Berkeley School Wants To Change Name From Jefferson

NBC11 ^ | 3/25/05 | staf

[Route101]

L.O.L.......forget about the school name you village idiots...just teach the kids to at least tie their shoes!...What a joke!

[LibertarianInExile]

Not gonna happen--it's been settled. This will be the new "Jefferson Airplane Elementary."

[LibertarianInExile]

Ping to 22.

[gakrak]

Gee, if it was me it would be a non starter. By the way how are the kids doing with their ability to read and write? How about a look at their standardized test scores! They worry about being offensive because of the name of their school./sarc. This must be the most ridiculous item of the day. Amen.

[Alia]

LOL! They really should be realistic about their new name of school. I propose "Shade Grown" for their new name...

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Good idea - then we can tatoo the students with their Gulag number and serial number.

I wonder if Ronald Reagan made the list? How about Paul Revere? No slaves there. Really the case is anti white male traditional values - has nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with promotion of the culture of crap.

Divas Husband

[sergeantdave]

Yo! 2 + 2 = 5 Elementalry Skool, Dude

[ran15]

At the rate California is going down, in fifteen years it will be a hate crime just to BE a white man there.

[ran15]

Edi Amin Elementary

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

Berkeley, like San Francisco across the bay, hasn't really been part of California for years.

If they will change it to no-longer-paid-for-with-taxpayer's-money Elementary School, I don't care what they name it.

Michael Frazier

[SpyGuy]

Really the case is anti white male traditional values

More than that, it's about anti-Americanism.

[Clock King]

It's very clear that the name is offensive to a significant part of the population,"

I find that sort of non-thinking very offensive, really!

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

There are parts of West Oakland where being white isn't a crime but you get punished for it anyway. Of course that is true for parts of any big city. You know, places like Detroit, Paris, Rotterdam, Brussels, etc.

Michael

[Comus]

How about Dewey Kamp #001. Public schools are about social engineering not education. The real goal is to produce good obedient idiots who think rights flow from the government.

[FNU LNU]

While today both Washington and Jefferson are roundly condemned for owning slaves, it is nevertheless true that they both laid the first seeds for the abolition of slavery in the United States. Their first obstacle was the laws of Virginia Colony which forbade the freeing of slaves. When Jefferson tried to change the laws of Virginia in 1769, he ran into an obstruction in Crown law, which gave the Crown the unilateral and unambiguous power to strike down any and all American laws on any subject whatsoever. Virginians simply didn't have the liberty to free slaves.

Indeed, one great reason the Revolution was fought was to give liberty to the colonies to free slaves, which many of them did after we declared our independence. For example, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1780, Connecticut and Rhode Island did so in 1784, Vermont in 1786, New Hampshire in 1792, New York in 1799, New Jersey in 1804, etc.

[California Patriot]

They care about these things, or that's my impression. And they're slowly learning about them. But there is still much work to be done educationally. There's also the question of what, if anything, people will actually do about such problems.