t appears just as with many other Americans some people need to get a few lessons in history, factual history that is. Here is SHAPE’s thank you letter to the Duval County School Board 11 Nov 2008
Dear Board Members,
All of us here at SHAPE would like to extend our thanks for your decision to keep the name of Forrest High School as it is, and should remain. For those two members who voted to change the name, I hope you now understand that diversity, culture, and our Nations history comes in many forms, fashions and truths. To deny those of us who cherish our Southern history and culture in the name of political correctness and then at the same time allow those who want to remove all of our cherished history, culture, and symbols to enjoy their own is simply put, not fair.
I would challenge those dissenting voters to look at Nathan Bedford Forrest’s background other than his alleged association with one organization in addition to other Confederate leaders, soldiers and politicians before you make random decisions to punish the masses for the sake of a few. For example in the mostly former pro Union Congressional investigation on KKK activities in 1871, the committee concluded that Forrest’s involvement with the KKK was limited to trying to get it to disband. They determined there was no evidence that he had founded or led the Klan. Another great Confederate leader Robert E. Lee for example was a post war leader in helping establish higher education for minorities and I would imagine most students are not taught that. Lee repeatedly expelled white students from Washington College for violent attacks on local black men, and publicly urged obedience to the authorities and respect for law and order. In 1869-70 he was a leader in successful efforts to establish state-funded schools for blacks.
There are many other references to former Southern leaders that clearly provide us with different realities of what they did and why they did it. Again unfortunately students now are not taught the real history, instead they are taught politically correct and often revised history. Should we follow the path of Japan for example who are now teaching their students that the USA attacked them first and they had no choice but to defend themselves? This is absurd and we all know it, but the same types of revised history are being taught to our young students here today, and its doing them an injustice, as the truth good or bad is not being administered.
Again sincere thanks for standing up and doing the right thing. We cannot continue down this path of changing any and everything in the name of “diversity” otherwise we are working against that very effort instead of promoting it.
Respectfully,
SHAPE
http://southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com
[Submitted by 8milereb]
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