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After this article published online, Ellis relayed his reaction Thursday through a blog called Bacon’s Rebellion.

This move can be seen as far back as the reaction to Bacon's rebellion in 1676 since it was after this white working class rebellion that the white elite institutionalized the privileges and rights of Whiteness in contrast to the category of Blackness.

He was “prepared to use a small razor blade” to remove it but was stopped by student “ambassadors,” who threatened to restrain him, according to Ellis’s written account in the conservative blog Bacon’s Rebellion.

McLean also writes for Bacon’s Rebellion, a conservative commentary site, and serves on the board of the Jefferson Council, a group aimed at preserving Thomas Jefferson’s heritage at the University of Virginia.

The school district’s new gifted policy, he argued on his Bacon’s Rebellion blog, is “a leveling strategy designed to reduce the outward signs of racial disparities without doing the hard work of addressing the system’s underlying failures.”