A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him’.
The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.
The district’s renaming committee decided Lincoln is not worthy of keeping his name on Abraham Lincoln High School because ‘the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to [Native Americans].’
‘Abraham Lincoln is not seen as much of a hero at all among many American Indian Nations and Native peoples of the United States, as the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to them,’ the committee meeting notes state.
Read more at Daily Mail.
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I propose we rename San Francisco to West Toeiva.
In San Francisco, I would have thought that BLM would be angry because Lincoln didn’t come out in support of blacks transgendered.
“But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
what a twist and misinformed claim of american history. Typical liberal mind to twist it that way.
The article complains about the 1862 homestead act? The native North American is not “black”. Sounds like cultural and historical appropriation by the Blacks. Not only that, it this that very 1862 homestead act that gave freed slaves and other Blacks (and single women for that matter) the opportunity to own land and escape the James Crow oppression (among other things). So the bottom line of the argument is that because Lincoln gave Blacks land it proves Lincoln did not care about Black lives.