Diogenes’MiddleFinger: Best-selling historian David Barton is blasting a proposal by the head of the San Francisco Board of Education which would ban schools from being named after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers and American leaders who owned slaves.
Barton, author of “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson,” called it a “misguided effort based on bad history.” Barton pointed out African-American leaders of the past often praised both Presidents Washington and Jefferson, who both recognized human slavery was an evil needing to be dealt with, as champions of the beginning civil rights for blacks.
God Damn this pisses me off. Today was the first time I pulled over the Thunder Bolt Grease slapper and frantically tried to call Rush. I’ll para phrase. “Even though I disagree the flag gives these people the right to take a knee durring the National Anthem. And I guess the Libs can try and make their changes that are detrimental to the United States”.
Fuck Rush, ever heard of the Constitution? Just wondering?
Washington, Washington, Madison, Madison, eat it leftists.September 12-17 is Constitution Week. The names will, AND SHALL ALWAYS, be at the top of choices. Revisionists should be reeducated.
How about they start with this guy?
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/jul/29/tacoman-wants-spokanes-wilson-elementary-renamed/
Be sure to read the comments. You may recognize one of the guys posting.
JDHasty SpikeGlassFusion • a year ago
I am well aware of that history, but chose to let Woodrow Wilson’s record stand on it’s own. Really, in all honesty, if his record is not enough on it’s own to compel action – what would?
Ignorance may have been an excuse, but at the point that I brought Wilson’s record on race and segregation to the attention of the people we have trusted to be stewards of the Tacoma and Spokane School Districts any claim of lack of knowledge on their part has, from that point on, been too convenient. It is what is referred to as “willful ignorance.”
Willful ignorance excuses nothing and actually implicates those who would seek refuge therein with a degree of sympathy for Wilson’s racist and segregationist policies. Does it not? And if not, why not? If after learning about what Wilson’s Administration was responsible for on this front one comes away believing that having his name on a public school building is still acceptable… who, prey tell, would be disqualified by virtue of their actions from being so honored?
My inclination is that Wilson’s standing as a progressive movement icon is what insulates him from any criticism from the Tacoma/Pierce County political machine (which included the school board). That being said, this is not about what the makeup of the school board or the makeup of the political power structure is in Tacoma and Pierce County, it is about doing what is right and to retain this man’s name in a place of honor on any public school building is flat out demeaning to black students who attend school therein and an insult to their families.
And here is another snippet:
JDHasty • a year ago
“Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”–Woodrow Wilson
OK, Dan Hasty here. If you all want to know how I learned of Wilson’s despicable legacy I was perusing a selection of biographies and came across this book
http://www.amazon.com/The-Guar…
The Guardian of Boston: William Monroe Trotter. Reading that book and further independent research into Woodrow Wilson’s Administration, particularly with regard to resegregating what had been a desegregated federal Civil Service and US Military made me sick. I live right down the street from Woodrow Wilson High School and hundreds of black high school students must sit in a building named in honor of this man if they wish to take advantage of their right to public education. This is not just wrong, it is obscene.
Educate yourself and if you don’t agree with me that this man’s name has no business anywhere near a place of honor in public education you are certainly entitled to your opinion. But you and I will never agree on that.
While president, he made sure to avoid admitting black students to Princeton’s undergraduate program. When a black man from South Carolina wrote of his desire to attend Princeton, Wilson wrote back and “politely” informed him that blacks were not welcome at his school, though also suggesting that he apply to Princeton’s Theological Seminary, an institution separate from the main university.
In his writings, Wilson eulogized the antebellum South and lamented the period of reconstruction that followed the Civil War. To quote Wilson himself on this subject, “self-preservation [forced whites] to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes.”
And here is another one:
JDHasty Larry Cebula • a year ago
Larry,
The objection I have to that is that people want to lump Wilson in with slave holders among the founding fathers of this country, but they were truly a product of the culture they lived in. Whereas Wilson’s resegregationist ambitions were NOT the product of his time. For ~50 post Civil War years the US Military had been desegregated as had the federal civil service.
Wilson made it his Administration’s mission to resegregate these institutions. Prior to Wilson hiring and promotion was to be merit based and to exclude race as a consideration.
What Wilson inherited when he took office was not perfect, but it had been steadily getting better. Wilson stopped that trend cold and by the time he left office had effectively integrated Jim Crow into the federal civil service. It was so bad that black employees were hidden behind screens after the Wilson Administration policies were implemented.
Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School, sadly succumbed to Political Correctness in the 70’s.
RIP Roosevelt, you were ahead of your time.
Well done, J.D.! Didn’t know you were a celebrity!
Note to Jackass Dumbass Hasty: Woodrow Wilson was NOT one of the Founders … jus’ sayin’
Snoop Dogg high school. Debbie W Shultz elementary. The list is long and damning.
Note to Woodrow Wilson fan ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ: No shit sherlock
The smartest thing we ever did as a nation was expel the loyalists after the revolution.
The dumbest thing we ever did as a nation was fail to repeat the exercise every ten years or so.
Today’s left are, in fact, very much like the loyalists, they don’t want the individual to think, or be responsible. They want to anoint monarchs above the law to rule over them, and everyone else.
Michael Brown Junior High School.
Trayvon Martin Elementary School.
I hear the cafeteria food at Michelle Obama High School really sucks!