About the LFCC name change…

In our daily Rapp News text message on Tuesday (see below about how to sign up and share your thoughts!), we asked about Lord Fairfax Community College’s name change, which became official last week:

• “I graduated from there and I believe all [these] name changes and … moment moving is just messing with history. This is money wasted that is needed for other things.”

• “Love it!”

• “Hate it”

• “Hate it!!!”

• “Stupid!”

• “Sounds good to me.”

• “How does the new school NAME ‘inspire student success … & promote community vitality’?

• “I think it’s great. It’s responsive branding with recognition of their messaging and the demographic they exist for.”

• “While I am quite honestly unsure of Lord [Fairfax’s] personal history of slave abuse, or not, I find it almost as objectionable that we seem as collectively determined to erase slave holders from history as I find it objectionable that white supremacists are determined to keep the facts of black history out of the public eye. Just one opinion.”

• “A pointless feel good gesture that will have zero impact.”

• “Pretty bland. A shame. History is re-written for the fearful. Afraid someone will be offended. Good grief.”

• “Glad they changed it!”

• “It’s a good name and long overdue.”

• “Well, I liked ‘Red Oak’ better, but ‘Laurel Ridge’ is fine and [it’s] time to put this whole event — which should not have been a big deal — behind us and let the college focus on [its] important purpose.”

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