"In a process marked by “ignorance and incompetence,” San Francisco’s school board voted to rename 44 schools, ratifying historical errors and angering parents of “Remote School 1, Remote School 2 and so on,” writes Joe Eskenazi in Mission Local.
- The board, which is in no rush to reopen schools, spent five seconds confirming the cancelation of “Abraham Lincoln.” The Great Emancipator isn’t fit to have a school named after him because he supported the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act, which opened up the West for settlement, which displaced indigenous peoples.
It’s filled with “embarrassing, avoidable and credibility-destroying errors” based on cutting, pasting and then misinterpreting from dubious sources, writes Eskenazi.
- Based on a Top-10 list from the History Channel website, the committee condemned Paul Revere for fighting against the Penobscot Indians. In fact, he fought the British (not very well) at Penobscot Bay, named after the Indians, who were not involved.
- James Russell Lowell, a poet, diplomat and abolitionist, “did not want Black people to vote,” a committee member said. Not true, states a biography. Also, Lowell High was named for the Massachusetts town, not the man.
- The estate of James Lick funded the “Early Days” statue, much disliked by Native Americans, 18 years after the millionaire’s death. It was removed in 2018. Philanthropist James Lick was blamed for funding an offensive sculpture showing an Indian at the feet of white men. Nobody noticed that Lick died 18 years earlier. His estate funded the sculpture...Read all.
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