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Move To Name School For Obama Sparks Marin Debate (Move to Dis Martin Luther King)
CBS 5 ^ | Dec 11, 2008

Posted on 12/11/2008 6:48:28 PM PST by nickcarraway

Barack Obama isn't even president yet, but a community in Main is thinking about naming a middle school for him.

By the beginning of the next school year, Marin City middle school students will have a new building to study in. The question is will the new school also have a new name?

It's a debate because the current name is Martin Luther King Jr. Academy, and some aren't ready for that to change.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: marin; martinlutherking; thechosenone

1 posted on 12/11/2008 6:48:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

They are changing the school nickname from Saints to the “Uhs”.


2 posted on 12/11/2008 6:52:11 PM PST by Patrick1 (conform and celebrate diversityÂ….or else!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Now, everyone knows it’s “The REVerend DOCtor MARtin LUther KING, JUNior!”

Accented in all the proper places, and said in street rhythm.

Anything else is racist.

You’re not a racist, are you?

An’ don’ be dissin’ Da One, dawg...


3 posted on 12/11/2008 6:53:13 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: nickcarraway
“Barack Obama isn't even president yet, but a community in Main is thinking about naming a middle school for him. “

Even if he has to let Biden take the oath on January 20 due his being indicted?

4 posted on 12/11/2008 6:57:28 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I can't wait for January 20, 2013")
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To: nickcarraway

Nuts!


5 posted on 12/11/2008 6:58:27 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: nickcarraway

What......they can only have one school named for a black person at a time?

Just how white IS that community?


6 posted on 12/11/2008 7:02:35 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Patrick1

usually, they don’t dedicate names of schools til the person is deceased. Are they knowing something that we do not?


7 posted on 12/11/2008 7:04:54 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: nickcarraway

I would like to see the % of graduation from the schoools that were named after MLK and compare those same schools that were named after Eisenhower.......just saying.


8 posted on 12/11/2008 7:05:13 PM PST by mmanager (It is time to prune the tree.)
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To: mmanager
My son went to MLK Elementary here in Rio Rancho, NM.

About 6 black kids in the whole school.

White liberal guilt..

9 posted on 12/11/2008 7:09:22 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: nickcarraway

Rush talked about this upcoming phenomenon a week or so ago. Street names, etc., renamed for lgo.


10 posted on 12/11/2008 7:52:56 PM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Crusher138

If it is really that heavily white, rename it Margaret Sanger Elenmentary School. The name will explain why there are so few black children.


11 posted on 12/11/2008 7:58:53 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: nickcarraway

yikes...the King family will, of course, sue !


12 posted on 12/11/2008 8:07:47 PM PST by stylin19a ( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
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To: nickcarraway

Can’t have that, MLK was reputed to have been a Pubbie, and we can’t name schools after a Pubbie.


13 posted on 12/11/2008 8:16:39 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Cacique

Time for a compromise. Keep the school name the same and dedicate the bathrooms to Obama.


14 posted on 12/11/2008 8:30:06 PM PST by blue running dog
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To: Cacique

He was a pubbie early in his life as were many blacks but that all changed by the time his life ended. He was pretty left wing by then.


15 posted on 12/11/2008 9:18:45 PM PST by xp38
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To: BenLurkin
Unfortunate tupoe in the original story. It's Marin County, directly north of San Francisco. Home of Sausalito, Mill Valley, and a couple dozen other sanctimonious me-me-me greeny-lefty communities.

Except for San Rafael's Canal District, which in recent years has gone bronze to the gills, and Marin City, which is the county's token ghetto, Marin is as white-white-white la-la lib as it gets.

16 posted on 12/11/2008 9:49:04 PM PST by Tenniel2 (Sometimes you have to confront evil head-on. Mutt-boy delenda est.)
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To: xp38

Kinda like GWB.


17 posted on 12/12/2008 12:43:45 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
If it is really that heavily white, rename it Margaret Sanger Elenmentary School. The name will explain why there are so few black children.

New Mexico has very few black people. High, no humidity, lots of Latinos...maybe they don't feel welcome?

18 posted on 12/12/2008 2:03:03 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: nickcarraway

Typical of our land today:

Name a school after a man who has accomplished nothing in his life, as an inspiration to children same man would like to see aborted.

Bizarro America has arrived.


19 posted on 12/12/2008 2:10:13 PM PST by exit82 (It's all Obama's fault. And Biden is still a moron. They are both above their paygrade.)
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To: Crusher138
High, no humidity, lots of Latinos...maybe they don't feel welcome?

That is certainly one possibility. But I was really referring to Margaret Sanger's professed desire to exterminate them.

20 posted on 12/12/2008 3:28:22 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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