Silent March

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We invite you to join our SILENT MARCH for racial justice and a name change for Dixie School District.
What: The Silent March is a quiet walk, rain or shine. We encourage people to wear black or white. Some participants will bring Dixie District memorabilia and financial donations for the Old Dixie Schoolhouse Museum, a non-profit organization which indicates that<A HREF="http://www.dixieschoolhouse.org/about-dixie-school-hosue.html" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> the school district was named after the Confederacy during the Civil War.</A>
<A HREF="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/1917-silent-parade_us_597b3c01e4b0da64e8789bff" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The first Silent Parade</A> was held in 1917 in New York City to protest violence against African-Americans. It was the first mass demonstration by African-Americans in the United States. Some parade members wore all-white symbolizing the innocence of African-American victims of violence. Others wore dark suits to convey dignity, determination and solemnity.
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2019
Time: The Silent March starts at 10:30am sharp and ends at 11:30am. 
Where: The Silent March departs from Dixie Elementary School, 1175 Idylberry Road, San Rafael, CA and ends at Old Dixie Schoolhouse Museum, 2255 Las Gallinas Ave. The length of the parade is two miles downhill on sidewalks.
Who: Adults and children from across the Bay Area who support racial justice and a name change for Dixie School District. Walkers, strollers, cyclists, skateboarders, scooters, and dogs on leashes are welcome.
Why: We quietly walk together for racial justice and a name change for Dixie School District. Some of us walk for community unity. Some of us walk for Live Oak Valley Elementary (LOVE) School District. Dixie School Board will vote on March 19, 2019 on whether to change the name of Dixie School District to Live Oak Valley Elementary (LOVE) School District. 
Learn more: <A HREF="http://www.changethename.net" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.changethename.net</A> 
<A HREF="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Marin-going-south-13614718.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Read San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board Statement, "Marin Going South."</A>
Officials and residents of Marin County’s Dixie School District had five hours of debate and a century and a half of history to think better of an unfortunate name. Apparently, they need more time.
Sure, the San Rafael district’s name is a tribute to the Confederacy’s bloody pro-slavery rebellion against the United States, an affront to African Americans in a notoriously segregated area, and a historical and geographic nonsense with no identifiable upside. But changing the name after a mere 155 years, in the words of one Dixie-whistling school official, “feels rushed.”
The district’s board chose the regrettable occasion of Lincoln’s 210th birthday Tuesday to squander the latest of several opportunities to abandon their misguided homage to the Old South. They rejected not one but 13alternatives, some of them perfectly unobjectionable — Live Oak Valley, John Muir — and all of them preferable to Dixie.
Despite the creative revisionism of the remarkably vocal local Copperheads, the record convincingly ties the district’s name to Southern sympathizers, who weren’t uncommon in the community or across California. It doesn’t take a doctorate in history to understand the implications of the year of the original Dixie Schoolhouse’s christening: 1864.
Granted, the name of a 2,000-student district in a corner of Bay Area suburbia is hardly among the most pressing issues of our time. But the sheer triviality of the question of what such an entity calls itself makes the lost-cause defense of Dixie that much more ridiculous. The residents of a 21st-century Northern California school district that could be named almost anything are reenacting Pickett’s Charge over one of the few possibilities that disturbs many of their fellow Americans.

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