#Virginia school board restores #Confederate leaders’ names to 2 #schools
The change comes 4 years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by #GeorgeFloyd’s killing.
Like other #SchoolDistricts across the #South, the county had decided to remove the #Confederate leaders’ names during the national reckoning about race sparked by the 2020 killing of #GeorgeFloyd.
Private donations will fund the implementation of the name change, according to the school board’s meeting agenda.
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools.
CNN reports from Shenandoah County, where the schools were renamed four years ago. "That 2020 move was part of a resolution condemning racism and affirming the district’s 'commitment to an inclusive school environment.'" None of the 2020 board members still serve.
When #republicans lose an election, they break everything like petulant children.
When #republicans win an election, they break everything like petulant children.
Personally, I want #republican states to become independent from the US so the remaining Democracy can recapture the secession states after they are cut off from power and water sources.
The #confederate#fascists and #slavers need a good reminder after a few generations of subversive treason. They all got off without consequence back in 1865.
#Abbott’s accusation that the federal government has breached the #Constitution by having “broken the compact between the United States and the States” is almost identical to South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of #secession.
Furthermore, Abbott espouses the fringe theory of constitutional law known as “compact theory,” popularized by #Confederate states during the #CivilWar era and supported by Confederate President #JeffersonDavis.
Abbott and his allies are adopting #Confederate rhetoric in his quest to seize control of the border and subject #migrants to anguish and death. By embracing the Confederate theory of the nation as a mere compact, he has freed himself to take even more aggressive measures against the federal government. We have been here before. It does not end well.