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Richmond school drops Confederate name in favor of Barack Obama
CNN ^ | June 19, 2018 | By Madison Park

Posted on 06/19/2018 6:09:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Hyman Roth

The stain is fighting for his faction to control the DNC. Or at least that’s my take on many of these Muslim candidates.


61 posted on 06/19/2018 9:19:50 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: txrefugee

What LIB idiots, naming their school after the Greatest Fraud and Traitor in US history. Isn’t this child abuse?


62 posted on 06/19/2018 9:20:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’d pull my children, let the school become exactly what the Blacks want............segregated.


63 posted on 06/19/2018 9:45:27 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As long as we’re talking about naming things after BO. A friend of mine had colon cancer several years ago. As a result he now wears a colostomy bag. The nurse at the hospital informed him that he was supposed to name his colostomy bag and what name would he choose. He said he was going to call him “Barry”. She said why and he said he’s full of $hit! When I see him now I always ask “How’s Barry?”


64 posted on 06/19/2018 1:23:03 PM PDT by Tommygun99 (I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here!)
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To: Slyfox

Special....


65 posted on 06/19/2018 1:29:23 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Regressive Swamp Dwellers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can’t wait to see what happens when Donald J Trump High Scool is dedicated.


66 posted on 06/19/2018 1:33:30 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Regressive Swamp Dwellers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

School Digger has the stat Free/discounted lunch recipients at 96.4%, so I guess the name Barack Obama Elementary is fitting.


67 posted on 06/19/2018 1:36:11 PM PDT by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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To: Trump20162020

JEB Stuart HS in Fairfax County became Justice HS.
I graduated from JEB Stuart in ‘77...


68 posted on 06/19/2018 1:59:42 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: null and void
Yes, generally not a wise idea to name something after someone who is still alive...although in the Early Republic lots of towns and counties were named for heroes of the Revolution (Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Rogers Clark, Henry Knox, and many others). More recently, Cincinnati named a street after Pete Rose (before his disgrace)--not smart.

I wonder what some of the unsuccessful suggestions for renaming this school were...Che Guevara? Pol Pot? Karl Marx? Nat Turner? Trayvon Martin?

If a school which has a 95% black student body needs to be named after a black person, there are lots of more suitable people who could have been chosen. Arthur Ashe? Frederick Douglass? Jackie Robinson? Thurgood Marshall? Ralph Bunche?

69 posted on 06/19/2018 5:00:06 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
... there are lots of more suitable people who could have been chosen.

That's always the case.

Why do we have a hundred schools named after John F. Kennedy?

Because the people who decide these things (and the rest of the public) can only keep a few names in their heads.

70 posted on 06/19/2018 5:14:05 PM PDT by x
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do it.

Which people knowingly move on to MLK boulevard?

Which people knowingly move to Barack boulevard?


71 posted on 06/19/2018 5:35:47 PM PDT by TheNext
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