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Originally Posted by HatchChile
Well, yeah. No one is going to fine you for it. It's not done for you or people you know. They are doing it for their students who'll be going to that school. If I had a kid, especially a Black kid I wouldn't want him to go to a school named after a plantation owner or slave trader, or some big name general who fought for confederate causes. Especially a public school that operates based on tax payers' - including my money.
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Josephus Daniels wasn't simply a man of his time either. He was a white supremacist, provocateur, and bigot. I went to the school when it was Daniels and supported that name change for the very reasons you mention here. I did know it would ruffle some feathers though.
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