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San Francisco takes the war on history very seriously.
Forget the pandemic, rising crime, economic uncertainty, and the buildup of human waste and tent cities on the streets.
That can all wait.
San Francisco’s real priority is changing school names to ensure that they all conform to the ever-evolving standards of the woke left.
The San Francisco Unified School District School Names Advisory Committee, established in 2018, created a list of 44 schools to be immediately renamed in the city.
Here are the criteria by which the committee evaluated school names for changing:
- Anyone directly involved in the colonization of people.
- Slave owners or participants in enslavement.
- Perpetuators of genocide or slavery.
- Those who exploit workers/people.
- Those who directly oppressed or abused women, children, queer or transgender people.
- Those connected to any human rights or environmental abuses.
- Those who are known racists and/or white supremacists and/or espoused racist beliefs.
Given the rather extensive way in which oppression and racism is defined by woke “antiracists,” this list could extend to pretty much anyone, ever.
The committee suggests honoring “Indigenous nations and Indigenous communities,” as well as those “who have made outstanding contributions to humanity or in defense of Mother Earth.”
However, Indigenous people in America practiced slavery, frequently took land from their neighbors, and practiced forest management, all problematic, according to the guidelines.
Not a good sign for the future of Indigenous Peoples Day.
So, who actually made the cut of baddies to be purged?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Muir, Junipero Serra, and many other leading lights of America’s past who are among the most consequential people in human history.
Somehow, a movement that began with erasing Confederate generals ended with purging Lincoln, Washington, and leading abolitionists. Who could have imagined that?
Lowell High School is named after James Russell Lowell, who was a celebrated abolitionist. Civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. drew inspiration from Lowell in his “We Shall Overcome” speech.
However, Lowell’s name could be purged because his zeal for the anti-slavery cause was deemed insufficient.
And what of King, a legendary civil rights hero who didn’t make the list of the damned? One wonders how he can survive the committee’s standards or the ideology of the woke.
King’s greatest contribution to the world, convincing Americans to treat others by their character rather than their skin color and adhering to the principles of equality as defined in the Declaration of Independence, is now considered racist by so-called antiracists.
Equality is out and equity is in. Racial discrimination is a positive good, as long as it’s directed against the right people. King must go, clearly.
Labor hero Cesar Chavez should be toast, too. After all, Chavez opposed illegal immigration as a young man. Somehow, Cesar Chavez Elementary didn’t make the list, but as we’ve seen with Lowell and others, we can’t forgive a little slip up or departure onto the wrong side of history.
The wisdom of this moment demands that the good and the great shall not stand in the way of our drive to be perfect.
Amusingly enough, the committee’s recommendation includes Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., whose namesake elementary school was put on the list, according to the New York Post, “because she reportedly replaced a vandalized Confederate flag in 1986.”
It’s not looking good for the California senator.
A San Francisco Chronicle poll found Dianne Feinstein Elementary at the top of the list of names to change.
Perhaps San Francisco left-wingers still haven’t forgiven her for telling a group of environmentalist activist schoolchildren that the Green New Deal was unaffordable.
If you are not pure, you must be purged.
It’s not hard to see the absurdity of this whole name-changing initiative in general, but it’s even more ridiculous considering that it’s taking place during a pandemic in which schools are shut down.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said that the renaming plan was “like trying to iron your socks during a house fire.”
In a notable moment of common sense, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who generally supports name changes, blasted the committee’s call for the purge in the middle of a crisis.
“To address inequities, we need to get our kids back in the classroom,” Breed said in a statement.
“[T]he fact that our kids aren’t in school is what’s driving inequity in our city, not the name of a school,” Breed said.
If the school board approves the name changes in December, San Francisco will spend a huge amount of money changing the names of schools all over the city, schools that no children may actually be attending.
