Proud of what exactly?
Here a conservationist and Sierra Club founder is too much, but I guess Margaret Sanger and Franklin D. Roosevelt (Japanese internment) still get high marks for now.
Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is named after him. They better not mess with that.
"We're sorry if you got that impression."
... Gosh, I thought that was a famous SNL line, but I can't scare it up with a Google search. Maybe we really are whitewashing the past!
I am a proud graduate of Columbus Elementary School, but I am even prouder of the fact that the school is now named after Rosa Parks
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I have no problem naming schools after Rosa Parks, but in terms of historical consequence, Rosa might be 1/100 as important as Chris.
When teaching world history to jr high students I would bring up Martin Luther, kids would ask if I meant Martin Luther King. Now it’s understandable seeing MLK has a holiday and all, but they were shocked when I told them that Luther changed a big part of the world and that in comparison MLK was not such a big deal.
Lot of peaks explored and named by 19th century geologist, Joseph LeConte in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. They going to go after all of them?
Why not name the schools after Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lavrenti Beria, Josef Stalin, or Trofim Lysenko? Walter Ulbricht, Erich Honecker or Markus Wolf?
I went to this school for 1st grade. Guess I’ll have to wipe it off my resume now. LOL.
The city should also be renamed because it was named for George Berkeley, an Irish academic and philosopher who was at one time a slave owner.
I went to LeConte Elementary School in SF. They renamed it several decades ago to some jerk’s name. The school is on Army Street, which they renamed to Cesar Chavez Street. I still call it Army Street. I won’t hold my breath to see them name streets after Donald Trump, they’d rather name them after communists.
Then they need to remove Oak Island of the tube, it was owned by a Black former Slave.