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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Confederacy Under Attack-- Part 162: Going After the School Names in Houston

From the Jan. 15, 2016, Google Alerts for Confederate.

**  Should Houston's Lanier Middle School Lose Its Name Because of Confederate Ties?  (Loss)  The school is named for Sidney Lanier who was in the Confederate Army and later a blockade-runner.  He was also a poet and university professor.  Many schools and Georgia's Lake Lanier named after him.  But, he fought for the Confederacy which made him a terrible person in some people's eyes.

Houston has a long list of schools named after Confederates.  Also, there is talk of renaming Henry Grady Elementary.  He was not in the Civil War, but was a white racist.  Doesn't calling someone a white racist also make someone a racist?

**  4 Houston schools with Confederate names to get new monikers.  (Loss)  Trustees have voted to rename Robert E. Lee High School and three middle schools: Henry Grady, Richard Dowling and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

The way I look at it, any school with a Confederate name where the primary number of students are black should have their names changed.  After all, they almost always look bad on state testing numbers.  And that HAS nothing to do with the names of their schools.

Looks like the Houston school district is aiming for reclassification as a lower case "h".

Less Embarrassment That Way.  --Old Secesh

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