But, in an American way, kind of close.
Activists protest renaming Chicago school after ‘oppressor’ Barack Obama
From Legal Insurrection
Immigration activists are objecting to renaming a Chicago school
after Barack Obama.
“I will not be part of
renaming a school after someone who did not and does not represent the
undocumented community,” said District 60 school board member Edgar
Castellanos, who says he came to the U.S. as an undocumented child, according
to ABC 7 Chicago.
Waukegan’s Board of
Education met Tuesday evening to debate renaming Thomas Jefferson Middle School
and Daniel Webster Middle School, after it was decided the historical figures
either owned slaves or supported slavery.
One of the top contenders
for Thomas Jefferson Middle School’s new name is that of the first Black
president, Barack Obama, and former First Lady Michelle. But that name is
drawing the ire of immigration activists and some in the Latino community.
Activists staged a protest outside the board meeting Tuesday.
We don’t use the tactics of
Red China’s Cultural Revolution. Not yet, anyway. Some common sense remains to
keep political events from becoming more than standard protest violence. Public
schools and colleges take the place of re-education camps. But it is refreshing
to see one group of Progressives take on another group of Progressives and in
the taking on show the degree of racial and cultural conflict.
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