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Berkeley school board votes to strip LeConte’s name from elementary school
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 17, 2017 | Jill Tucker and Annie Ma

Posted on 11/17/2017 5:43:45 PM PST by artichokegrower

For decades, a Berkeley elementary school has carried the name of a prominent conservationist and co-founder of the Sierra Club. But the 19th century geologist, Joseph LeConte, also was a slave owner and munitions supplier to the Confederacy during the Civil War, and parents wanted his name off their children’s school.

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To: super7man

How did we ever escape Berkeley and end up here?


21 posted on 11/17/2017 7:28:30 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: super7man

“Then moved to Orinda in 1959. “

Are you still there? Montevista?


22 posted on 11/17/2017 9:47:35 PM PST by vette6387
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To: super7man

“How did we ever escape Berkeley and end up here?”

If you live in Orinda, I would not necessarily say you escaped. Our current State Senator, Steve Glazer is a bearded RAT a$$hole who moved to the legislature from being mayor of Orinda. Typical RAT, bald, scraggly beard, round glasses. Stuff a banana in his mouth and you have the picture of a baboon taking a crap.


23 posted on 11/17/2017 9:51:24 PM PST by vette6387
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To: artichokegrower

Then they need to remove Oak Island of the tube, it was owned by a Black former Slave.


24 posted on 11/18/2017 4:28:00 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: vette6387

I grew up in the El Toyonal area. Graduated Miramonte HS, went on the Cal, got a degree in Mechanical Enginneering.
Then escaped to San Jose worked in Silicon Valley for 35 years and did well. Retired to Auburn CA in the heart of the State of Jefferson. Happy up here in the Gold Country, good people, plenty to do, staying fit.


25 posted on 11/18/2017 6:10:52 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: hanamizu

The US government school system is a series of propaganda morality plays for morons.


26 posted on 11/18/2017 7:04:48 AM PST by samtheman (Where is the Clinton Dossier that is the product of Trump/Russian collusion?)
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