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Students divided after returning to schools with Confederate names restored (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

One of the people leading the charge to restore the schools' names is Mike Scheibe, a father of two students at Ashby Lee and Civil War re-enactor, who is also the spokesperson for the Coalition for Better Schools, a local organisation that campaigned for the school board to change the names back.

. . . "But to be taught that everyone who fought for the Confederacy, or did this, or did that, is a racist slave holder, that's all or nothing, and that really isn't doing history justice," he added.

Well, I’ll give him the point that he didn’t use the word “heritage”, so. Good job with that. However he did mention something about justice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Wonder which side he cosplays for