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.
But the composition of the school board is different now than it was during the 2020 decision – all six seats are held by different people.
School boards are the most boring thing in the world. (Like I tell my kids, they even have “bored” right in the name"). But it seems like Confederates and racists have realized that, even though their racist views are rapidly receding into history, if they get elected to local government positions they can throw little local power trips to make sure all “those people” still know their place.
They’ve had the past 160 years to fill in some boring ass jobs to do that, the lure of money finally made them do it. My worldview doesn’t entertain the illusion that it truly matters whether you’re black, brown, yellow or white; only if you’ve got enough green to do whatever you want. So I’m going to have to disagree that this is a key piece of information.
No, there’s one more key piece of info:
School boards are the most boring thing in the world. (Like I tell my kids, they even have “bored” right in the name"). But it seems like Confederates and racists have realized that, even though their racist views are rapidly receding into history, if they get elected to local government positions they can throw little local power trips to make sure all “those people” still know their place.
They’ve had the past 160 years to fill in some boring ass jobs to do that, the lure of money finally made them do it. My worldview doesn’t entertain the illusion that it truly matters whether you’re black, brown, yellow or white; only if you’ve got enough green to do whatever you want. So I’m going to have to disagree that this is a key piece of information.
What?