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NOLA: The old slaveholder and Confederate names of New Orleans schools
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:06 pm
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:10 pm to ihometiger
I notice something.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:11 pm to ihometiger
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It also passed a policy that opposed names honoring “former slave owners or others who did not respect equal opportunity for all," according to The Times-Picayune archives.
Guess we won't be naming an Obama Elementary anytime soon...
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:17 pm to ihometiger
Renaming those schools sure helped the students of Orleans Parish
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:26 pm to ihometiger
Nola is the next Detroit
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:30 pm to ihometiger
I have no problem with people renaming the schools. Maybe if it is named after someone they can relate to and respect they will respect the building and the institution of learning. Maybe they won't, but I think it is reasonable to try.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:35 pm to ihometiger
First president of the USA? Nope not good enough, you owned slaves like every other rich guy
US Senator, Supreme Court Chief Justice? Nope you were a Cobfederate lieutenant
Gospel singer? Yep you get a school
Congresswoman from TX? Yeah you can have one
US Senator, Supreme Court Chief Justice? Nope you were a Cobfederate lieutenant
Gospel singer? Yep you get a school
Congresswoman from TX? Yeah you can have one
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:36 pm to ihometiger
From one racist side of the spectrum to the other
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:38 pm to ihometiger
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Anyone notice anything strange with the people who replaced the previously named buildings?
That renaming the schools has boosted New Orleans to the top of every public school ranking in America. Thank God!
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:50 pm to jdeval1
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Nola is the next Detroit
NOLA has been just as bad, or worse, for a very long time.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:03 pm to ihometiger
I remember reading a story years ago when they tried to rename all the McDonogh schools. Apparently, McDonogh made gifts of money and property. However, if they ever renamed any of the schools (or other property), all the property (and money) would revert back to McDonogh's heirs. So, Mitch the Little B!tch is stuck with the McDonogh name.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:24 pm to jdeval1
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Nola is the next Detroit
Nola was Detroit before Detroit...
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:28 pm to ihometiger
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In this 1995 photo, gifted resource teacher Gary Genco shows off samples from Apollo 7’s trips to the Moon.
Apollo 7 didn't land on the Moon.
This must've been a Sheila Jackson Lee field trip.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:30 pm to Tiger-kev
Shut the frick up Bama trash! I'm sure you and your redneck arse family run to N'awlins all the time for good food. As for the the people out there in those shite lil parishes that were never worried about what's going on in New Orleans before and casting stones at it, now all of sudden you are. Really??
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:34 pm to ihometiger
I notice these schools are shitholes and education hasn't improved, so changing the names did nothing of merit.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:40 pm to ihometiger
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:47 pm to ihometiger
Wow. Seeing those pictures and realizing we aren't putting every extra dollar into schools is frustrating. The NOLA public schools are pathetic, unless you get to go to the 3 or so new ones.
Also: even though I'm glad it wasn't a slideshow, the format sucks on that list.
Also: even though I'm glad it wasn't a slideshow, the format sucks on that list.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:44 pm to MMauler
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I remember reading a story years ago when they tried to rename all the McDonogh schools. Apparently, McDonogh made gifts of money and property. However, if they ever renamed any of the schools (or other property), all the property (and money) would revert back to McDonogh's heirs. So, Mitch the Little B!tch is stuck with the McDonogh name.
John McDonogh died around 1850. He willed about $750,000 in money and real estate to New Orleans and Baltimore (where he lived until he was about 20) to build public schools for poor children, white and black.
At one time, there was something in the neighborhood of 40 or 45 McDonogh funded schools in New Orleans that bore his name. Now there are just a few. Many have been re-named after other people, primarily civil rights activists.
I'm not familiar with any stipulation in his will regarding repaying his heirs if school names were changed. If that's true, N.O. obviously doesn't give a shite, because they've been re-naming McDonogh schools for 40 years or so.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:50 pm to brass2mouth
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US Senator, Supreme Court Chief Justice? Nope you were a Cobfederate lieutenant
At least E.D. White is a private high school.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 12:37 am to PowerTool
The highest level of donation to th Louisiana Bar Foundation is named afyer E.D. White.
This post was edited on 5/17/17 at 12:46 am
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