Fuck off.
Now that, I had to laugh at. Fundies and I get along about as well as sodium and water.
Please explain why you think wasting taxpayer dollars like that is ethical behavior?
Please explain why pro-slavery traitors should be considered good role models.
Never mind, it’s Texas.
Let’s say a group of Neo-Nazis raised $10m and offered it to HISD to rename an elementary school “Hitler Academy”. That’s $10M that could be used to improve education, or to cut a few bucks off everyone’s tax bill.
Would you want HISD to take that money or turn it down?
A touch, a touch I do confess! Clothy hath slain me with his masterful command of invective. His skill with the English language and its myriad styles of vituperation is surpassed only by his political wisdom and analysis. I am slain!
Fortunately, in this case, there is a “valid reason.” Names matter. Political correctness is not always a bad idea (but of course can be, if taken to extremes).
Sigh. George Santayana said it best:
If you people had your way, nobody would ever learn anything except revisionist history and the entire period from 1776-1865 would be taught in one sentence: Evil white people used to own black people.
But they are not being erased from history, they’re merely being accorded the proper place in it. A place of disgrace rather than honor.
The local trash can, which is where every Confederate monument, memorial and namesake on a public building needs to be consigned, as is only appropriate for traitors.
But naming a school Evil White Person Dick Dowling Who Fought Against The USA And Foiled The Invasion of Texas So That Black People Such As Nearly Half This School’s Student Population Could Continued To Be Owned School is too big a mouthful for a school name, and leaving it as it is at Dick Dowling Elementary School would be continuing to revise history because it ignores actual, factual, proven history.
The inappropriate name is just the tip of the iceberg. That district has been struggling with desegregation and separate-but-equal for decades, including Department of Justice involvement and court supervision as recent as 2003.
The problem with racists such as yourself, Clothahump, is that you are dumber than dog shit and your fetid little minds are impervious to proven facts that conflict with your own self-revised view of the world. And yes, revisionism by racists such as yourself is an ongoing problem in the southern USA:
Now, Muffin, Clothy may be a lot of bad things: stupid, inarticulate, and conservative spring immediately to mind. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard/read him actually say anything that was actually blatantly racist.
The people who are making these changes are Texans, too! It’s a big state. We’ve got all kinds.
If there were enough of them, Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott would be unemployed. 
His OP was racist, either out of ignorance or out of deliberation. His maintaining his racist position throughout the thread is out of deliberation.
Come to think of it, I recall Clothahump being penalized on another board for calling a black poster “Buckwheat” in a derogatory manner.
Fair enough. I was thinking outside of this thread.
You don’t seem to realize that the actual revisionism of history is that done by those who honor those traitors.
I have to disagree with you on this. The revisionists on this issue aren’t the people who are trying to put slavery back into history (as one part of history - not all of it). The real revisionists were the people who tried to take slavery out of history in the first place.
Here’s the true history of the Confederates that a lot of southerners want to ignore: The Confederates declared war on the United States in order to protect their right to enslave people. I don’t see anything there that a modern American should wish to honor.
I beg to differ. Those were Guest Workers here as part of the Triangle Trade. See, it says that right here in my approved Texas Big Book of U.S. History.