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Mississippi school drops Jefferson Davis to rename itself after Barack Obama
The Telegraph ^ | 10-18-2017 | Barney Henderson

Posted on 10/18/2017 4:29:54 PM PDT by NRx

A school in Mississippi is dropping its connection to the American Confederacy's only president, Jefferson Davis, and renaming itself after President Barack Obama.

Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School in Jackson will be renamed Barack Obama Magnet IB following a vote.

The move, which when approved will come into force in the next academic year, was proposed by parents and approved by a majority of students, parents, faculty and staff members.

Ninety-eight percent of the students who attend the school are African-American.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: education; ib; ibelementaryschool; mississippi; robertelee; searchworks
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To: manc

They don’t see or know any of that, all they know is that he is the 1st black president . . . they don’t even realize that he’s only half black . . . hehehehe . . . SAD!!!


61 posted on 10/19/2017 5:07:50 AM PDT by rhubarbk ("Liberals are the stool in the community pool" . . . Hat Tip to rockinqsranch)
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To: manc

They don’t see or know any of that, all they know is that he is the 1st black president . . . they don’t even realize that he’s only half black . . . hehehehe . . . SAD!!!


62 posted on 10/19/2017 5:07:51 AM PDT by rhubarbk ("Liberals are the stool in the community pool" . . . Hat Tip to rockinqsranch)
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To: NRx

In some ways this is very consistent. Naming the school after Jefferson Davis was an overt political act — Davis isn’t some well respected figure like Lee. He was a very controversial political lightning rod. Some Dixiecrat named the school after Davis as a political act to show white Southern Democrat unity. Now that the Dems’ liberal base has moved on from using white supremacy to maintain their political power, its time to change the name to Obama’s name in another overt political act.


63 posted on 10/19/2017 5:53:13 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: dsc

Partner, this is exactly one of the main reasons we want to see the college records.

This is all we are asking.

President Trump released his college records.

The Rats will always choose to have these records made confidential. This is hogwash if you are running for POTUS.

George W. Bush released his college records. Our Far Left Fake News MSM hounded him for these records and he released them. The Fake News crowd still hounded him forever after he released his records since they were average greades and still the Fake News crowd hounded him forever since the Far Left, Fake News MSM is the right arm of the Rat party.

We now know that the whole Far Left, Fake News Crowd MSM voted 98% for Miss Hillary.

It is really mind boggling when we let it sink in.

64 posted on 10/19/2017 7:36:26 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: NRx

Drop the name of a Confederate General for the name of a Racist Ex-President!


65 posted on 10/19/2017 7:43:59 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Eleutheria5

Uh, BS?


66 posted on 10/19/2017 7:48:42 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: NRx



67 posted on 10/19/2017 8:00:19 AM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: Eleutheria5

Many countries have split up, just in the last 20 years. It is not that big a deal to seek to avoid control by distant and hostile politicians. Do you remember the USSR , Checkoslavakia.


68 posted on 10/19/2017 9:11:39 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Very funny, a literalist progressive.


69 posted on 10/19/2017 9:29:17 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: Neoliberalnot

Irrelevant. The Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter, and that constituted taking up arms against the United States. They were in effect in revolt, and the revolt was treason, as defined by the Constitution. Jeff Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and all the other revered heroes of the secessionist revolt committed treason. That’s historical fact. Whether their cause was just or not, it was treason.

Obama gave aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, made common cause with the enemies of the United States against the United States, and there are more than one witness to these overt acts of treason. OK. He hasn’t been prosecuted. Yet. None of the Confederate leaders were prosecuted, either. So if they gotta replace Jefferson Davis High with Barack Hussein Obama High, it’s all the same, except I think Jeff Davis was more principled, albeit treasonous.


70 posted on 10/19/2017 9:36:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

It is quite relevant. The south just wanted to be left alone. Are you American?


71 posted on 10/19/2017 12:02:50 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: manc
Just How Damn Stupid are these folks in Mississippi .....Barry was the dumbest ass ever to become prezident on the USA.
72 posted on 10/19/2017 12:15:45 PM PDT by mastertex
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To: Eleutheria5
imageimage image What does naturalization mean? Keep US citizenship the same natural kind?
73 posted on 10/19/2017 12:21:03 PM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: NRx

The Civil War was fought over slavery. The South wanted to preserve it. They lost. Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy. I mean, if I were black, I’d probably find it a little odd that I was attending a 98% black school named after Davis. Of course, I’m sure history education is so bad, even all the way through high school, none of these kids will know who Jefferson Davis was and certainly not the party affiliation of the President that signed the Emancipation Proclamation, if that’s even studied.

However, since the Civil Rights movement, the Democratic Party—having never stopped being the racist organization it was before, during, and after the Civil War—has worked extremely hard and been extremely effective at getting the blacks to ENSLAVE THEMSELVES with the Dems as their massas.

Barack Obama is the culmination of decades of this “race first” victimhood mentality. The least qualified person ever to run for office was clearly elected because of his race, and subsequently spent eight years lighting a blazing inferno of further self-separation and victimhood in the black community, setting race relations back decades if not more, and greatly furthering this self-enslavement.

Really, which namesake on this school should be abhorrent to those offended by slavery? The open proponent of forced slavery or the snake who convinces “his people” to put themselves in chains?


74 posted on 10/19/2017 12:28:48 PM PDT by According2RecentPollsAirIsGood
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To: Eleutheria5
UnNaturalization....unkind, not the same kindred. image
75 posted on 10/19/2017 12:30:15 PM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: Eleutheria5
Naturalization....the Founders language was Middle English image
76 posted on 10/19/2017 12:33:31 PM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: Eleutheria5
Congress only citizenship power is keeping USA citizenship the same natural kind via naturalization. image
77 posted on 10/19/2017 12:38:03 PM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: Eleutheria5
UnNaturalization...do you see what Congress did? image image image
78 posted on 10/19/2017 12:46:21 PM PDT by bushpilot2
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To: NRx

My mom went to Davis long ago


79 posted on 10/19/2017 12:48:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: NRx

Idealistically they have a lot in common.


80 posted on 10/19/2017 1:34:55 PM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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