Groan….

Via The Hill:

An online petition is calling for renaming a street named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.

The petition, on the website Change.org, is urging officials to rename the stretch of road in Arlington, Va. that is near Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport in the wake of efforts around the country to remove the Confederate flag and other images that are associated with the losing side of the Civil War.

“Jefferson Davis was hailed as the ‘champion of a slave society’ when he was selected in 1861 to become President of the Confederate States of America,” says the petition, which is directed at Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D).

“Davis was an unrepentant white supremacist who fervently believed the Southern cause, slavery and segregation were right and just until his last dying breath in 1889,” the petition continues. “It is therefore outrageous that a major Virginia thoroughfare, Jefferson Davis Highway (aka Route 1) which abuts the Pentagon and other US Capital landmarks continues to bear the name of a morally depraved, non-Virginian who rejected the very idea of a United States.”

The petition had just over 3,500 signatures as of 4:10 p.m. on Monday.