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Semi-Finalists for Robert E Lee Elementary (Jackson MS) New Name Include...
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:26 pm
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Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (The late)
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They say they want names that reflect the community. “Lee is named after Robert E. Lee. He was a Confederate general during the Civil War who did not want slavery to end,” said Principal Cynthia Veals. “With recent social injustices happening across the nation and the community, right now would be a good time to change the name to someone who represents what the students stood for.”
Chokwe Lumumba
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Taliaferro became more involved in Black Nationalist politics. In 1969 he changed his name to Chokwe (after the Chokwe people, an ethnic group in Central Africa that resisted slavery) Lumumba (after Patrice Lumumba, assassinated leader of the Congo).[2] He was elected in 1971 to the cabinet of the Republic of New Afrika as the second vice president.[5] As second vice president, he accompanied other members when the capital of the provisional government was moved to Hinds County, Mississippi, and dedicated at a farm there on March 28, 1971.[6] This site was considered a center of the former black-majority states claimed by the RNA for the new country. He was in the lead car with Alajo Abegbalola which was halted by the Bolton police on that day when the "Land Celebration" was set to take place, marking the establishment of the capital of the Republic of New Afrika.[7] In 1972 Lumumba was appointed by the president of the Republic of New Afrika as Minister of Justice to succeed attorney William E. Miller Jr. .
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Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:27 pm to DingLeeBerry
Just name it ZimbabweHereWeCome Elementary School
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:30 pm to DingLeeBerry
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“Lee is named after Robert E. Lee. He was a Confederate general during the Civil War who did not want slavery to end,” said Principal Cynthia Veals.
Not even close to reality.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:32 pm to DingLeeBerry
Only Black Lives Matter Elementary
Their mascot can be a protester throwing a Molotov cocktail.
Their mascot can be a protester throwing a Molotov cocktail.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:35 pm to DingLeeBerry
How about: "Not Jackson Because He owned Slaves too" Elementary.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:37 pm to DingLeeBerry
OWTH Boaty McBoatface Elementary.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:38 pm to DingLeeBerry
Prison Prep, and Vocational Elementary
Posted on 9/29/20 at 2:41 pm to DingLeeBerry
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- Civil Rights and NAACP leader Medgar Evers
- Former Mississippi Democratic State Senator Alice Harden
- Former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (The late)
- Civil Rights activist Jessie Mosley
- Civil Rights activists Aaron and Ollye Shirley
- Poet and novelist Margaret Walker-Alexander
How about Pearl River Elementary?
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:06 pm to Malik Agar
Jackson, MS, already means that to anyone familiar with the area.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:08 pm to DingLeeBerry
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Semi-Finalists for Robert E Lee Elementary (Jackson MS) New Name Include.
i voted for Schooley McSchoolface
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:08 pm to DingLeeBerry
How about not Lincoln because he was not opposed to slavery?
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:15 pm to DingLeeBerry
I'm shocked that there hasn't been a petition to change the name of the city itself.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:32 pm to longwayfromLA
Free Daycare Elementary "School"
This post was edited on 9/29/20 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:35 pm to DingLeeBerry
What, no Wakanda Elementary ? Here in BR we have a Westdale Middle School. The kids call it "WestJail".
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:37 pm to SantaFe
I thought, by law, all schools old and new had to now become Obama Academy?
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:38 pm to concrete_tiger
Even Obama drew the line at being associated with Jackson, MS.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:51 pm to teke184
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Even Obama drew the line at being associated with Jackson, MS.
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This is not the first time a Confederate name has been dropped from a JPS school. A school honoring Jefferson Davis was renamed Barack Obama Magnet Elementary School back in 2017.
Posted on 9/29/20 at 3:56 pm to DingLeeBerry
New name:
School where kids don’t do math good
School where kids don’t do math good
Posted on 9/29/20 at 4:02 pm to DingLeeBerry
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Lee is named after Robert E. Lee. He was a Confederate general during the Civil War who did not want slavery to end,” said Principal Cynthia Veals
she is either ignorant or lying...
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