Perspective: Debates over school names won’t be history anytime soon — and shouldn’t be
By Jay Mathews Jay Mathews Education writer and columnist Email Bio Columnist April 12 at 12:00 PM I thought, wrongly, that the national argument over changing school names was over. We Americans have never been good at history. How many of us really care about a few long-dead white guys’ bad thoughts and deeds?
“Right now we — and I mean liberals and progressives — have divided up white famous people into several naming buckets,” Hawkins told me. “Keep in mind all of these white people, technically, are racist. Period. President Wilson was a segregationist, but President George Washington owned more than 100 slaves.”
White Confederates Bucket: “No one even thinks twice about these folks. By joining the Confederacy, they automatically labeled themselves racist.”
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