Nathan Bedford Forrest High School change de nom. Pourquoi?

Pourquoi ce changement de nom ou pourquoi s'y intéresser? Probablement parce que c'est étonnant qu'une école secondaire du sud porte toujours le nom d'un des premiers leaders du Ku Klux Klan! 60% de la clientèle actuelle de l'école est noire. Un changement évident? Pas pour des confédérés qui s'opposent au projet. Ajoutons encore un peu plus de piquant à cette histoire en mentionnant qu'un des opposants, et activiste confédéré, est noir...

 "As the school board worked up to Monday's vote, opposition in Jacksonville was also voiced by H.K. Edgerton, a black "Confederate activist" whose Georgia-based organization, Southern Heritage 411, was founded to "inform the public about Southern Heritage from the perspective of the hundreds of thousands of black people who love and support the South, its people, its customs, and its history."

 Edgerton has been busy in the Jacksonville area lately. A few weeks ago, he was in the news for attending a public meeting in Lake City, Fla. concerning a Union monument proposed for the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park. At that meeting, Edgerton led opponents of the project in a rendition of "Dixie" while he waved a large Confederate flag.

 Edgerton told TPM on Monday that he had been in Florida again last week. Last Wednesday, he demonstrated outside Nathan Bedford Forrest High School, and he was joined by several members of the the Sons of Confederate veterans.

 http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/kkk-high-school-changes-its-name-despite-black-confederate-s-efforts