Forrest High: Board begins name-change process

Florida Times Union ^ | 11/09/13 | Denise Smith Amos

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Duval County School Board members voted unanimously Friday to start the process that likely would remove the name Nathan B. Forrest from one of its high schools.

All seven board members voted to formally accept the written request of District 5 board member Constance Hall to begin the name-change procedure.

[abishai]

Assuming the County is named after William Duval, who helped force relocation of the Seminoles and blamed their resistance on black members of the tribe, shouldn’t the school board change its name too?

[NewHampshireDuo]

I’d bet you that the African King owned black slaves too.

Probably ate a few also. (I'm sorry, that was bad.)

[Shadowstrike]

Yeah, but tell us how you really feel.

I’m kidding.

[ViLaLuz]

The African king sold his people to slave traders, who sold them on the auction block in New Orleans.

[trebb]

They named the school after an African king. Entirely possible the African king owned slaves which would be too funny.

I heard they named it Barry Getz High...

[MaxMax]

Is there an African king who never killed countrymen for power? To hell with Africa!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, I hear you. But, to the blacks who run New Orleans schools, it was more important to help the self-esteem of black students, by stripping the name of George Washington off the school.

Never mind that New Orleans schools have some of the worst results in the nation. It’s more important to them to promote mother Africa, and get those kids to focus only on the color of their skin. Nor does anything matter about the true history of this African king. They don’t care.

Personally, I am frustrated that they reduce one of our founding fathers attributes to the fact that he owned slaves, and that everything else about his life is worthless due to that fact. But that’s the liberal politically correct world we live in.