School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been removed.
When you hear the same people complaining about diversity, equity, and inclusion: this is part of the same reactionary mindset.
They don’t want to champion those ideas, because they want minorities to feel excluded. They want to “include” traitors to the Union because they are themselves the continuation of that legacy. Equity means fixing what their progenitors rigged and stole in the first place.
Diversity is death to reactionary ideas: it’s why they’re terrified of it.
When you hear the same people complaining about diversity, equity, and inclusion: this is part of the same reactionary mindset.
They don’t want to champion those ideas, because they want minorities to feel excluded. They want to “include” traitors to the Union because they are themselves the continuation of that legacy. Equity means fixing what their progenitors rigged and stole in the first place.
Diversity is death to reactionary ideas: it’s why they’re terrified of it.