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Duppers

(28,125 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:53 PM Jun 2018

Barack Obama Elementary in Richmond

Just got this email...

Dear Duppers,

I wanted to make sure you saw this incredible news coming out of Richmond. Last night, the Richmond School Board voted to rename J.E.B. Stuart Elementary to Barack Obama Elementary.

As we celebrate Juneteenth today, we do so with the knowledge that Richmond, the former Capital of the Confederacy, will no longer have a school named after a Confederate general. More importantly this name change is more than just a symbolic gesture. In a school where over 80% of the students are African-American, this change will give them a modern day role model for them to look up to and learn from.

The progress that we are making in Richmond is evident everyday when I travel around the city and it is because of you that we are able to make that happen. Together we can build One Richmond!

Thank You,
Levar Stoney
Mayor of Richmond

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Barack Obama Elementary in Richmond (Original Post) Duppers Jun 2018 OP

Saw it on my way to work and my jaw dropped underpants Jun 2018 #1

This is the first of many schools to be named after President Obama Gothmog Jun 2018 #2

Excellent, good for Richmond and the Commonwealth. appalachiablue Jun 2018 #3

Every time I hear a right-wingers' defense Duppers Jun 2018 #4

underpants

(182,826 posts)

1. Saw it on my way to work and my jaw dropped

Reply to Duppers (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:58 PM

Jun 2018

Stopped in at a store and just checked out the Times-Disgrace on my way out.
I let out a OH MY GOD as my jaw almost hit the floor.

Gothmog

(145,293 posts)

2. This is the first of many schools to be named after President Obama

Reply to Duppers (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:24 PM

Jun 2018

appalachiablue

(41,143 posts)

3. Excellent, good for Richmond and the Commonwealth.

Reply to Duppers (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:26 PM

Jun 2018

Memorial statues, Confederate named schools, highways and public places should end.

'The Descendants of Lee, Jackson and Davis Want the Confederate Statues to Come Down,' CNN, Aug. 17, 2017
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/us/robert-e-lees-grandson-comments-on-statue-removal/index.html

Duppers

(28,125 posts)

4. Every time I hear a right-wingers' defense

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:34 PM

Jun 2018

Of this crap, I ask "do we see memorials to Hitler and the Nazis in Germany today?" Why should these traitors be memorialized?

Thanks, AB.

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