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[quote=Anonymous]NPR recently had a story about a small town that wanted to name a building after their long-time superintendent of schools, Bob Lee. Then it came out that his full name was Robert Edward Lee. Even though Bob Lee had been a champion of desegregation and had no relation to the historical Robert E. Lee, this gave the townspeople pause. The OP is trying to pretend that something similar is happening with the VA streets and monuments -- it's somehow an unfortunate coincidence that names that once were entirely unobjectionable are now tainted. That just isn't the truth. These names were objectionable the day they were bestowed. And the people doing the naming knew exactly what they were doing. [/quote]
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