Posted on 10/24/2017 7:35:41 AM PDT by kevcol
OK, rename them “Booker T. Washington”, and place his most famous statement for all to see:
“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
PHAT & GUILTY.
You think that’s what made her so phat?
NO!
That's all she should eat.
I can’t tell you how stupid this really is. I am Choctaw and wake up every day in Payne County, Oklahoma. Named after David Payne, a “Boomer” who hated Indians and was instrumental in getting our Oklahoma lands (to which we had already been resettled) taken from us permanently. Much like being Jewish and living in “Hitler County,” Germany.
Big deal. This PC idiocy has gone on way too long. History is history and it’s time to get on with life. BTW, Stand Watie was Cherokee. He was the highest ranking Indian on either side of the combatants during the War Between the States, and the last General to lay down arms.
Such lunacy. Two interesting points....one of the schools in question was named for a Cherokee Indian Chief, Stand Watie, who fought for the Confederacy. But only maybe 1in 10,000 people knew that he was a confederate general. The other two schools were Lee Elementary and Jefferson Elementary. No first names attached. It took weeks of historic research by the school system and the Oklahoma Historical Society to even determine if they were named for Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They weren’t even sure. They finally found a vague reference in some school board meeting minutes from decades ago. There was a fourth school named Wheeler that the handful that complained in the first place named as also being offensive. During that same research, they found it was named for an OKC early pioneer. Not a confederate general. So it was really a few folks who went out searching for a controversy that didn’t exist.
The other point is the principals of the 3 schools said that no students or parents of any of those schools had complained or wanted the names changed. In fact, the patrons of those schools wanted them to remain unchanged. And these schools are all in minority neighborhoods. So it was outsiders who went looking for a controversy and stirred the pot.
My opinion:
It’s too late.
I don’t know of any big city that is conservative!!!
Could be.
Even if she started fasting now, she may well die of old age before she reached normal weight.
While most counties that include major cities are blue, Oklahoma and Tulsa Counties (along with Tarrant County in Texas) are actually red. OKC, Tulsa, and Fort Worth all have Republican mayors, the only major cities that do.
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