Elementary School Dumps “Racist” Name… Guess What They Changed It To
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June 20, 2018A Virginia elementary school changed their eeeeeeevil, raaaaaaacist name this week.
Guess what they changed it to!
THE BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR KIDS WHO CAN’T READ GOOD.
I kid, I kid. They changed it to Barack Obama Elementary School.
A Virginia elementary school voted Monday to swap its Confederate general name for that of former President Barack Obama.
J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia, will become Barack Obama Elementary School after the Richmond School Board voted 6 to 1 for the swap, reported WTVR.
Wonderful.
Richmond community members voted to select three finalists from a list of seven nominees. Five of the original seven nominees for the new name were black civil rights leaders, politicians, and/or educators including Obama, civil rights attorney Oliver Hill, civil rights leader Barbara Johns, Richmond educator Albert Norrell, Richmond’s first black mayor, Henry Marsh. The board could also have elected to rename J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School after “Wishtree,” a book telling the tale of a tree that has witnessed families come and go, or after Northside, the portion of Richmond in which the school is located.
The board selected Barack Obama over Northside and Wishtree Monday night. Ninety-five percent of the school’s students are black.
Whatever. It’s their school. This bothers me FAR less than tearing down historical monuments. Do whatever you want.
Richmond school board member Jonathan Young, who voted against renaming the school, said that he believed in “addition and not subtraction,” when speaking with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The truth is that some of my colleagues want to rename other of our schools and dispatch our Founding Fathers including George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, etc.,” Young told TheDCNF. “I can certainly respect how hard and complicated this discussion is because of the awfulness relevant to what some of these men did, but to strip our country of our history and common identity both good and bad would mean us taking down the Washington Monument, removing persons from Mount Rushmore, and failing to teach that we still strive to become a more perfect union.”
Other board members did not respond to the TheDCNF’s requests for comment.
He makes a great point.
And though I don’t really CARE if an elementary school gets renamed… it does point at a much larger societal problem of erasing American history for political correctness.
Richmond’s J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School is not the first school named after the Confederate general to rebrand. J.E.B. Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia, addressed tension surrounding its name by dropping the first three letters.
The renaming of Confederate schools has constituted just one prong in the culture war brewing around Confederate memorials.
Hundreds have been torn down, defaced, or officially removed all around the country.
