On 9/15/13 10:53 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:35:17 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1455200

Jacksonville, Florida, still has a high school named after Nathan
Bedford Forrest, a Confederacy general, a founder and first grand wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan, and the officer who was accused of slaughtering
hundreds of black northern soldiers after they surrendered.

When we lived in northern Florida, there were efforts underway to
get the name of the school changed, and I thought by now it would have
happened.

That is sort of ironic isn't it? Think about the guy the city was
named after and ask native Americans what they think about that. Some
won't even take a $20 bill.

You sound like the people here in Lee County who are so upset about a
picture of General R.E. Lee. I think they want to replace it with one
of these.

http://tinyurl.com/nzf9uxp
http://tinyurl.com/obmnyhm
http://tinyurl.com/nmlzlb4



Though he fought for the wrong side, Robert E. Lee was a principled man
and after the war, he acquitted himself admirably. He sure as hell
didn't help found and serve as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, even though
he was opposed to extending voting rights to blacks. Of course, today's
GOP wants to remove those rights.

I understand why the high school in Jax should be renamed. The name is
an insult to Americans of good will.