The Richmond School Board voted Monday to rename a Confederate-named elementary school after former President Barack Obama, overriding a vote of the students, who preferred “Northside.”
A June 12 vote by students at J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School, which honors a Confederate general, found that 190 wanted to rename their school “Northside,” referring to the neighborhood, with 166 voting for “Barack Obama” and 127 for “Wishtree.”
About 95 percent of the students who attend the school are black, according to WTVR-TV in Richmond.
Even so, the board voted 6-1 to rename the school after the nation’s first black president, capping a two-month drive to replace the Stuart name as public institutions across the South move to drop Confederate memorials, monikers and references.
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So you just told those students that their voice/opinion doesn't matter! Great start at an education! Wait that's the exact same thing that happens in our government so they might as well just get used to it!
ReplyDeleteidiots huh? Name a school after one the most ignorant people in history. A confederate General has more clout than that shyster
ReplyDeleteThey will need to change once again when the liberal nut jobs in this country finally come to terms with how much damage BO did to the country.
ReplyDeleteNeed to tear it down im offended by that term OBAMA.
ReplyDeleteSo they removed the name of a civil war soldier, because he fought for the south. But they are naming it after a man who was selling our country to the muslins and nearly destroyed it. He caused more racism’s and hate of police than anyone in history!
ReplyDeleteWho would want their school named after the most wanting looser this world has seen in decades?
ReplyDeleteObama=Looser
Rest in peace Jeb, greatest cavalry commander of all time.
ReplyDeleteJ.E.B. Stuart Elementary School
ReplyDeleteThe destruction of our history and heritage continues.
What a slap in the face to all white Americans renaming a school from a well-loved American hero to a sleazebag illegal Muslim from Kenya that illegally entered the White House.
I hope you idiots are proud of yourselves!