Posted on 07/06/2015 7:41:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
Civil Rights Group To Petition Renaming Of Robert E. Lee Elementary In Long Beach
RUBEN VIVES July 6, 2015
A civil rights group plans to deliver a petition to Long Beach school district officials Monday afternoon demanding that an elementary school named after Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army, be changed.
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"The petition is endorsed by many local civil rights leaders and is signed by dozens of concerned citizens," said Pedro Baez, political director of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.
Explore Long Beach news, food, events and more Explore Long Beach news, food, events and more The request comes a week after the civil rights group launched an online campaign to pressure officials to change the name of the Long Beach school.
The school, along with another in San Diego, are the latest targets of a nationwide movement to remove symbols of the Confederacy from public facilities.
The movement comes in the wake of the fatal mass shooting of nine black men and women worshipping last month at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
cComments And yet nobody bats an eye when Salinas names an elementary school after Mexican bandit (i.e. murderer) Tiburcio Vásquez. Consistent with the same progressive garbage that allowed for last week's tragedy on Pier 14 in San Francisco. GIANTSHARKIE AT 7:06 PM JULY 06, 2015 ADD A COMMENTSEE ALL COMMENTS 18
Photos of the suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof — who authorities believe wanted to start a race war — show him posing with the battle flag of the Confederacy
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Che is the patron saint of the useful idiot. Viva Che!
They’ll probably want to name it after some treasonous, leftwing DemocRAT bass turd.
“I went to Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach.”
Same here. Early sixties.
I note you are in MO. My family came from Hannibal to Long Beach in the thirties. Wife and I left Long Beach back in ‘87 after a lifetime there.
Riverside is OK. Much better than Long Beach other than we miss the ocean.
They’re not no civil rights group. They’re subversives.
Wooooo!
Woodrow Wilson = Democrat racist
If they can jettison the name Robert E Lee,
a figure of the 19th Century then Woody definitely
has to go as well. Furthermore, FDR, the numerous uno
Rat hero refused to sign an anti lynching law in the
1930s. See ya ‘round Franky.
I’ll see your RE Lee, and raise you a Malcom Shabazz.
Just name it Karl Marx Reeducation School and get it over with.
This Country obviously has too much time on its hands.
There is a reason they call Liberals the Perpetually Offended. They will never stop, just like the Terminator.
Or, they could name it Isaac Huey Newton High
after a scientist and a Black Panther.
Clowns won’t even catch on.
a school in LA? Named Robert E Lee? They don’t deserve to have a school with that name in LA anyway. To change the name is no loss
General Lee was known historically as an honorable gentleman and brilliant American soldier. He is therefore unlikely to have anything in common with those currently trying to disown him. Comrade dictator obama is probably better suited to the unethical crowd.
Its California. Do you really need to ask that question!
This is not slavery related, but as a Caucasian-American, I am offended by the name of the Presidential residence.
I remember reading about how people suddenly became “unpersons” in the late Soviet Union. I’m beginning to understand how all of that works now.
Check and see if any of your photos have been altered.
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