman was identity politics.[/quote]

You don't understand the meaning of the term.[/quote]

If you've yet to realize that a 1958 decision of an all-white school board to name a school after a Confederate general wasn't an act of identity politics, I'm not sure there's much left to be done for you.[/quote]

+1 Especially since Brown v. Board of Education was front and center of political discourse at the time.  When whites do something to honor a white person, it's just normal.  When a minority is honored, it's identity politics.  Nothing will change that narrative.  Maybe the Board wasn't playing identity politics. Maybe they tried to come up with a name that somehow related to Marshall and Johns because combined they had 1,500 votes.  But because they are black, trying to come up with a solution that took those votes into consideration is "ignoring the votes and playing identity politics."  See how that works. [/quote]

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