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Description
Arlington County Manager’s first steps toward a community process for renaming streets, bridges, County-owned properties in Arlington; and will also consider changing Arlington’s seal, logo and flag.
A
At
the
september
meeting,
the
board
also
welcomed
the
county,
manager's
first
steps
towards
a
community
process
for
potentially
renaming
streets,
bridges
and
county-owned
properties
in
arlington.
That
would
also
consider
changing
arlington's
seal
logo
and
flag,
and
what
was
the
impetus
for
the
manager's
proposal
on
this
absolutely.
B
So
you
know,
since
june,
when
we
saw
george
floyd
murdered
in
minneapolis,
there
has
been
an
outpouring
in
our
community
marches
engagement,
but
also
specific
calls
for
reforms
not
only
about
the
sort
of
substantive
ways
in
which
arlington's,
racist
or
confederate
past
still
has
impact
on
policy
and
practice
today,
but
also
on
symbols
of
that
confederate
or
past
or
racism
or
the
past
of
enslavement.
B
That
we
know
also
happened
here
in
arlington
county
we've
certainly
seen
a
lot
of
engagement
around
the
issue
of
the
county
logo
and
that
is
in
fact
derived
from
the
county
seal,
which
is
an
image
so
to
speak
of
arlington
house,
which
the
federal
government
has
designated
as
a
memorial
to
robert
e
lee,
and
so
by
extension,
I
know
for
a
lot
of
arlingtonians
who
wrote
us
or
spoke
to
us.
B
There
was
a
sense
that
that
logo,
where
that
seal,
was
standing
for
a
set
of
values
surrounding
the
confederacy
enslavement
dehumanization
that
certainly
didn't
represent
arlington's
values
to
date.
So
you've
seen
some
of
the
efforts
underway
already
to
talk
about
these
sort
of
substantive
vestiges
of
racism,
like
our
police
practices,
group
and
and
now
we're
also
trying
to
open
the
doors
to
have
that
conversation
about
the
future
of
symbols
and
names
in
arlington.
B
So
I
think
the
board
agrees
that
the
time
has
come
to
make
that
change
and
now
we're
looking
forward
to
taking
the
next
few
months
to
to
talking
with
others
about
what
should
replace
it
about
what
other
honorifics
to
the
confederacy
remain
in
our
community
and
which
we
should
discuss
for
the
future
and
libby.
I
know
you've
been
working
incredibly
hard
with
the
manager
and
our
new
chief
equity
officer
on
trying
to
shape
what
that
conversation
will
look
like.
C
Yeah
and
we're
good
we're
hiring
a
a
local
group
consultant
that
we've
I've
worked
with
for
many
years
called
challenging
racism
to
help
guide
the
community
with
kind
of
guided
conversations,
and
I
I'm
pretty
excited
about
this
process.
That's
moving
forward
that
was
kind
of
already
underway.
Before
we
kind
of
people
you
know
we
got
got
the
idea
that
we
needed
to
change
the
the
logo
and
the
seal
and
the
and
the
flag,
but
we've
been,
of
course,
getting
calls
to
changing
the
names,
and
I
think
what
we've
realized.
C
In
fact
it's
it's
hard
to
remember,
but
at
one
point
we
were
really
working
on
celebrating
our
100th
anniversary
this
year
and
it
was
supposed
to
be
a
hundred
years.
You
know
looking
back
and
looking
forward,
looking
both
ways
and
part
of
what
I
had
wanted
to
do
then
was
to
have
a
real
good
understanding
of
our
history,
because
I
think
you
can
do
a
much
better
job
of
understanding
where
you
are
and
where
you
want
to
go.
C
If
you
really
understand
who
you
are
and
how
we
got
here
and
in
fact
we
had
held
one
panel
and
that
had
been
with
black
americans
here
in
our
our
community,
black
residents
that
have
been
here
for
years
and
years
and
years
talking
about
their
experiences
here,
I
learned
a
lot.
It
was
a
wonderful
panel,
that's
the
one
panel
we
managed
to
carry
off
and
that
process
made
me
even
more
encouraged
about
how
we're
approaching
here,
I
think
the
need
to
educate
is
what
the
manager
is
talking
about.
C
The
different
steps
and
the
first
one
is
education.
It's
just
really
to
develop
an
understanding
again
of
who
we
are
and
how
we
got
here
and
there's
I've
been
learning
a
lot
about
history
and
I
always
figure.
I'm
pretty
well
informed.
Well,
there's
a
lot
to
learn
and
I
think,
as
we
start
to
do
it
and
and
think
about
these
things
in
an
intentional
way.
So
the
real
dispute
here,
I
think,
you'd-
probably
agree
katie-
was
how
fast
we're
gonna.
Do
it.
It's
not
r.
C
It
says
like
how
fast
and
how-
and
you
know
I
I
think
we
were
chatting
ahead
of
time
and
and
katie
was
pointing
out.
It's
really
only
a
difference
of
about
three
months
which
in
arlington
wait.
Time
is
like
a
nanosecond
right,
but
I
know
but
but
to
some
people
it
feels
you
know,
there's
a
whole
lot
of
emotion
and
feeling.
