Julián Castro calls on San Antonio High School to change name...

[DMX7]

You know which one... Robert E. Lee High School.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Juli-n-Castro-says-6349127.php

Lee is actually one of the few confederates I would forgive and probably did enough other things worth honoring.

[Trill Clinton]

they need to change jefferson davis as wellhttp://i62.tinypic.com/2i8vpfk.png

[DMX7]

they need to change jefferson davis as wellhttp://i62.tinypic.com/2i8vpfk.png

Actually, the first time I was on the UT campus, I was shocked there was a statue there of him. It seems so out of place.

[elbamba]

I guess now that HUD is saved he can turn his attention to more important matters.

[DMX7]

I guess now that HUD is saved he can turn his attention to more important matters.

Yeah, it takes so much time and effort to call for a school name change -- not that I even agree with the proposition, tbh.

[elbamba]

Its just a stupid argument for stupid people. While I think it is important to remove the confederate flag from flying over a government building I do not think that we have to remove all things associated with the losing party from the Civil War. Lee certainly accomplished enough to warrant a school being named after him. Hell my high school was named after a British Prime Minister. Should I be offended because his people slapped a tax on my ancestor's tea and burned down our White House?

[boutons_deux]

hool yawn goes too far. Bobby Lee isn't used as a symbol of racism and white supremacy, even if he were, more or less, a white supremacist like all the rest of the South.

If Lee HS name goes, then so should slave-owning Thomas Jefferson HS go, too.

[CosmicCowboy]

Castro should shut the fuck up.

[CosmicCowboy]

hool yawn goes too far. Bobby Lee isn't used as a symbol of racism and white supremacy, even if he were, more or less, a white supremacist like all the rest of the South.

If Lee HS name goes, then so should slave-owning Thomas Jefferson HS go, too.

Why stop there? Blow this fucker up too, Boo.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Jefferson_Memorial,_Washington,_DC_2012.JPG

[DMX7]

hool yawn goes too far. Bobby Lee isn't used as a symbol of racism and white supremacy, even if he were, more or less, a white supremacist like all the rest of the South.

If Lee HS name goes, then so should slave-owning Thomas Jefferson HS go, too.

No, but Lee was actually on the side of the confederacy.

[boutons_deux]

No, but Lee was actually on the side of the confederacy.

Slavery was the problem, not the war to preserve white supremacy and slavery.

[angrydude]

I think we should get rid of the Declaration of Independence too. Just propaganda written by a a slave holder. Same thing with the constitution. The "father" of the constitution, James Madison, also held slaves.

America was all a plot to perpetrate slavery.

[z0sa]

Quite stupid, tbh.