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Oregon district to drop ‘Lynch’ from school names due to ‘racial implications’
The College Fix ^ | July 31, 2017 | by DAVE HUBER

Posted on 07/31/2017 1:13:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Remember two and a half years ago when students at a small Pennsylvania college demanded the name “Lynch” be removed from a campus building … because of its racial connotations?

An Oregon school district is following their example.

The Centennial School District in southeast Portland will be excising “Lynch” from three schools before the beginning of this school year: Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood, and Lynch View elementary schools.

The schools were named for the family which originally had donated land for the schools over a century ago, but Superintendent Paul Coakley says “many newer families coming into the district associate the name with America’s violent racial history.”

“There were an increasing amount of questions and some complaints from families of color around the name,” Coakley said. Although “there is no connection between the Lynch family and the practice associated with the term,” he said the name has still “been a disruption for some students.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: bluezones; language; lynch; namesake; sjw
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To: robroys woman

I’m even worse. I have a black SUV and two black and white dogs. The funny thing is it’s hard to get an all black dog, since most have a few white hairs. QUICK!! send the van from the reeducation camp.


21 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:04 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: PGR88

And that was verrry funny


22 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:07 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” Although “there is no connection between the Lynch family and the practice associated with the term,” he said the name has still “been a disruption for some students.”


It’s quite apparent that these kids are not the cream-of-the-crop.

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23 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:35 PM PDT by Mears
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To: SERKIT

Surprised she didn’t change her name.


24 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We live in the age of stupid. :-/


25 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:45 PM PDT by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Oregon district to drop ‘Lynch’ from school names due to ‘racial implications’”

They also need to drop the terms black board, white board, brown bag lunch, yellow school bus, class and intelligence.

Motherf*cker and other such terms are still accepted and encouraged.


26 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:55 PM PDT by detective
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Drag = Tranny too


27 posted on 07/31/2017 1:27:56 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yet there’s a new hit tv show out called “The Mick”

at least there’s no double standards.


28 posted on 07/31/2017 1:28:27 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...
Re: Oregon district to drop ‘Lynch’ from school names due to ‘racial implications’

What'c you say?

http://dailysignal.com/wp-content/uploads/epalive430023.jpg

29 posted on 07/31/2017 1:29:26 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: CGASMIA68
The other drag racing


30 posted on 07/31/2017 1:32:29 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Heck to talk of Drag Races, use of the word “drag” could be offensive to the homosexual/cross dresser/LGBT community. So drag race has to go.

THE RETURN OF 1984 !!!

American leftists are knocking down statues and monuments faster than the Taliban.

And they are banning words faster than Orwell's 'Big Brother' but for the same reason.

"The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.
It will render dissent literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

-- George Orwell; 1984


31 posted on 07/31/2017 1:36:14 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, if Loretta Lynch runs for President with Eric Holder for VP, does that mean that Lynch Holder bumper stickers won’t be allowed?


32 posted on 07/31/2017 1:37:49 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: ealgeone

OMG! A word! It’s a word! Must. Stop. Word.

*Melting*

Idjiots.....

Loretta is unavailable for comment.


33 posted on 07/31/2017 1:38:43 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: libstripper

I have a black cat and one that is B&W. Am I safe?


34 posted on 07/31/2017 1:40:42 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

I got news for you buddy, “drag” is what offended me! ;P


35 posted on 07/31/2017 1:41:19 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Because Marshawn retired from the Seahawks and signed with the Raiders? That's harsh.
36 posted on 07/31/2017 1:43:00 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: CGASMIA68
Drag = Tranny too

Can't call transmissions "trannies" anymore - as in "Yep, she's got her a 4-speed trannie with a Hurst shifter."

Can't refer to your car (or boat) a "she" or "her" anymore either.

And "gear box" is definitely out for obvious reasons!

And don't dare call differentials "rear ends".


37 posted on 07/31/2017 1:55:48 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Before now, the only place I ever heard the word “lynch”, was in the cowboy movies, and the “lynch-’ees” were always ‘White’.


38 posted on 07/31/2017 1:58:56 PM PDT by FrankR
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other news, Alexa will no longer be able to mention the city Lynchburg. :-)


39 posted on 07/31/2017 2:01:13 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Real nice way to treat the family that donated the school land. Pathetic lack of education effort for the kids rather than explain what some good people did for them.


40 posted on 07/31/2017 2:03:15 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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