Posted on 12/30/2020 10:37:01 PM PST by PBRCat
John Marshall Metropolitan High School is a West Side institution.
One of the city’s oldest public high schools — once heavily Jewish and for decades home to a nearly all-Black student body — it boasts fiercely proud alumni and a reputation for powerhouse athletics.
It’s named for the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, widely regarded as the most influential leader of the nation’s highest court, honored with his face on postage stamps and his name on law schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
Marshall also was a slaveholder his entire adult life, with at least 200 Black slaves on his Virginia plantations.
That part of Marshall’s history didn’t keep an all-white Chicago Board of Education from naming the school on West Adams Street in East Garfield Park for him when it opened 125 years ago.
Across the city, at least 30 public schools are named for people who owned or traded enslaved Black or indigenous people, according to a Chicago Sun-Times review of every public school name in Chicago.
Some, like Marshall, were Southern plantation owners, among them Presidents George Washington and James Madison.
Others, perhaps surprisingly to some, were Northerners — like John Hancock, William Penn and Alexander Hamilton.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Others historical figures objected to include Washington, Franklin, Henry, Madison, Jackson, Clay, Monroe, Columbus, Poe and so many others.
Maybe the simplest solution is to drop all school names and identify public schools by numbers like New York City.
Johnny cannot read or write because the burden of the school name is too much for him. Of course, Johnny didn't know who his school was named for until a Social Justice Warrior told him.
Number them dumbasses. CPS 1, CPS 2, CPS 3 etc, etc. Not that hard. Dumbasses!
I certainly hope to see the name “Pregnita Brothella High School” in Chicago in the near future.
They should keep the names and use them as learning opportunities—teach American history, culture, and all. Understand the historic context of these folks. Honor their good, recognize where we are today without judging them out of historic context.
Don’t worry. “Johnny and LaKinisha can’t won’t be able to read or write even when they change their schools names”.
A school’s name doesn’t educate you. It is good, qualified teachers and excellent text books which do that.
Not the “Chicago Way” or DC Way, of NY City Way, etc.
Blacks are allowing black racists/reparationists and extortionists like Sharpton to destroy any hope for young black students to advance in both knowledge and life skills by keeping up their extortion demands for money, name changes, semi-literate teachers (white and black), more protests time than classroom time, and their march for authoritarian control of the schools/boards/textbooks/teachers and total curriculums, all anti-American, increasingly anti-white, anti-Jewish, anti-Asian, and anti-Free Speech.
“Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
CHYtown? Burn them down. Burn all White Castles to the ground. White snow on the ground here in SE Michigan...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
It has been reported that Kamala the ho’s grand parents were slave owners, what say you Chicago
Likely the more distant ancestors.
Her Jamaican father readily admits to that.
So were some ancestors of Obama.
An a lot of others.
Of course. It will never stop until it actually meets resistance.
“A school’s name doesn’t educate you. It is good, qualified teachers and excellent text books which do that.”
That isn’t true. The main problem in education, in any culture with the means to provide the means (little joke there), is not that of providing all that, but of getting students to use it. And it really doesnt take much to provide all the needful things. Lots of much poorer countries do it.
“You can bring a horse to water but you can’t make him drink” sums it up. And these kids are simply not drinking. And no-one has figured out how to fix that, in 70+ years of massive attempts to do it, trying everything conceivable.
This has been argued out and tested in every way. There are no “but if we just did this”, because whatever it is, I assure you it has been tried. Nobody now has any worthwhile insight because, yes, and yes, and yes, it has been done and done and done.
And this goes the same for all sides of the ideological spectrum. There are no conservative solutions that work, other than marginally. Everything works, diametrically opposite things even, all work, marginally. Whoopee.
The fundamental problem is that for these people, the vast majority, there is no hope at this time. We do not understand the human brain, human consciosness, sufficiently to fix them so as to bring them up to the level of the other residents of the lands they occupy.
So all sorts of pathetic futile thrashing can be expected. And of course politicians and other “entrepeneurs” will use this hopeless churn for their benefit. Absurdity on top of tragedy.
Rename a prominent school for George Floyd.
Then watch the fireworks come out when the cop is found innocent!
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