Reply to APS: What's in a name? (Washington-Lee)

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "APS: What's in a name? (Washington-Lee)"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Raise your hand if you'd change your name because someone didn't like it. If not, STFU.[/quote]

I’m sure that many students there today would like to change the name of their school. They don’t want to celebrate someone who fought the US to preserve slavery. 
[/quote]

Keep drinking the kool aid. It wasn't about slavery.[/quote]

What history books are you reading?  It absolutely was about slavery.  The only reason we kept it together during the revolution was we had a common enemy...Great Britain.  But, there were the cracks from the very beginning.

[/quote]

Why did 4 slave holding states fight for the union?[/quote]

Lincoln had to make a strategic concessions.  Yes, they had slaves but, he didn't want to DC to be surrounded by the enemy.  He would have lost the union and then slavery would still exist.    This way, he got the four states on his side and then when they won slavery could be abolished and it was.  Too bad Lincoln was murdered because the South basically ruled by fear and kept blacks in slavery without the name slavery.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics