Matt Haney
Posted on 09/14/2016 9:23:36 AM PDT by massmike
The head of San Francisco’s school board wants to strip the names of slaveholders off local public schools like George Washington High School, one of many schools in The City named after dead white men with “problematic” histories, he said Monday.
Board of Education President Matt Haney is expected to introduce a resolution as early as next week encouraging schools in the San Francisco Unified School District that bear the names of men with questionable human rights legacies to consider proposing new monikers.
Haney is hoping the school district can have more schools named after people of color, women and LGBT figures, he said.
The idea came to him after listening to a sermon Sunday at Third Baptist Church, a black church in the Western Addition, about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick protesting the national anthem in recent weeks. The song’s slave-owning author, Francis Scott Key, has a school named after him in the Outer Sunset.
Haney stirred up a conversation Sunday when he posted on Facebook that Washington High should drop the first president’s name and instead be called Maya Angelou High School after the famed author and poet who attended school there.
“We tearing them all down,” wrote in a Facebook comment in response to a suggestion that the school named after Key be renamed after Kaepernick. “No schools named after people who bought and owned human beings and committed genocide.”
Haney is running for re-election to the school board in November.
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Matt Haney
I couldn’t give a #### what San Fran does. Or NYC, and I live here! Well, on Staten Island so the edicts dont effect me nearly as much.
Trump will win handily and liberal cesspools will likely always be liberal cesspools. #### em.
Wow! That’s all they think about George Washington? That he was a slave holder???? Unbelievable!
Erasing history
SF might as well secede from the union as an independent city state. They are completely cut off culturally from these United States of America. I’ll gladly pay an extra one-time tax to fund their secession payment.
Haney stirred up a conversation Sunday when he posted on Facebook that Washington High should drop the first president’s name and instead be called Maya Angelou High School after the famed author and poet who attended school there.
Is She a Descendant from the FIRST LEGAL SLAVE OWNER IN THE US?? Anthony Johnson
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson
SOUNDS LIKE A SLAVE OWNER TO ME.
George Washington, Francis Scott Key, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Lick are now in the basket of deplorables? This country has gone insane.
Looks like it is time to rename the City of San Franisco.
“No schools named after people who bought and owned human beings and committed genocide.”
OK. But also, no schools named after wife-beaters, men who hired prostitutes and beat them, men who extorted money intended for the poor and used it for themselves, etc.
(I’m speaking of several prominent leaders in the civil rights movement, for those curious.)
If you want perfect people, you’ll have to look elsewhere than planet earth.
I can't think of a better teacher to have a school named for?
Suggested replacement names:
Buggery High
Sodomy School
Sphincter Academy
Body Fluids Exchange
Deviancy Center
Prostitute Institute
Anus Campus
BJ Given Elementary
AbNormal U
Virtue Signalling Prep
I wouldn’t be surprised if leftist school systems start burning books that have the temerity to mention the names of these dead white founders of our country.
We need to rehabilitate George Washington.
“Barack ain’ never gonna let you go back to the way you was before...” (mike)
Yeah, but didn’t NYC named a discriminatory school after a deceased homosexual-pedophile mayor of SF?
How about if they concern themselves with improving the education of the students instead of the name of the school.
Because that would require work?
The SF School Board doesn’t really represent the parents.
George Washington HS is nearly 100% Asian (my daughter went there for a year) and the parents there are very happy with the name. They WANT to be American.
Work? That’s a 4 letter word to the teacher’s union.
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