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  • San Francisco’s school renaming plan rife with historical errors: report

    01/31/2021 10:31:59 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 30 Jan 2021 | Dana Kennedy
    The San Francisco school board is accused of basing its decision to strip the historical names of 44 public schools off of "casual Google searches". ...The report links directly to the Zoom meetings of the renaming committee, and to its spreadsheet, where the Wikipedia entries justifying the committee’s actions are cited. ...James Lick, the wealthiest man in California when he died in 1876, got the boot because the committee disliked his funding of a sculpture depicting a prostrate Indian at the feet of white men. Nobody apparently read the article, however, because it clearly noted that Lick underwrote the sculpture...