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CPS to Rename Three Schools Including One Named for Christopher Columbus
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 19, 2024

Posted on 06/20/2024 11:28:55 AM PDT by PBRCat

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Chicago Public School students, Johnny and Janie, cannot read, write, or perform basic arithmetic at grade level, so let's erase American history too!

To be eliminated are schools named for Christopher Columbus, Melville Fuller (former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from Chicago) and President James Monroe.

Columbus is to be renamed for Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Fuller for an obscure civil rights activist, and Monrow for the immediate neighborhood.

1 posted on 06/20/2024 11:28:55 AM PDT by PBRCat
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Maybe they could ask Liberia to rename it’s capital, as it was named after James Monroe as well.


2 posted on 06/20/2024 11:32:37 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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Name ‘em after Biden. It fits.


3 posted on 06/20/2024 11:34:15 AM PDT by bigbob
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Three to be renamed.

Huey P. Newton School of Black Rage πŸ«πŸ™‹πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈπŸ’£πŸ”₯

Overcoming Toxic Masculinity Educational Center πŸ«πŸ™‹πŸΏβ€β™€οΈπŸ’£πŸ”₯

Power To The People Overthrow America School 🏫πŸ’ͺπŸΏπŸ’£πŸ”₯


4 posted on 06/20/2024 11:35:42 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Third world cities honor crazy leftists—all over the world.


5 posted on 06/20/2024 11:36:39 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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Liberals: “Good. If you teach them to read, write, and do arithmetic, they might figure out how to escape our plantation. If you teach them history, they might see that things may change and improve over time. So let’s not teach them any of this, so they will remain on the bottom rung of the economic and social ladder forever! Oh, yes, and they will vote for us forever.”


6 posted on 06/20/2024 11:36:48 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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NO name changes!

Give the schools competent teachers instead!!


7 posted on 06/20/2024 11:37:36 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Old Stan Freberg comedy album skit ended with the “Indians” saying they were the ones who discovered the Christopher Columbus settlers arriving at the beach and then made a deal to sell the land.

“Let me go to the bank and get the money.”

“You can’t. Banks are closed. Columbus Day.”


8 posted on 06/20/2024 11:40:19 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Christopher Columbus - eff Italians

Melville Fuller - eff people from Chicago that made something of themselves, unless they’re politically correct. Ginsburg was from New York City, from effing Chicago.

Monroe - as president, Monroe signed the Compromise of 1820 that banned slavery north of Missouri. Possibly, that was the reason a school in Chicago was named for this person from Virginia. But, banning slavery in certain territories wasn’t good enough for Chicago. Chicago demands reparations.

We need to seceded from Chicago and build a big beautiful wall around it.


9 posted on 06/20/2024 11:41:35 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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Columbus is probably routinely slandered in the school formerly bearing his name.

The first natives he encountered were fleeing slaves.


10 posted on 06/20/2024 11:43:52 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Hey stupid people. Countries, states and cities that don’t learn from the mistakes made in history are doomed to repeat them over and over again.


11 posted on 06/20/2024 11:49:23 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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If we’re going to rename schools named after Columbus, I’m waiting for Columbia University in New York to be renamed as well.


12 posted on 06/20/2024 12:08:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Columbus is probably routinely slandered in the school formerly bearing his name.

The first natives he encountered were fleeing slaves that he assisted.


13 posted on 06/20/2024 12:09:49 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Name one Mau Mau High.

Another: George Floyd Junior High.


14 posted on 06/20/2024 12:23:57 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rlush!)
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Monroe was a supporter of colonization of former slaves in Africa--the capital of Liberia is named for him (Monrovia).

Isn't there a college in Chicago named in honor of Malcolm X, who had no ties to Chicago as far as I know (born in Nebraska, grew up in Michigan, later lived in Boston and New York City)?

15 posted on 06/20/2024 12:56:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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A community college that was plagued by scandals. It had to be rebuilt after forty years of service as it was trashed.


16 posted on 06/20/2024 1:04:36 PM PDT by PBRCat
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Names like 'Pervert High' and 'Commie Hellhole' would be more honest. Why not? How about 'Drag Quessn' elementary' school?

Or better: 'We Support Killing Jews & High Five Hamas' Middle School?
"Dependent/Democrat Blacks Who Lose' would be a nice name for a Junior College that graduates kids who can't pay their student loans back because their education isn't worth crap... that might be nice name.

17 posted on 06/20/2024 1:07:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (WOKE DEI hires - an easy way to place hard core commies and sexual weirdos in top corporate spots.s)
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Meanwhile, anyone wondering what the YWCA is up to these days?

https://greenwichfreepress.com/around-town/ywca-greenwich-to-host-young-womens-initiative-217966/


18 posted on 06/20/2024 1:27:37 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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....”..Columbia: poetic name for United States of America, earlier for the British colonies there, 1730s, also the nation’s female personification, from name of Christopher Columbus (also see Colombia) with Latin “country” ending -ia.. A popular name for places and institutions in the U.S. in the post-Revolutionary years....”

yes, indeed....how about re-naming our nation’s capital...? District of Columbia...?? can’t have that, can we....?


19 posted on 06/20/2024 2:32:20 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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Three Chicago public schools are being renamed in the latest changes aimed at getting rid of racist or otherwise problematic [white] namesakes.

Fixed.

20 posted on 06/20/2024 4:02:01 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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