Last Updated on June 3, 2024
The names of Confederate legends Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby once again adorn the fronts of school buildings in Shenandoah County, Virginia, after local residents democratically overthrew the Marxist school board that changed the names in 2020, forcing a re-vote and the eventual restoration of Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School.
National File recently reported on the 5-1 Shenandoah County School Board vote that ordered the names of Confederate Virginians Jackson, Lee, and Ashby to be returned to their rightful status and now, work crews in Shenandoah County have done just that, re-affixing signs that read “Stonewall Jackson High School” and “Ashby-Lee Elementary School” to the fronts of their respective buildings.
The renaming marks the first known name-change reversal in the United States since 2020 when law-abiding citizens all over the country were locked in their homes and prevented from lobbying their governing bodies against erasing history; all while violent communists and anti-White radicals were permitted to burn, loot, murder, and tear down historical monuments.
“The schools were renamed in 2020 when the sitting school board decided to cave to the pressure of leftist activists and ignore the will of the residents, who were overwhelmingly against the changes,” Grayson Jennings, a spokesman with the Virginia Flaggers, told National File.
“In the wake of that decision, a grassroots coalition worked diligently over the past four years to vote out each member who voted for the change, one by one, and run candidates who were willing to undo the wrong,” Jennings went on.
“It took them four years and two election cycles, but their hard work and perseverance paid off with a resounding victory, which should serve as an example and inspiration to all Southerners. It’s past time to get to work and take back what has been stolen from us, and restore what has been lost, starting in my hometown,” concluded Jennings, who is himself a graduate of Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville, VA, which had its name changed in 2020 and its Confederate mascot replaced by a cultureless clip-art cartoon – against the will of students and area residents alike.
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As mentioned, Shenandoah County is far from the only locale that quickly changed school and place names under the pressure of race radicals and opportunistic leftists, and it’s not even the only county in Virginia that erased General Stonewall Jackson’s name from a high school.
In northern Virginia’s Prince William County, Stonewall Jackson High School was renamed “Unity Reed High School” in honor of the school’s black former security guard, when the district announced that it could “no longer represent the Confederacy in our schools.”
However, according to recent polling data compiled by Potomac Local News, 65.31% of local poll respondents “support restoring Stonewall Jackson High School’s original name, citing the preservation of history as a reason for their choice.”