Systemic Racism in Schools is Alive and Well in Virgina as Local School Board Votes to Restore Names of Confederate “War Heroes” to Two Schools…and Parents are Not Happy
A Virginia school board just took a huge step back to the 19th Century. Shenandoah County school board members recently voted and approved restoring the names of Confederate leaders like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson to two public schools.
People are calling this move a complete rejection of their previous decision to change the names of these schools in reaction to social and political unrest resulting from the use of excessive force by Officer Derrick Chauvin resulting in the death of an unarmed Black father named George Floyd.
Shenandoah county’s school board is all white and ruled (nearly) unanimously in favor of the decision to reject the previous gesture acknowledging the existence and history of systemic racism in the United States.
Make no mistake about it, the Civil War was fought on account of the interests of capitalists in the South who saw their fortune fading with the rise of freedom of their enslaved workforce.
Only one member voted against it.
In other words, there are actively employed and elected people working to return what is now…
