Gravy Chambers getting more air play - He wants more. Shocker...

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With Lee High School poised to get a new name, Baton Rouge activist Gary Chambers is focusing on removing other symbols of the Confederacy in Louisiana, but also removing from office the politician he famously criticized Thursday night, East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member Connie Bernard.

The video of Chambers’ address to Bernard has gone viral, shared by big entertainments and popular figures like LeBron James. On Monday morning, James spoke on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” talk show.

“You have black folks speaking up passionately about what they feel, while you have a School Board member, a representative of the people, a Republican, who’s sitting there scrolling on the internet,” he continued. “Until Connie Bernard is off the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, we still have work to do,” Chambers said on the talk show.

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Chambers also repeated his call that streets near Lee High, several of them named after Confederate generals, be renamed.

“There’s even a street named Whitehaven,” he said.

And then he took aim at the name of a state university in Thibodaux.

“We have slaves etched on the exterior of the state Capital while there is a statue for former brigadier general of the Confederacy, (Francis T.) Nicholls, which is also Nicholls State University,” Chambers said. “Until every monument to white supremacy is removed and we begin to uplift the proper voices, we’ve got work to do.”

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