Somehow, this is perfectly befitting the kind of dysfunctional, absurd, left-wing governance and empty virtue signaling we are used to seeing in the beautiful but broken Golden State.
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Them people who are making these rules need to examine them selves and be honest about it. Nobody including them are perfect. As I see it, they fit into all that category. If they are looking for perfection then they need to start where they work and eliminate themselves, otherwise the dipsticks win and they won’t like it when their taxes go up to pay for their wants and wishes that will never do what they thought would happen. How dumb!!!!!!!!
Let’s strip San Fran of any federal funding (taxpayer dollars). If they can’t play by the rules then they can’t be payed by the rules. It’s simple stuff really.
What an immature outlook, let’s just change history..to leave out anything that is objected to! Removing names of historical importance is ignorant. If this continues go ahead and take away federal funds.
Are the “woke’s” related to the “Wookies” in the Star War movies?
There’s one alternative and that is to VOTE them OUT or this is what’s happening and is going to happen !
Demand our voting is fare and honest “PARTICIPATE IN THIS HAPPENING”
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 1963
Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34–A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
02–06–18
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
U. S. Congressional Seal[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long–term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one–world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book–review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old–fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un–American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special–interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self–government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court
You may not find these 45 Communist Goals on the Web in it’s original form because in 1963 there were no digitized documents. You will find web sites that have copied them as I have. Call your local library and you can obtain an original copy there. Or ask your U. S. Congressional Member. They will be able to help you get a genuine copy of this Congressional Record of the 45 Communist Goals. — Donna Calvin, The Word Warriorette
70 Card Carrying Communists in Congress
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.
(DSA: Democratic Socialists of America)
DSA members in congress – 70
Eleven DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee.
John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].
DSA members of 111th Congress.
Co-Chairs
Dis-Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Dis-Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs
Dis-Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Dis-Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Dis-Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Dis-Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Senate Members
Not so Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
House Members,Hon. Neil Dis-Hon Abercrombie (HI-01)
Dis-Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Dis-Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Dis-Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Dis-Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01),
Dis-Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Dis-Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Dis-Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Dis-Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL),
Dis-Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Dis-Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01),
Dis-Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Dis-Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09),
Dis-Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Dis-Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Dis-Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Dis-Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) recently deposed
Dis-Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Dis-Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Dis-Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Dis-Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Dis-Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Dis-Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Dis-Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Dis-Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Dis-Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Dis-Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Dis-Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Dis-Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Dis-Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Dis-Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Dis-Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Dis-Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Dis-Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Dis-Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Dis-Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Dis-Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Dis-Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Dis-Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Dis-Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Dis-Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Dis-Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Dis-Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Dis-Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Dis-Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Dis-Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Dis-Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Dis-Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Dis-Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Dis-Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Dis-Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Dis-Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Dis-Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Dis-Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Dis-Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Dis-Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Dis-Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Dis-Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Dis-Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Dis-Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Dis-Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Dis-Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Dis-Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Dis-Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Dis-Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Dis-Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Dis-Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Dis-Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Dis-Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)
THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963
Do you not REMEMBER Nancy Pelosi said: They are coming after your Children, She is correct, if We’ don’t these deranged Democrats will have them so brainwashed We’ll lose them, therefore we must go after Our Children by protecting them from these people.
We must avoid a civil war, We the People must VOTE these leftists out of OUR Government.
San Fran should put as much effort into dealing with the homeless and the epidemic of people crapping in the streets.
I can just think about how many hours that people put in on their jobs, working their butts off to pay taxes that will go to pay for stupidity like this!! It will wind up costing millions of taxpayer money to take the old sign down and put up the new sign with the “politically correct” name on it. Meanwhile, kids will have to go door to door selling chocolate candy bars or magazine subscriptions to pay for what THEY REALLY need, the tools to help them to LEARN.
If the taxpayers of San Francisco were to bond together and refuse to pay their taxes until these councilmen and Mayor would put a stop to this, they just might listen to the voice of the people!
How many of those “woke” people are wearing Nike shoes or other things made by child slave labor ?