Dear Internet, If you lived in the South in the 1860s, and you were not a slave, you probably would...
Dear Internet,
If you lived in the South in the 1860s, and you were not a slave, you probably would have been on the side of the Confederacy. Even if you weren't white. And maybe even if you were a slave.
I totally get wanting to diminish symbols of the Confederacy. But now we are seeing people wanting to get rid of the names of people from the Confederacy, such as Robert E. Lee. Lee was a great man, and certainly far more worthy of praise than many people who receive similar honor.
San Diego has a lot of schools named after people. John Adams legally defended the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre. Albert Einstein helped create the atomic bomb. Alexander Graham Bell dabbled in eugenics. Daniel Boone killed Native Americans. Cesar Chavez was a friend of Ferdinand Marcos' regime.
This is only a small alphabetical sampling of the evils behind the names in San Diego schools.
If you lived in the South in the 1860s, and you were not a slave, you probably would have been on the side of the Confederacy. Even if you weren't white. And maybe even if you were a slave.
I totally get wanting to diminish symbols of the Confederacy. But now we are seeing people wanting to get rid of the names of people from the Confederacy, such as Robert E. Lee. Lee was a great man, and certainly far more worthy of praise than many people who receive similar honor.
San Diego has a lot of schools named after people. John Adams legally defended the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre. Albert Einstein helped create the atomic bomb. Alexander Graham Bell dabbled in eugenics. Daniel Boone killed Native Americans. Cesar Chavez was a friend of Ferdinand Marcos' regime.
This is only a small alphabetical sampling of the evils behind the names in San Diego schools.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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