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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:02 PM Jul 2015

Logo removed from Robert E. Lee Middle School (Orlando)

By Chris Hush
Published 4:58 PM EDT Jul 17, 2015

ORLANDO, Fla. —An Orange County middle school has removed its logo in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding the Confederate flag, but not everyone is applauding the move ...

"It was simply an administrative decision to prevent discomfort for (the) school community. We will be working with the school on particulars," Superintendent Barbara Jenkins said ...

http://www.wesh.com/news/logo-removed-from-robert-e-lee-middle-school/34223786

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Logo removed from Robert E. Lee Middle School (Orlando) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

What was the logo? drm604 Jul 2015 #1

Found it. drm604 Jul 2015 #2

Looks more like Colonel Sanders Yupster Jul 2015 #3

It looks like "Colonel Reb". drm604 Jul 2015 #4

I read this 3 times and was still, like, "what do they have against Legos"? Warren DeMontague Jul 2015 #5

drm604

(16,230 posts)

1. What was the logo?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:18 PM

Jul 2015

I can't find any legible pictures of it. Was it more offensive than the actual name?

drm604

(16,230 posts)

2. Found it.

Reply to drm604 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:43 PM

Jul 2015

It looks like a little cartoon man. Maybe it's a bad caricature of Robert E. Lee?
(Google Maps street view) http://bit.ly/1Mb87T1

Yupster

(14,308 posts)

3. Looks more like Colonel Sanders

Reply to drm604 (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:55 PM

Jul 2015

than Lee.

drm604

(16,230 posts)

4. It looks like "Colonel Reb".

Reply to drm604 (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 02:34 AM

Jul 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Reb

Apparently it's a depiction of an antebellum plantation owner. So a Florida middle school is named after Robert E. Lee and had as a mascot a cartoon depiction of an antebellum plantation owner (a slave owner, in other words). Wow. How many African American students went to that school and saw that giant image on the outside every day?

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

5. I read this 3 times and was still, like, "what do they have against Legos"?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 06:56 AM

Jul 2015

I think I need to go back to the eye dr.

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