Burke, Virginia, is named after an enslaver. A journalist wants to change that | Virginia

A former reporter has launched a campaign to rename his Virginia hometown, Burke, to stop the commemoration of an enslaver and instead honor a child he enslaved, a six-year-old boy named Fenton.“My town is named after an unusually horrible person,” David Martosko said, “but it doesn’t have to be. Names say something about who we are and what we aspire to become.“I can’t imagine anyone of any conscience in my community defending this guy. I hope honouring a child he owned will appeal to my community’s basic sense of right and wrong.”Martosko worked for the Daily Caller…