Name Changes

[wtxbadger]

Political correctness has hit my hometown of Midland, Texas. The school board is meeting this evening on changing the name of Robert E Lee High School. My bet is they'll vote for the change and thousands of former graduates will be dishonored because of a few butt hurt liberals.

[Graybeard]

Prolly so, seems these days we can't leave anything as is it must be changed.

[Argent 88]

Political correctness has hit my hometown of Midland, Texas. The school board is meeting this evening on changing the name of Robert E Lee High School. My bet is they'll vote for the change and thousands of former graduates will be dishonored because of a few butt hurt liberals.

Your from Midland? I'm impressed. Younger years I liked Odessa better lol. You know , chicks and stuff.
Roswell didn't have  honkie tonks like that, only Buds. Chances are in Lubbock was a good one.
And still is. Wife likes to go there, and a shopping spree. Texas you did have the best stuff.

[wtxbadger]

Born and raised there and raised my family there. Finally had enough in 2016 and the boss lady and I moved down to the Texas Hill country just outside of a little city with around 5000 people in it. Over the years of working in the oil business things started changing and working hard, devotion and loyalty were no longer desirable. Employees became just another piece of the machinery and considered plug and play no matter their skillsets or experience but I digress in those thoughts.
Yep, Odessa tended to be more fun depending on the kind of entertainment you were looking for.

[ironglows]

Can't that school board read? 
  They ought to take a couple days off and read the biography of Robert E. Lee. 


  If they have a couple brain cells to rub together, they would be too ashamed of themselves to even suggest a change ! 


  Way back in the 1950s, I was stationed a few months at Ft Sam Houston, in San Antonio.
  I had buddy there, who lived in Robert Lee, Texas, Another who lived in Llano and another who lived in Coleman.  A couple times, I spent a weekend at Robert Lee, and visited the guys homes in Llano or Coleman, on the way out or back.


  I wonder if some clown will want to rename the little town of Robert Lee ?

[oldandslow]

I lived in Midland for part of a summer long ago. Odessa was extremely rough and tough back in those days and I stayed in Midland. Us Dawson County boys weren't tough enough for Odessa. Some of us got whooped on pretty regularly in Big Spring and it didn't have nearly the reputation that Odessa did. I made an occassional foray to Big Spring but had sense enough to stay away from the meaner spots and never came home with any bruises or bloody places. I still remember just how awful the ground water at Midland is.

I know what you mean about devotion and loyalty coming to mean nothing to the oil companies. I got to take early retirement because of that and have never regretted it.

I'm surprised that Midland would even consider such a thing as the name change but in this day and age I guess I shouldn't be.

[wtxbadger]

I suggested some of those folks in favor of renaming the highschool actually learn more about him on a Lee alumnus facebook group I was a part of and it was a total nonstarter. There is no reasoning with these people and heaven forbid that documented factual history should get in the way of emotions. Got called a racist and a few other unmentionable comments. One little millennial actually had the courage to threaten me and by extension my wife by private message over my viewpoint.
Then there was the genius that claimed that MLK promoted and encouraged violent protests as a means to achieve equality. Tried correcting that mentioning that Malcolm X was the one that held that view but there's accounting for ignorance so got called a racist.
I'm really looking forward to antifa or blm trying to promote their agenda in small towns across Texas. Thinkin that might end badly for them if they decide to show up and raise heck. The people of Weatherford and their response this past weekend to being invaded by bused in folks from DFW protesting a confederate statue is a good example.
Odessa could get a little rough depending on which establishment you decided to water at. Didn't take too many trips in my youth to figure out hanging out at a western bar in Midland was a lot safer and less eventful back in the day. The water was still just as bad when we moved as it was when I was kid growing up.
Having grown up in and around the patch I sure miss all the colorful people that made the business what it used to be. There's no room for the people that made the Permian what it was up to a few years ago. There's no dream or romance to it, just bottom lines from outsiders with no concept of the business and figuring on a quick flip and moving on to flip their next company without a thought about the people who worked for them.
While Midland always touted itself as conservative one only has to look at George W for an example of what Midland really was. It's exemplified by Midlands incessant need to tear down anything old and replace it with something new and improved. Examples include their courthouse that was completely remodeled and commissioned in 76, the scharbauer hotel and multiple other buildings downtown deemed as outmoded or not worth the effort to preserve.
Midland's demographic has changed by virtue of all of the people who moved there from other parts of the country and brought their own political slants with them as well that differ from the Midland I remember fondly and grew up in. It comes down to change for the sake of change without a valid and justifiable reason but it sounds good so tear it down and start over.
In some ways I get the feeling maybe that's a factor in a larger scale with whats happening in our country today. Values, hard work, self education and the learning of a trade and skills that provide you with the opportunities to obtain a lifestyle you want have been replaced by immediate satisfaction and a sense that these folk deserve something without actually paying and dues and earning it.
Well........ That was a long diatribe I probably should have left alone there at the end but what the heck.

[Argent 88]

Born and raised there and raised my family there. Finally had enough in 2016 and the boss lady and I moved down to the Texas Hill country just outside of a little city with around 5000 people in it. Over the years of working in the oil business things started changing and working hard, devotion and loyalty were no longer desirable. Employees became just another piece of the machinery and considered plug and play no matter their skillsets or experience but I digress in those thoughts.
Yep, Odessa tended to be more fun depending on the kind of entertainment you were looking for.

Live in Midland and party in Odessa lol. Remember that one. Ours was pretty much Lubbock.
Still is from what I hear.

[wtxbadger]

Yep, the old saying was raise your sons in Midland your heck in Odessa. Had the opportunity on occasion to visit some HS buddies in Lubbock going to Texas Tech and I couldn't tell you a name one of the dives we went to but they were a tad bit rough. Of course that was when everyone was immortal and bulletproof.

[Bob Riebe]

It is all part of the hatred for Pres. Bush, and the Rep. are chicken shite cowards.

[Argent 88]

Badger Midland ? I would have never thought that. But it's been years since I've been over there.
Roswell is border line but I'm sure it's coming here also eventually. With all these west coast liberals
buying up property.

[wtxbadger]

W never fought back against the demonizing by the liberal press and it encouraged the liberal main stream media to ramp up their spin and eventually set aside any perceived neutrality.

[wtxbadger]

Just heard that it's official and Robert E Lee High School in Midland, Texas will be renamed. The board voted 6 to 1 for the change. Darn shame.

[Ranger99]

They haven't changed John B. Hood yet.
I'm sure they will.
They changed the team name from
the Hood Rebels to some mild
something a few years back, so I
imagine it'll get a re-do before long

[ironglows]

If people would be less emotional and a bit more grounded intellectually, they should know that no man was ever perfect, except Jesus.
  Even MLK, who did many good things, was not without his warts.  The only difference being, that the people the emotional zealots are trying to destroy, have not had their faults sealed away from public examination for years yet to come.


  The following article may or may not be slanted..and Iam hesitant to paste it, but it indicates how no man is perfect, and making decisions purely upon emotion, cannot augur well.


 https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-tapes-allege-mlk-watched-rape-2019-5


  The article, if accurate, shows that the FBI was busy spying upon Americans back then.


   Here, from the article, show that there is still sealed information squirreled away somewhere.
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  " King biographer David Garrow and set to be published in the June edition of the UK magazine Standpoint details newly released FBI memos that discuss the tapes.[/size]The tapes — sealed until 2027 in the US National Archives — hold recordings from bugs placed in hotel rooms King used in the 1960s, when they suspected his aide Stanley Levison was a Communist. "[/font]