Richmond school drops Confederate name in favor of Barack Obama

CNN ^ | June 19, 2018 | By Madison Park

[Rurudyne]

The stain is fighting for his faction to control the DNC. Or at least that’s my take on many of these Muslim candidates.

[hal ogen]

What LIB idiots, naming their school after the Greatest Fraud and Traitor in US history. Isn’t this child abuse?

[Mastador1]

I’d pull my children, let the school become exactly what the Blacks want............segregated.

[Tommygun99]

As long as we’re talking about naming things after BO. A friend of mine had colon cancer several years ago. As a result he now wears a colostomy bag. The nurse at the hospital informed him that he was supposed to name his colostomy bag and what name would he choose. He said he was going to call him “Barry”. She said why and he said he’s full of $hit! When I see him now I always ask “How’s Barry?”

[gathersnomoss]

Special....

[gathersnomoss]

I can’t wait to see what happens when Donald J Trump High Scool is dedicated.

[CodeJockey]

School Digger has the stat Free/discounted lunch recipients at 96.4%, so I guess the name Barack Obama Elementary is fitting.

[outofsalt]

JEB Stuart HS in Fairfax County became Justice HS.
I graduated from JEB Stuart in ‘77...

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, generally not a wise idea to name something after someone who is still alive...although in the Early Republic lots of towns and counties were named for heroes of the Revolution (Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Rogers Clark, Henry Knox, and many others). More recently, Cincinnati named a street after Pete Rose (before his disgrace)--not smart.

I wonder what some of the unsuccessful suggestions for renaming this school were...Che Guevara? Pol Pot? Karl Marx? Nat Turner? Trayvon Martin?

If a school which has a 95% black student body needs to be named after a black person, there are lots of more suitable people who could have been chosen. Arthur Ashe? Frederick Douglass? Jackie Robinson? Thurgood Marshall? Ralph Bunche?

[x]

... there are lots of more suitable people who could have been chosen.

That's always the case.

Why do we have a hundred schools named after John F. Kennedy?

Because the people who decide these things (and the rest of the public) can only keep a few names in their heads.

[TheNext]

Do it.

Which people knowingly move on to MLK boulevard?

Which people knowingly move to Barack boulevard?