Posted on 07/22/2017 9:15:45 AM PDT by EveningStar
The national movement to change racially offensive names of buildings, sports teams and landmarks will soon touch a group of schools in southeast Portland. Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood and Lynch View elementary schools will shed their "Lynch" before the upcoming school year in response to growing concern about the word's racial connotations.
The schools, part of the Centennial School District, were named for the Lynch family, which donated land over a century ago to build the first of the schools. But Centennial Superintendent Paul Coakley says many newer families coming into the district associate the name with America's violent racial history.
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Either lynch or linch is acceptable.
https://www.grainger.com/category/lynch-pins/pins/fasteners/ecatalog/N-8m3
I hope the Lynch family descendants sue for compensation of the current value of the land or demand it be returned.
Oregon by law prohibited blacks to live in the state until the end of the 19th century I believe, maybe later.
They are incapable of governing themselves. In fact, they should be declared legally incompetent--for in fact, they are exactly that.
Oh, please if it’s good enough for Loretta ...
Oh, please if it’s good enough for Loretta ...
We’re already on that road... there’s a lot of idiots out there.
They must be really scared of having had a black attorney general named Lynch and wondered why bh0 would have appointed a person with such a ‘racist’ name.
And these newer families are so dull, or mentally inflexible that they can't process words that sound alike, but have different meanings.
The many homophones in the English language must drive them batty.
Time for Loretta Lynch to change her name. She is racist.
I guess lesbian Jane Lynch’s career is now over.
Schools are racist,too. Imagine, having to work hard to obtain an education and all.
Lynch derives from the name and is applied strictly ignorance. Linch is the same derivation as link and is the word. Lynch is “acceptable” by ignorant adoption.
“Everything within 40 miles of the west coast, needs to fall off into the ocean! And, take its residents with it!”
What a asinine statement! I guess from your perspective, life-long conservatives like my wife and me who live in your “zone of destruction” are just going to have to be “collateral damage,” is that right you bunghole? I guess you prove the notion that not all folks here on FR have IQ’s above 100! Road Warrior? Road Kill is more like it! GFY!
Well, lah de dah. I’ll remain ignorant and spell it lynch as I always have.
That is a public school way.
they’re going to be really conflicted if a school gets named after Loretta Lynch
Oh the horrors of PC language /s
I hope the Lynch family sues to get it's land back.
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