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Charlottesville renaming Lee and Jackson parks

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One will be "Justice Park" and the other will be "Emancipation Park"- they couldn't find two leaders to name the parks after instead of using Orwellian SJW newspeak?

Also, I found out the driving force behind this is a racist member of the city council. One of his tweets is him wondering why 80% of black folks speak like white people...
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Are you serious?

If they wanted names sure to not be associated with offense, they could name one Stinespring Park.
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WestEndHokie39 wrote:One will be "Justice Park" and the other will be "Emancipation Park"- they couldn't find two leaders to name the parks after instead of using Orwellian SJW newspeak?

Also, I found out the driving force behind this is a racist member of the city council. One of his tweets is him wondering why 80% of black folks speak like white people...
come on now, one should be zima park and one should be dumbasses in control park
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WestEndHokie39 wrote:One will be "Justice Park" and the other will be "Emancipation Park"- they couldn't find two leaders to name the parks after instead of using Orwellian SJW newspeak?

Also, I found out the driving force behind this is a racist member of the city council. One of his tweets is him wondering why 80% of black folks speak like white people...
Their 'history of Islam' courses taught them well. This is no different than knocking down a church of Jewish temple and building a mosque atop it. They want to erase history.
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A lot of Confederate-related monuments, street names, etc. will likely be changed over time. I'm not sure how I feel about this since it's a complicated issue.


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nolanvt wrote:A lot of Confederate-related monuments, street names, etc. will likely be changed over time. I'm not sure how I feel about this since it's a complicated issue.


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Yeah, both sides have good points. But there are other ways to show one's pride of place/history without the state funding it and tacitly supporting that side of the argument.
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nolanvt wrote:A lot of Confederate-related monuments, street names, etc. will likely be changed over time. I'm not sure how I feel about this since it's a complicated issue.


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Stupid isn't complicated. Taking down, or renaming, statues or monuments, doesn't change history. And having them up doesn't mean that we are celebrating everything about that time in our history.
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PC demands it...next they will be burning history books.
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HokieFanDC wrote:
nolanvt wrote:A lot of Confederate-related monuments, street names, etc. will likely be changed over time. I'm not sure how I feel about this since it's a complicated issue.


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Stupid isn't complicated. Taking down, or renaming, statues or monuments, doesn't change history. And having them up doesn't mean that we are celebrating everything about that time in our history.
The action isn't intended to 'change history'. It's to merely change which parts of our history the state pays (literally pays) tribute to. It's reasonable to not want the state to highlight those parts of our history that remind us of oppression, especially to those whose ancestors were the oppressed.
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VisorBoy wrote:
HokieFanDC wrote:
nolanvt wrote:A lot of Confederate-related monuments, street names, etc. will likely be changed over time. I'm not sure how I feel about this since it's a complicated issue.


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Stupid isn't complicated. Taking down, or renaming, statues or monuments, doesn't change history. And having them up doesn't mean that we are celebrating everything about that time in our history.
The action isn't intended to 'change history'. It's to merely change which parts of our history the state pays (literally pays) tribute to. It's reasonable to not want the state to highlight those parts of our history that remind us of oppression, especially to those whose ancestors were the oppressed.
There was more to that part of our history, that those statues/monuments represent, than oppression. And it also ignores the perspective of those times. It's just my opinion, but I don't think it's reasonable to say that those things are all about oppression.
And the things I've heard from people in my lifetime, most who are not ancestors of slaves, make me skeptical about motive.
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Gonna lose in court over Lee park. Land was donated with covenant that it be named Lee park. City can't change it.
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Seeing as how Virginia was Ground Zero for the unlawful invasion of a sovereign state where its citizens were forced to take up arms in defense of their homes, the War Between the States had a LOT more meaning here than in the rest of the South. Virginia only seceded because armies were going to have to go through their state.
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