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+1000.  And, not to start another new topic, but this is why the whole Wilson name change movement is just another example of [b]clueless limousine liberals trying to make some sort of cosmetic social justice warrior statement[/b] that will have ZERO effect on the kids there that are really struggling.  Take the time and money that is being spent on this and invest in real solutions to trying to close the achievement gap.[/quote]

You have no awareness whatsoever of who is behind the movement to rename Wilson, but instead of doing the absolute minimum work to find out, you derail this thread in order to post inaccurate nonsense based entirely on invented stereotypes that you find appealing.  You need to do better.

One of the reasons behind efforts like the effort to rename Wilson is that perception matters -- both the perception of black people by others and black people's perception of themselves -- including black kids that make up one side of the achievement gap.  White society has a comfortable narrative that the civil war was over 100 years ago, racism is no longer a problem, and the achievement gap is about bad parenting.  The less comfortable truth is that white society has predatorily victimized black and brown people repeatedly in ways that derailed progress that those communities have made.  Woodrow Wilson is an example -- by re-segregating the federal government, he decimated DC's emerging black middle class.  By using eminent domain to take over black owned land where Ft. Reno is now, he uprooted a thriving community.  This story has been repeated over and over and over -- from slavery times to the backlash against reconstruction to segregation and Jim Crow to today's voter suppression and unequal policing.  Efforts to rename institutions that honor racists who actively worked against the black community matter in reducing the achievement gap.

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