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 Americas 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.
Ironic that Lynch played at Seattle & now Oakland...the two closest NFL teams to Oregon.
Lynch is a significant Melungeon surname
oregon discriminates against Melungeons
Will loretta be forced to change her last name too?
Whats this frigen world Comming to. !?!
Whoops, sorry about that “C” word in there.
In all seriousness this may be the most retarded thing I’ve heard all week.
Someone go back in time and warn the Lynch family that their name is racist.
-PJ
NO! The van is coming for you. Better check the “black” cat. It might have one or two white hairs.
Just checked......I’m good. The little kitty has a single white hair.
Whew!!
LOL! You’ve proven my point: it’s very hard to find an all black dog or cat. Most have at least a few white hairs. The first dog I adopted after I became an independent adult was half black Lab and half Irish Setter. He came the closest to all black, with only about a dozen white chest hairs. Thereafter, they’ve all been mostly black, with the only pure bred “black” Lab having a white spot on his chest the size of a man’s hand. Right now my closest to all black is a black and white mantled Great Dane with long, soft, floppy, black uncropped ears. With his huge white feet, white chest, and white snoot he looks like a 122 lb. Beagle. He’s also a totally corrupt couch potato, having taken complete control of the only couch in the house.
All house animals take over the furniture. It’s in their DNA or something! Lol
So true. My other dog, a 90 lb. AST/retriever cross, has taken over at least half of my bed. We negotiate the split every night. He’s also black and white. He was supposed to be half Great Dane and half black Lab.
That’s funny!
My kitteh is maybe 15 lb. we negotiate the split in my bed, too. Don’t know how she does it but she ends up with the biggest spot! Lol!
I love her dearly but wish I could reclaim just a little more of the bed!
The problem with those big guys is they all seem to think they’re lapdogs!
No sense of their size!
Do you realize we’ve created a disgraceful spectacle here, hijacking a respectable political discussion and diverting it to corrupt house animals.
Oregon ping
That was the name of my Kindergarten teacher. Today, with that name, the little brainwashed Black kids would claim they’re being microaggressed. It’s a sick society today, and it’s getting sicker.
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