Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis will get new name

BringMeTheNews ^ | 8/17/22 | TOMMY WIITA

[Fireone]

I might suggest Raile Odungo High School, in honor of another Kenyan, who hates America.

[viewfromthefrontier]

How about "Sir Gibmedats High School and Drug Emporium"?

Humor post of the day! Seriously, how many of these folks know anything about Patrick Henry? Then why get all offended? Ignorance is, um, bliss, I guess.

[BatGuano]

Minnesotans have lost their minds.

Likely, now, to rename the school Al Franken High!

I suggest that the state be given back to the Indians.

[Honorary Serb]

I stand corrected.

But Patrick Henry had a lot to do with how the Declaration came into being.

[frank ballenger]

Exactly. The despots always destroy history and let the new “history” begin the day they got in power.

[rlmorel]

In Acton, Massachusetts, home to Captain Isaac Davis (a popular 30-year-old gunsmith of the day who answered the call to fight on April 19th, 1775 and faced off against British Regulars at the North Bridge in Concord, MA) they put out this successful petition to change the name of the high school teams and mascot at Acton-Boxborough High School from "The Colonials" to "The Revolution".

Not that bad, one might think.

But not "The Revolution" you might think.

Here is the successful petition:

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The Black Lives Matter movement demands change on all levels, both nationally and locally. One way to affirm the Black Lives Matter movement in our own Acton-Boxborough community is to refuse to celebrate colonialism, a social system that harmed native peoples physically and culturally. Furthermore, colonialism brought slavery to the Americas and the idea of race that white people used to justify it. Therefore, colonialism is a historical reason for why the Black Lives Matter movement must exist in the current moment.

Our mascot is currently the Acton-Boxborough Colonial, which is physically represented by a white, male colonist (featured on AB Beacon on 6/3/20). Although mascots intend to bring fan bases together, the AB mascot gives a likeable face to a time period that set the stage for present day racial divisions. Changing the mascot is an ethical and educational action that will underscore the need to know real, and not sugar coated, representations of the past.

We are not effective supporters of Black Lives Matters unless we challenge the normalization of colonialism in our daily lives. To do so, we need to take concrete actions, starting by changing the narratives that we tell. Narratives have power. We need a symbol for school spirit that is not at odds with our mission statement (ABRHS mission statement), rather than a symbol associated with racism and oppression.

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I know. Shouldn't expect anything else from an indoctrination center in a blue state, but...disgusting nonetheless.

Makes my blood boil.

[one guy in new jersey]

He did. And how.

[Chode]

[Mashood]

Master D Puff High School

[17th Miss Regt]

How about Wayne Williams High School?

[NorthMountain]

Be honest. Rename it “Kill the Honkeys!!!! School of Racial Bigotry”.

[napscoordinator]

I bet a George Floyd school will pop up soon enough. Elementary school most likely to make it even worse.

[TChad]

Barack Obama Elementary ranks worse than 95.7% of elementary schools in Virginia.

Ouch.

How do they rank as babysitters?

[nutmeg]

SO sick of this sh*t.

[Highest Authority]

The new …Karl Marx school.

[Apparatchik]

The newly named school, and Democrat voters everywhere, can still use the last line of Patrick Henry’s famous quote as its motto.

But just the first two words.

[gnickgnack2]

But where’re you gonna graduate from, Mudhead?

[SuperLuminal]

"Wokism" my butt!

Stinking communist strategy!

The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

[Verginius Rufus]

Patrick Henry did not sign the Declaration of Independence. (He didn't sign the U.S. Constitution either--he was one of the leading opponents of ratification in the Virginia convention which ultimately voted to ratify by a narrow margin.)

Maybe rename the school for Lord Dunmore, who called on the slaves in Virginia to rebel against their masters and fight for the British.

[muir_redwoods]

Can I get $20 down on “Kunta Kinte” high school?