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Grand Rebranding Event Set for July 12 at Virginia Peninsula Community College
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Opinion: Renaming is an opportunity for Virginia Peninsula Community College
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Source: Joe Mahoney/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP
In a woke hypocrisy, the State Board of Community Colleges in Richmond, Virginia, is changing the name of Patrick Henry Community College. A month after the announcement, however, Gov. Ralph Northam recognized the Founding Father in a proclamation, designating June 29 as Patrick Henry Day.
In updating its college naming policy, the Board agreed college names “Should reflect the values of inclusive and accessible education articulated in the VCCS mission statement, with special emphasis on diversity, equity, and opportunity, and be relevant to the students it seeks to serve and to the geography of its service region.”
You can guess the reasons why.
Fairfax County has named Robert E. Lee High school after civil rights icon John Lewis.
Alexandria has renamed two schools. Hampton is renaming five schools that were previously named after either slaveowners, Confederates or segregationists.
The College of William and Mary has renamed three buildings.
The state community college system is renaming schools bearing the names of Lord Fairfax, John Tyler, Thomas Nelson and wants to change Patrick Henry and Dabney S. Lancaster.
All this has come within the past few months. We donât have space to list all the schools, roads or other public facilities that have been or are in the process of being renamed. Roanoke is no stranger to this process.
Five more historical figures have been hauled into the court of public opinion, found guilty of being either slaveholders, Confederates or segregationists, and sentenced to unnaming.
All five have their names affixed to Virginia community colleges, although not for much longer. Three schools are already in the process of changing their names â Lord Fairfax that operates four locations in the northern Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont, John Tyler in Chesterfield County, and Thomas Nelson in Hampton.
Two others have local boards that want to keep their names â Dabney S. Lancaster in Clifton Forge and Patrick Henry in Martinsville â which has prompted the state board to urge them to think about that again.
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