Virginia NAACP files suit against school board that restored names of Confederate leaders
The state chapter of the influential civil rights organization argues that restoring the names of the pro-slavery military figures created "an unlawful and discriminatory educational environment for Black students."
The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and five students filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the school board in Shenandoah County after the six-person body approved a proposal restoring the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools.
The lawsuit, first reported by NBC News, argues that the school board created "an unlawful and discriminatory educational environment for Black students," according to a news release announcing the legal action.
The suit alleges that the board, in restoring the Confederate names, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and the Equal Education Opportunities Act.
I’d let all of these statues and monuments stand, but require the descriptions to all be preceded with “defeated traitor”. So instead of the Robert E Lee Memorial Park or whatever it would now be the Defeated Traitor Robert E Lee Memorial Park. Require it to be referred to that way on Google Maps, local newscasts, etc and see how quickly people suddenly want to rename them.
Maybe list all of the people they owned too. Robert E Lee personally beat one of his slaves do bad that it made the newspaper. The overseer, whose generally did the beatings, refused to do it because they thought it was too harsh. Plus he was a shitty general. No idea why that piece of shit is revered.
He's revered by shitty people who wish they could beat their wives as badly as he beat his slaves, because they're too stupid to know or care that he was also a shitty general.