30 Dec 2020 3:10 pm
Oh, are liberals back to honoring our Forefathers again? Sorry, I missed the notification after seeing how such evil men are having the schools renamed as demanded by BLM:
Two schools honoring Washington and Jefferson to be renamed in 'support of Black Lives Matter'by Emma Colton, Social Media Manager | June 17, 2020
Two public schools in Berkeley, California, will remove their names commemorating Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson amid renewed and widespread calls from the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.
The Berkeley Unified School District approved a “Resolution in Support of Black Lives Matter” last week, following weeks of nationwide protests and riots denouncing systemic racism and police brutality sparked by the death of a black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day. Both schools are named after presidents who owned slaves.
The school district also announced it would launch a “Black Joy Campaign,” which will be a year-round initiative to train teachers on racial equality and collect data from the schools, the SF Gate reported.
Washington and Lee University professors discuss name change and removal of all references to the Confederacy
- By ELIZABETH BELL Richmond Times-Dispatch Jun 24, 2020
You must be SO proud!Detroit teachers want slaveholders’ names removed from 3 charter schoolsKoby Levin Chalkbeat Detroit Aug. 3, 2020
The legacies of historical figures including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison “are deeply rooted in the soil of racism and separatism,” a group of teachers at Cornerstone Schools, a network of charter schools in Detroit, wrote in a letter to the network’s CEO this month.
The teachers pointed out that the school names in question — Washington-Parks, Madison-Carver and Jefferson-Douglass academies — link slaveholders with the names of prominent Black Americans Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, and Frederick Douglass. They noted that almost every student at Cornerstone schools is Black.