Wokeism is Like Kudzu

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Wokeism is Like Kudzu

By Casey Chalk on May 6, 2021

Wokeism is a bit like kudzu. It’s not indigenous to the South, but once it starts growing… brother you better believe it will be hard to contain. And soon enough, you’ll wonder what life was like before it infested everything.

Kudzu is pervasive south of the James River, which runs through Richmond. Wokeism, alternatively, is less common in the southern parts of the Old Dominion, but is making significant in-roads in my native Northern Virginia — and, by extension, the state government, which is increasingly dominated by NoVa politicians. And unfortunately once the NoVa technocratic elites and their demographic dominance have decided on something, it becomes a lot harder to resist.

Take, for example, the trend to rename anything in Northern Virginia that smells of Confederate heritage. First on the chopping block was J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church. The local school board in 2017 voted to change the name to Justice High School. Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield was next: as of 2020 it is John R. Lewis High School. And Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas, also as of last year, is now Unity Reed High School.     

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