thebeave
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https://abc7news.com/sfusd-board-meeting-san-francisco-unified-schools-district-school-name-changes/10076023/
No historians were involved to provide context or fact checking? I'm shocked I tell you...Shocked!.
Kinda makes you wonder how far the "progressives" are going to take this. What about all the US President portraits in the classrooms (do they still have those?). Will Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, et al have a blank space where their picture was, with a large, diagonally slanted "CANCELLED" in its place?
I find it amusing, but not really surprising, that the President of the SF chapter of the NAACP, doesn't like the change (with regard to Feinstein at least):
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The names of 44 schools in San Francisco will be eventually dropped and changed. The San Francisco School Board decided on Tuesday night that the people which have schools named after them have "ties to racism" or have "dishonorable legacies."
Junipero Serra Elementary, Washington High School, Dianne Feinstein Elementary, and Lowell High School are among the 44 San Francisco schools whose names are scheduled to be changed. The reason has sparked a lot of controversy.
The school board arrived at this decision after a special committee comprised of educators, students and former school board members came up with a list of people they believe supported oppression, slavery and were therefore racists. It's believed that no historians were asked to weigh in.
No historians were involved to provide context or fact checking? I'm shocked I tell you...Shocked!.
Kinda makes you wonder how far the "progressives" are going to take this. What about all the US President portraits in the classrooms (do they still have those?). Will Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, et al have a blank space where their picture was, with a large, diagonally slanted "CANCELLED" in its place?
I find it amusing, but not really surprising, that the President of the SF chapter of the NAACP, doesn't like the change (with regard to Feinstein at least):
"I do not think we should make snap prejudicial judgements without the facts," said Reverend Amos Brown, the President of the San Francisco Chapter of the NAACP and someone who has known Senator Feinstein for more than 40 years.