Perspective | Debates over school names won’t be history anytime soon — and shouldn’t be

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Perspective: Debates over school names won’t be history anytime soon — and shouldn’t be

By Jay Mathews Jay Mathews Education writer and columnist Email Bio Columnist April 12 at 12:00 PM I thought, wrongly, that the national argument over changing school names was over. We Americans have never been good at history. How many of us really care about a few long-dead white guys’ bad thoughts and deeds?

“Right now we — and I mean liberals and progressives — have divided up white famous people into several naming buckets,” Hawkins told me. “Keep in mind all of these white people, technically, are racist. Period. President Wilson was a segregationist, but President George Washington owned more than 100 slaves.”

White Confederates Bucket: “No one even thinks twice about these folks. By joining the Confederacy, they automatically labeled themselves racist.”

 

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AND THEY'LL NEVER FIND HIM

Slavery, Pocohontas ewarren , CreepyJoe groping kids in public, Bernie wanting to take all your money (he's done so well in life himself I'm sure he won't mispend it), KamalaHarris has a Butina Sugar-Daddy Russian problem no one talks about. I think I'll vote Trump thanks!

The pro slavery party, the Democrats should be disbanded too, right?

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