School may drop Lincoln holiday in favor of Cesar Chavaz birthday [California]

Oakland Tribune ^ | May 6, 2000 | Jason Bono

[Orual]

"The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has several objects belonging to Chávez on display, including his jacket with a "No Grapes" button attached."

[BillyBoy]

>> Who left the Klan and asked that his name be taken from association with them in 1869 because of the direction the Klan was going <<

You should really get a job with the West Virginia Democratic Party. You'd make an excellent Robert Byrd apologist. ('See, he left the KKK after a little while... so that makes it okay, now can we get back to bashing the evil capitalist Republicans?')

[TxBec]

Pardon me while I change the subject

"It won't change my opinion about that day and how I feel about it," said the 17-year-old senior. "That day is always a special day for me. It's a day that you feel pride for being Latino. It's a feeling of energy and power."

As a "Latina" American, I don't need a special day to remind me of who I am...Does celebrating Lincoln's birthday make you proud to be an American, or are you proud on the other 364 days of the year as well? I thought the point of the holiday was to honor a great American, not to "empower" us...

[TxBec]

I'm just venting because I don't get that day off LOL

[StockAyatollah]

So they're trading a fascist holiday for a commie holiday?

[hillyes]

EASY ON THE NEO-CONFEDERATES!!!Seems that I remember a a school in Louisiana a couple of years ago changing the name of a school named after George Washington.

[Eternal_Bear]

Can Pancho Villa Day be far behind?

[Eternal_Bear]

Confederate States of Aztlan?

[wimpycat]

Regarding your freepmail reply, you'd better hurry before I get really tired and fall asleep.

Regarding a Cesar Chavez birthday, I'm at war with myself over my belief in local control of schools versus dumping a great American like Lincoln out the window.

[Salman]

And wasn't there some grape thing?

Same guy.

[4CJ]

This should make the Neoconfederates on this board happy.

As a southerner who proudly celebrates his heritage, I disagree with your assertion. It's sad that ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide is occurring - I agree with with BurkeCalhounDabney in post #24"

We tried to warn the Yankees. We tried to tell them that once the PC Nazis had destroyed the good name of Robert E. Lee, they'd come next for the heroes of the North and the nation: Christopher Columbus, Washington, Jefferson, yes, and now even Mr. Lincoln himself! But would the Yankees listen? Can they ever stoop to consider the opinions of their inferior, backward, ignorant, bigoted Southern countrymen? Bah!

Deo Vindice.