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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It was insensitive--but this business of Massive resistance likely had nothing to do with it.  That is people putting their own point of view on what happened then.  Stuart was a famous Confederate general who had a campsite at Munson Hill.   The SB at that time likely had grandfathers who fought for the Confederacy.  So, it was not at all unusual for them to do that.  Yes, it was insensitive--but there is no documentation to indicate that was what they were doing.  They had reasons to think that geographic names were not a good idea--there is documentation to support that.

This business of attributing evil motives to people who are long dead (the '50's SB members) is ridiculous.  And, it continues with some of the comments made on here about other SB members.

Identity politics is choosing a name (or a candidate) based on their race.  I don't think that the SB at that time thought they had to pick a white person--they were picking a historical figure.  Like it or not, Stuart was a glorified Virginian at that time.  You are placing 2017 attitudes on something that happened over fifty years ago.  Insensitive? Yes.  Spiteful? No.  Just because people repeated it over and over from our current SB, does not make it true. 
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Stuart was a marginal figure who spent but a limited amount of time in the area. For the all white school to think was yet another white guy to put on a pedestal was pure identity politics.  Good riddance.[/quote]

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