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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In America we do not name things after living people.

They need to fix that.

15 posted on 06/19/2018 6:23:24 AM PDT by null and void (Have the courage to shine the light of reason in a dark world)

To: null and void

>>In America we do not name things after living people.

They need to fix that.<<

My first Internet LOL of the day! :)

29 posted on 06/19/2018 6:36:28 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))

To: null and void

No wait, there is always hope.

35 posted on 06/19/2018 6:39:50 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")

To: null and void

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?

69 posted on 06/19/2018 5:00:06 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus

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