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Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

Let’s start from changing County’s name first. After that, let’s change all school names to PS ES0001, 0002, ..., and MS, 001, 002, HS 01, 02....
it is easier for pupils to learn and reme,berbtheir school names and also help them to learn numbers.
As an immigrant, I cannot remember names well. Numbers are easier.

And they're universal and NOT racist! Not one number has owned slaves!

a win-win

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Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

No. You’re welcome.

Yup. Me neither. Any other questions?

Why not?

Mt Vernon is a museum. I support whatever efforts they’re making to reckon with the full truth of life there.
The Washington Monument honors Washington for being our first President. We honor him because we believe in the ideals and promises the country was founded on even as we face the full truth of our history and the ways we’ve fallen short. I’m certainly willing to hear out arguments for changing how we describe and relate to it I guess.

This notion that oh, if you start to point out and talk about the role that slavery and racism have played in American history you must want to toss the whole project in the bin is so lame.

Quoting a tweet from Adam Serwer:
“it is a testament to black commitment to American values that they have championed them for centuries despite being excluded from them. Equally revealing is the shallow patriotism of those who cannot love their country without blinding themselves to its history.”

If you are a person who thinks anyone is suggesting we “tear down all the statues” to “end racism” you should read the NYTimes magazine this weekend. If you actually read the whole thing, maybe you’ll start to think about it differently.

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Anonymous wrote:Multiple schools named after slave owners . Also the county is named after a slave owner

Or, more accurately: The BoE decided on a broader study to review the history of school facilities’ namesakes. A committee of MCPS staff members, Montgomery County historians and student researchers from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, did the review.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/review-group-says-six-montgomery-county-schools-named-after-slave-owners/

I'm fine with this. Why do you object?

You can postpone your objections to renaming Montgomery County until there's a serious proposal to do so.

Why must we fund a study to do this? Can't they pull together a group of interested parents and staff who want to volunteer. If they just choose numbers, we could have this done in a day. I don't think we should name schools after people at all. Eventually everybody's legacy is questioned by future generations.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

No. You’re welcome.

Yup. Me neither. Any other questions?

Why not?

Because Washington is recognized for more than being a slave owner in his service to our country. People are fallible, even our heroes, and it’s important to recognize that.

This is not “just” an East Coast conversation either. I live in Columbia, MO. We have changed the name of Lee Elementary School because Lee was celebrated for what he did for the South in the Civil War. There has not been one peep about removing the statue of Thomas Jefferson on Mizzou’s campus, because—while he was a slaveowner—Jefferson is being recognized as the drafter of the Declaration of Independence, an inventor, and a person instrumental in the founding of the university: the first one west of the Mississippi.

Anonymous wrote:And Einstein.

https://www.history.com/news/albertin-einstein-racist-xenophobic-views-travel-journal

And Gandhi, and Churchill, and Columbus...everyone but their three Wakanda friends.

Anonymous wrote:They’ll go after Churchill too

Good

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

No. You’re welcome.

Yup. Me neither. Any other questions?

Why not?

Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

Let’s start from changing County’s name first. After that, let’s change all school names to PS ES0001, 0002, ..., and MS, 001, 002, HS 01, 02....
it is easier for pupils to learn and reme,berbtheir school names and also help them to learn numbers.
As an immigrant, I cannot remember names well. Numbers are easier.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

No. You’re welcome.

Yup. Me neither. Any other questions?

Anonymous wrote:So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

No. You’re welcome.

So, serious question...everyone who is advocating for the county to spend money on this...do you also want to change the name of Washington, DC, should we rip down the Washington Monument, should we tear down Mt. Vernon?

Anonymous wrote:Multiple schools named after slave owners . Also the county is named after a slave owner

So that I'm clear: Your definition of conservativism is to honor racists and slave owners? I'm curious: Why do you hate America and all that it stands for?

And Einstein.

https://www.history.com/news/albertin-einstein-racist-xenophobic-views-travel-journal

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Anonymous wrote:I could care less either way.

On tomorrow, you should teach yourself to say “I couldn’t care less.”

What is “on tomorrow” , Mr.Pot?

You are definitely not reading enough threads. What a looser.

Don't forget about Whitman. Following iq quote from his writings.

"As if we had not strained the voting and digestive caliber of American Democracy to the utmost for the last fifty years with the millions of ignorant foreigners, we have now infused a powerful percentage of blacks, with about as much intellect and calibre (in the mass) as so many baboons."