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Posted on 12/22/2020 2:57:03 PM PST by simpson96
PORTLAND, Ore —Wilson High School in Southwest Portland will be renamed after a Black woman who made a historical impact on society.
The board of Portland Public Schools decided to change the school's name in July in response to the racial justice movement that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Built in 1954, the high school was named for former Pres. Woodrow Wilson, whose administration segregated federal offices. Wilson also wrote a book considered sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan.
A committee tasked with renaming Wilson High has come up with five candidates after whom the school could be renamed. The committee is asking for feedback from the community on the candidates, which can be submitted online through Jan. 1, 2021.
Here are the five finalists and information about them from various websites:
Beatrice Morrow Cannady worked as a reporter and editor for the Advocate, an African-American newspaper,(snip)
Mercedes Deiz became the first Black female lawyer in Oregon in 1960. She was also the state's first Black female district court judge and first Black woman to be elected as a county circuit court judge.(snip)
Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist who was born into slavery in New York.(snip)
Ida B. Wells was an early leader of the civil rights movement.(snip)
Harriet Wilson was the first African American person, male or female, to publish a novel in North America. Her novel "Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Mass.
The high school noted in a form on its website, "Choosing to honor Harriet will allow us to reclaim the name Wilson, while at the same time turning its meaning from one of severe racism to one of hope and inclusion."
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That "committee" must be a real pip. I bet all the parents - the taxpayers - had zero say in this. Now it's just "tell us which is your favorite black woman to erase the U.S. President we've crapped all over."
ANGELA DAVIS!!!
TAWANA BRAWLEY HIGH
If you’re not a black homosexual working class woman, you are an oppressor pig and deserve to die.
Whoppie Goldberg High School, the Fighting Wackos
That ok..
I hear “Washington” State is going to get renamed “Denzel Washington”
Isn’t commie cameltoe supposed to be black?
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“The high school noted in a form on its website, “Choosing to honor Harriet will allow us to reclaim the name Wilson...”
Aunt Jemima
Okay, how about the black woman that Trump pardoned? She’d be a potentially good role model for a school name.
stacey abrams
Mae Jamison
Well, if you want to go after REAL racism, Progressive Wilson is a better fit.
Gave us segregation like never before, the income tax, and a completely useless world war.
Candace Owens.
If they run out of actual black women pioneers, they can just name it “Lieutenant Uhura High”.
Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son.
Pretty soon there’ll be a flip and it’ll be all Black privilege.
Nichelle Nichols was a very talented woman.
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