Current Events > Another School Named After A Confederate Leader Will Now Be Named After Obama

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I'm so here for this. Get all these memorials and recognition of them outta here

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/mbvd/confederate-school-renamed-barack-obama-elementary?utm_term=4ldqpgc&bftwnews=&__twitter_impression=true

The Richmond School Board voted Monday to rename a Virginia school that used the moniker of a Confederate leader to the Barack Obama Elementary School.

The vote was 6-1 to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School, the last remaining school in Richmond named for a Confederate leader.

It would be pretty awesome to have an elementary school in Richmond named after Barack Obama, Liz Doerr, a member of the school board, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

The school's student body is more than 90% black.

There were seven options for renaming the school, including Oliver Hill Elementary, after a local civil rights attorney, and Henry Marsh Elementary, after the first black mayor of Richmond. Kenya Gibson, the board's lone nay vote, told the Times-Dispatch that she was disappointed with the lack of local options for names.

The debate around whether monuments, flags, and institutions should honor the Confederacy was ignited in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer when white nationalists protested against the removal of a Confederate statue. After the rally, a car drove into a group of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.

The name of J.E.B. Stuart, who was a slaveholding Confederate general from Virginia, was removed last year from a school in Falls Church, Virginia, which is about a 2-hour drive north of Richmond. The school was renamed Justice High School.

The Richmond elementary school is now the second school whose name has been changed from that of a Confederate leader to that of former president Obama, following a Mississippi school's name change last year.

There are as many as 100 schools in the US still named for Confederate leaders, including at least 15 in Virginia, according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Why not name it after someone honorable? If they want to name the school after a black person, then there's plenty of great choices like Kanye or Ben Carson. Obama was terrible for this country.
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Good, I don't see why any public institution like a school should be named after a Confederate traitor.
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The first black president is far more historically important than a random general from a failed racist rebellion. Considering that the student body is 90% black, this is even more of an appropriate choice.

DifferentialEquation posted...

Why not name it after someone honorable? If they want to name the school after a black person, then there's plenty of great choices like Kanye or Ben Carson. Obama was terrible for this country.

I realize you think this is funny, but Im trying to imagine someone whose primary hobby is creating a persona on some obscure social forum.
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Racists will be upset.
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Barack HUSSEIN Obama elementary
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This will go over so well.
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I didnt read the article, but if that is what the community wants I dont see any problem with that.
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Out of all the presidents, why that piece of shit?
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Good. Fuck the confederates
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Thanks Obama
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NeonOctopus posted...

Thanks Obama

Thanks Obama Elementary School

TOES
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voldothegr8 posted...

Out of all the presidents, why that piece of shit?

Found DEs alt.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Out of all the presidents, why that piece of shit?

https://imgur.com/DKhtxET
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