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Kate Garfinkel's avatar

A little good news today: Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, TX, of Friday Night Lights fame, is changing its name! https://www.mrt.com/news/article/MISD-board-to-change-name-of-Lee-HS-15438457.php

I attended but moved before graduation. A Black gay alum, who also is a teacher, started the petition in June. The debate raged on Facebook every day, but was mainly civil. A small but important victory.

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Guy Turchetti's avatar

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that a botched break-in and subsequent coverup was enough to remove Pres. Nixon from office, a lie under oath about an illicit affair was enough to get Pres. Clinton impeached, but the thousands of lies and the constant subversion of the rule of law and the Constitution by the Trump administration aren’t enough to get previously respected Republicans to act in defense of America or honor the oath they took to protect and defend the country and Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. And they’re not done - in fact it seems like they’re just getting started. And civil protest seems to be what they want so they can move in even more troops. I think the protests should be massive sit-ins to reduce their ability to call them anarchist riots.

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