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NAACP Sues After School Goes Back To Confederate Name

Via ZeroHedge

The Virginia NAACP has sued a school board in Shenandoah Country after the district restored Confederate military names for two buildings – reversing what became a watershed moment in virtue signaling after dozens of schools changed their names following the 2020 death of George Floyd.

Stonewall Jackson by Tom Gallo

 

According NAACP Virginia State Conference President Cozy Bailey, the move by Shenandoah County to ditch ‘Mountain View High School’ and ‘Honey Run Elementary’ – to go back to ‘Stonewall Jackson High School’ and ‘Ashby Lee Elementary’ is “embracing the cold wind of intolerance and division and insensitivity,” and has “resurrected the ghosts of the Jim Crow era,” The Hill reports.

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UNC Chapel Hill Trustees Vote To Redirect DEI Money To Campus Safety

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The board of trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has unanimously voted to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and instead use the millions of dollars to boost campus safety.

A barricade protects the American flag at Polk Place at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., on May 1, 2024. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

 

At a special meeting on Monday morning to discuss budget plans, the board voted to divert the $2.3 million the university invests in DEI programs toward police and other public safety measures. The public university had an operating budget totaling more than $4 billion in the previous fiscal year.

“I think that DEI, in a lot of people’s mind, is divisiveness, exclusion, and indoctrination,” Marty Kotis, vice chair of the board’s budget and finance committee, said during Monday’s meeting. “We need more unity and togetherness, more dialogue, more diversity of thought.”

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