But
my
my
real
effort
here
is,
I
understand
I
do
understand.
C
I
can't
I
can't
totally
share
totally
understand,
but
you
know
the
feelings
and
the
emotions
that
this
brings
up,
but
I
really
think
we
need
you
know
more
light
and
less
heat
on
this
issue.
As
all
of
the
issues
we're
dealing
with,
I
think
our
job
as
board
members
and
leaders
is
to
help
kind
of
bring
down
the
temperature.
We've
got
so
much
chaos
and
swirl
going
on
with
the
election
with
you
know,
a
real
awakening
in
this
country
that
you
know
systemic
racism
really
is
a
thing.
C
I
think
a
lot
of
people
just
kind
of
thought,
they're
just
talking
about
it.
It's
not
really
real
that
videotape
murder
of
george
floyd
just
made
it
so
clear.
So
I
think
we're
in
a
good
place,
the
board.
You
know
all
it
was
a
five
five-oh
vote
on
how
we're
going
to
move
forward.
C
We're
absolutely
committed
to
doing
this,
but
I
think
what
I
think
what
we
all
want
is
to
have
a
really
good
thoughtful
conversation
and
that
we
move
forward
in
an
intentional
way
and
put
in
this
place
a
process
for
not
only
the
logo
of
the
seal
of
faith.
It's
about
more
than
that.
We've
been
asked
to
change
the
names
of
bridges,
roads,
buildings,
and
that
includes
wilson
boulevard.
You
know,
and
there's
been
a
little
rumblings
about
changing
the
name
of
arlington
county
itself.
C
So
before
we
just
kind
of
launch
off
in
a
thousand
different
directions,
I
think
we
need
to
get
a
process
and
an
understanding
and
approach
it
in
you
know
a
very
deliberate,
thoughtful
kind
of
way
and
I
think
it'll
make
us
much
stronger
as
a
community.
Actually,
I'm
looking
forward
to
it.
B
I
think,
too,
you
know
we're
trying
to
approach
this
or
actually
speaking
for
myself
with
a
little
humility
that
the
five
members
of
the
board
don't
have
all
the
answers
on
what
should
change
and
how
you
know,
certainly
with
the
local
we've
heard
from
a
number
of
the
community
number
of
members
of
the
community,
but
on
some
of
these
other
issues
right
this
opportunity
for
for
the
community
to
weigh
in
and
to
learn
from
the
history,
because
I
think
that's
where
we
are
remiss,
I
think
the
logo
should
change.
B
I
know
all
five
of
us
think
the
logo
should
change
to
to
do
it
without
the
conversations
and
the
history
means.
We've
really
missed
an
opportunity
to
talk
about
arlington's
history,
for
example
the
the
confederate
names
that
we
saw
crop
up
in
the
20s
and
30s.
It
was
just
on
a
call
last
night
kicking
off
the
lee
highway
alliance's
engagement
process
about
renaming
lee
highway
and
wilma
jones
who's.
A
historian
and
author
as
well.
As
you
know,
fourth
generation
I
think
hall's
hill
resident
was
pointing
out
lee
highway.
B
Wasn't
lee
highway
after
the
end
of
the
civil
war,
lee
highway
was
named
lee
highway
during
a
wave
of
resistance
to
new
freedoms
being
expressed
by
black
residents
in
the
20s
and
30s,
and
so
I
think,
there's
a
really
important
opportunity
for
us
to
discuss
these
symbols
and
understand
how
these
symbols
reflect
decisions
that
have
been
baked
into
our
zoning
ordinance,
for
example,
or
other
key
processes
in
arlington.
And
so
I
don't
want
to
miss
the
chance
for
us
to
have
real
conversations
about
that
history.
B
To
understand
how
we've
been
shaped
by
the
confederate
legacy
by
the
racist
legacy
in
our
community,
because
I
think,
if
we
really
are
going
to
embark
on
a
on
a
set
of
anti-racist
actions
to
make
this
community
the
inclusive
community
that
we
so
wish
to
be.
We
have
to
know
where
we're
coming
from
and
how
we're
going
to
change
it.
C
Yeah-
and
I
like
I'll,
just
build
one
on
one
point,
because
I've
been
saying
this
a
lot
and
I
appreciate
you
bringing
it
up.
It
really
doesn't
matter
what
the
board
thinks,
what
the
five
of
us
think
it
matters,
what
the
community
as
a
whole
thinks,
and
we
need
to
really
work
that
through
so
we're
facilitators
here.
That's
what
we
think
and
that.
A
C
All
together,
some
people
say
it
took
us
400
years
to
get
here.
It's
going
to
take
us
a
little
while
to
get
out
of
here,
but
I
think
the
understanding
you
know
katie
it's
been,
it
was
really
revelatory
to
me.
I
never
really
focused
on
the
fact
that
it
was
during
the
20s
and
30s
when
all
of
those
names
changed.
It
was
just
part
of
the
south
trying
to
re
re,
re-fight
and
relitigate.
The
civil
war
and
they've
been
doing
that.
That's
been
far
too
successful.