San Fran to rename schools that honor racists, supremists

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Thanks harris/biden*.

The Mike Brown Middle School has a distinct California ring to it.

San Francisco will rename 44 schools, including campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

The new namesakes for the schools must adhere to a new set of guidelines, including that individuals honored by a renaming are not slave owners or abetted in slavery or genocide, attached to human rights violations, or are "known racists and/or white supremacists."

Washington and Jefferson, for instance, were slaveowners, while former San Francisco mayor Feinstein was listed after reportedly reinstating Confederate flags by City Hall in the '80s. Lincoln, widely revered for his issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, was chosen based on "his treatment of First Nation peoples,

San Francisco to rename 44 schools with 'racist' namesakes, including Washington, Lincoln, Feinstein (sfgate.com)

 

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Shanequa Jones High School. Leroy Tyrone Muhammed Smiff Grade school.