Posted on 12/07/2013 5:09:35 PM PST by EinNYC
The Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice will open its doors next September. It will be located at Brooklyn's Boys and Girls High School, where Mandela visited in 1990.
One day after the death of South African icon Nelson Mandela, Mayor Bloomberg announced a new high school will be named for the famed apartheid fighter, it will open on the campus Mandela visited in 1990.
The Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice will debut in September 2014 at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, where cheering throngs met the newly freed Mandela in 1990 and gave him a hero's welcome in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
"Equal opportunity and access to education were among the many things Nelson Mandela spent his life fighting for," Bloomberg said Friday.
"President Mandela once said 'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.' Renaming the campus he visited shortly after his release from prison, will forever serve as a reminder that our mandate as public servants is to provide our children with the weapons they need for a successful future and help us build a city of inclusion," he said.
Mandela visited the school as part of whirlwind trip to New York City, where thousands cheered his public appearances. The anti-apartheid leader had recently been freed from a South African prison after serving 27 years. "Nelson Mandela visited this building not long after he was released from prison, and we want to ensure that the special bond between the students and this legendary figure will live forever," said Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.
"Every time they enter and exit its doors, our students at this new school will be reminded of the values he personified," Walcott said.
Commies across the world are laughing and high-fiving as we type.
Sick socialist murdering bastard gets a school named after him. Bet it’ll be on MLK Boulevard (ie the dangerous part of town).
When the world celebrates you you better look out because whatever you’re doing that the world likes, is very, very wrong.
Yep.
They will be totally useless slugs for their entire lives. There will be no education process in existence that will free them of that indoctrination.
Lost forever.
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No wonder minorities keep falling behind and will eventually end up escalating a race war which will put them solidly into a controlled under class status not seen since pre-Selma.
Will the school teach how to throw a tire around someone’s neck and set it and the victim on fire?
How about shop class teaching how to make a pipe bomb?
First of many, no doubt.
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