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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most compelling voice I've heard yet is this one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20S98ndwkA  at 7:25  Mr. Nicholas Hogan testifies - the only "person of color" to address the Board.  I favored changing the name with the support of the community.  Looks like it will be changed but there's a lot to learn from how this process has been conducted and to consider the views of both "sides" to this controversy.  You should watch this clip. The contrast with the outraged white woman who follows and claims to speak for the dis-empowered, is priceless, and gives a new meaning to "white privilege".   There's also something to learn about how some of our representatives disrespect their constituents.  Read the FOIA materials to see how Sandy Evans and Pat Hynes conducted the public's business.  Hopefully, the rest of this process is conducted respectfully and a modus vivendi is achieved and we can get back to supporting our HS with some pride.  [/quote]

Nick Hogan has not been the only black or other minority to address the School Board, including that evening.  Did you ignore Ken Longmyer's testimony?  In prior meetings, other minority students, parents, and community members imploring the Board to change the name addressed the School Board.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're just unaware of the other testimony over the past two years, but this type of misstatement is fairly blatant and characteristic of the false statements by "anti-changers."  For example, one woman testified last week that Stuart has had 100,000 graduates over its history (most, she claimed, deeply invested in the old name).  That comes out to over 1750 seniors every year.  Stuart typically has had graduating classes of about 400.  [/quote]

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