Posted on 04/02/2021 3:58:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
A middle school in Illinois wanted to change its name. You guessed correctly—it was over being named after a problematic individual. Thomas Jefferson Middle School near Chicago wanted to be renamed after Barack Obama, but the illegal alien community was not pleased, saying the most popular Democratic president in recent memory and his deportation history was deeply disturbing or something. This is truly silly season. It’s ridiculous the Left has a stroke over Thomas Jefferson, one of our finest presidents and a Founding Father. It’s even more comical that Barack Obama is now being canceled (via Washington Examiner):
Immigration activists near Chicago are protesting renaming a middle school after former President Barack Obama due to his record on deportations."I will not be part of renaming a school after someone who did not and does not represent the undocumented community," said District 60 school board member Edgar Castellanos.
Waukegan's Board of Education met Tuesday evening to discuss renaming Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Daniel Webster Middle School. Both schools came under name review for having titles tied to historical men who either owned slaves or supported slavery.
A name commemorating Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama is one of the top choices for Thomas Jefferson Middle School’s new title, but activists are pushing back and held a protest outside of the board’s meeting on Tuesday.
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“If you’re removing the name of Thomas Jefferson, one oppressor, the name of Obama is another oppressor, and our families do not want to see that name,” she added.
One woman, Mauricio Sanchez, said the name change honoring Obama would serve as a painful reminder that her father was deported under his administration.
These people…it’s funny when they eat their own. This isn’t going to be a widespread thing, however. The same people who heckled Obama every now and then over deportation are the same folks causing a ruckus now. Yet, it once again shows that cancel culture is a thing—and it can come for anyone. And yes, a lot of people are worried about it too.
The only way Obama is ever going to get a completed Presidential Center is by renaming someone’s.
Or you’re not ignorant of history.
Waukegan? Are they going to rename the Jack Benny school also?
Why move to a country that “opresses” you? Stay home and attend a school named after some drug lord in Mexico if you don’t like America.
Cancel Mark Twain! Huckleberry Finn used the N word too often. Cancel Alexandre Dumont. He hid his blackness.
Cancel Abraham Lincoln again, just because we can.
Cancel Bre’er Rabbit!
Cancel Walt Disney for the crows.
Cancel William Shakespeare for Aaron the Moor and Othello. His real name was Billy Joe Bob Shakespeare, wasn’t it. WASN’T IT! I bet he voted Trump.
Cancel Jack Benny. Rochester made a fool out of him on every show, but he had to speak with a minstrel accent, instead of like a Harvard professor.
Cancel Thomas Sowell, Candace Owen, Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Bo Snerdly, Frederick Douglas, Nat Turner, jibberjabberjibberjabberjibberjabberjibber!
Mr. T! I pity da fool!
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I love this little guy.
Just get it over with and name it after Mao.
It's so true. Before I was permabanned from Trotter, when they were tearing down statues last summer and Xiden botched the Narrative completely in his 1st Overdue Press Clatch ...
"what we’ve seen happen, is don’t be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of Jefferson Davis. It’s better that they do not, but is fundamentally different than pulling down the statue or going to the Lincoln Memorial and trying to pull a… Not Lincoln Memorial. That’s a bad example. The Jefferson Memorial and grabbing Jefferson off his chair.'
Nancy jumped on Twotter and took issue with similar Progressives who screamed 'Tear down Lincoln', and I posted a short screed to Robotox that 'someday soon they will tear down your statue, you dumb incognizant bitch'.
Remember FRiends the Cultural Revolution ran for 10 freaking years and did not end until Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four were arrested in '76.
The French Revolution also ran 10 years and did not even end after Robespierre was justly beheaded in 1794, but only after the Directory was abolished by the Consulate in 1799, with essentially the Bonaparte brothers at the head of an empiric junta.
Boy are you in for a rude surprise, Matt Vespa, when Chauvin is only given Man2 -- burMN baby burMN, and Xiden will own it.
It may be so bad, so much more widespread than even last summer, that they will fool Xiden into posse comitatus or a Kent State and use that as the precise pretext to trigger 25A.
What if the progressives convince all these migras to riot in their border cells -- their leaders are connected to the same godless pendejos running the show and calling the shots in this story!
” a painful reminder that her father was deported under his administration.”
Much like that bogus Nobel Peace Prize, Caliph Baraq was having madrassas named after him within weeks of taking office LOL.
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