Could renaming streets in Northern Virginia promote racial healing?

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4. Not unless it was explained in a big way why

I grew up there. It was 40 years before I even knew that "Lee Highway" was named for Robert E. Lee. It was always just there, and was always called that.

I was 16 before I knew that "Jeb Stuart" high school (I didn't go there) was named for a Confederate General.

If you're going to rename those streets, with the ensuing confusion of people looking for streets they have driven on all their lives, TELL everyone WHY, or else, you're creating traffic havoc.

This is not the same thing as demanding that Washington National Airport be re-given its original name. Reagan hated Washington and hated the Air Traffic Controllers. The people who lived there and grew up there were furious at the Republicans for naming our airport after a hated president for no reason other than to immortalize a partisan idol and piss off the locals.