In his retirement, Minnie Minoso worked as a greeter outside of various Chicago taverns before ball games.
Cubs fans outraged.
So they erased a “good” general.
I imagine if McClellan was alive, he really wouldn’t GAS about a school full of empty skulls trying to figure out whether they are boys or girls being named after him. One of the greatest cavalry saddles that saved a lot of Cavalry horses is named after him. Minnie can have the Chicago school.
This renaming tells you all you need to know about Chicago's public schools and why things will probably never improve in that city.
Well, to be fair McClellan wasn’t a very good general. Yes, he won the Battle of Antietam. But it was a meat grinder, a bloody mess. And he failed to pursue Lee’s retreating army.
Anyway, here’s what really bothers me: “Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justice, formerly Caldwell Academy of Math & Science…”
Going from a math and science academy to one for social justice.
Those poor kids will be indoctrinated just like the Hitler Youth was.
Daisy Bates Academy of Social Justice...................and future unemployed Democrats...........
Is the opium epidemic causing the jackasses living in this country to name every damn thing after 12 percent of the population? The Caucasian drug addicts need to wake up.
Never heard of that “legend” - but, hey, what’s more important an average baseball player or a general who fought a bloody war?
Obviously the baseball player... if he’s black.
Well that is awful unwhite of them.
Cool!! Canceling a Yankee General!! Go for it!!
Right, because "social justice" is more important than actually useful life skills like math & science.
Dumbasses. Chicago gets exactly what it deserves, which after my travels over the past 9 days is ridicule and scorn.
General George B. McClellan commanded the Army of the Potomac. His victory at the Battle of Antietam provided Abraham Lincoln with the opportunity to release the Emancipation Proclamation. McClellan was the Democrat presidential nominee in 1864. Later, he was the governor of New Jersey.
In his retirement, Minnie Minoso worked as a greeter outside of various Chicago taverns before ball games.
greeter outside of various Chicago taverns before ball games.
Well, with the southside locals in Chicongo, that hits the mark for sure.
Minnie Minoso and Luis Aparecio were the first two Latin Americans to play the game. They both came from Cuba back before it fell to Castro, who by the way, wanted to be a NY Yankee in his youth. After Cuba fell, many players started to come in from Dominican Republic.
As far as McClellan goes, he was a crappy general. Lincoln fired him for retreating after threatening Richmond, and rehired him 3 months later, right before Antietam, which was considered a draw, although Lee and the Rebels retreated back across the Potomac. Lincoln then fired McClellan again, and hired Burnside, who sucked as much as McClellan and got thousands of Union kids killed trying to breech Fredericksburg 3 months later.
McClellan then ran against Lincoln in 1864 as the “Peace Candidate” but was trounced after a string of resounding Union victories in Tennessee, the Shenandoah Valley, and with Richmond and Petersburg under seize, which showed that the war was wrapping up.
McClellan was an ass.
Born and raised in Chicago, and a Cubs fan with 2 Sox fans as best friends, I never heard anybody call Minnie Minoso or anybody else Mr. White Sox.
Mr. Cub was Ernie Banks. Sounds like cultural appropriation by somebody filling space in a media outlet.