….this time in Compton, CA.
This is old news by now. Other schools have done the same or plan to do so.
ht: michelle malkin (note: the signs are fake)
The fist sentence of the article is so funny: “In honor of everything Barack Obama has accomplished as 44th president of the United States…”
Heavens ta mergatroy. When this article first appeared, Obama hadn’t even been sworn in yet! Yes, being the first black man to be elected president is somethin’ else, but one’s values and the decisions based on them trump race. I don’t know who , exactly, decided to re-name the school, but imagine the egg on their faces if he does not do a good job.
A question to the more historically initiated: has *any* other president had a school named after him in honor of his presidency *before* he was inaugurated?
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I would like to point out that, for all the P.C. and media brouahah, Obama is not a “black” man, nor is he “African-American.” Firstly, since he has one parent who is white, why have they never referred to him as a “white” man? By focusing only on his black parentage, the media has demonstrated their racism. Of course the same could be said of Obama’s whole campaign – no one ever said he was a white man. As for “African-American,” there is no such place as “Africa-America.” What happened to just plain “American”? I have English ancestry, yet I would never call myself “Anglo-American.”. I also have German, Welsh, Scots, Irish, Jewish and Wamponaug Indian ancestry – which should I hyphenate?
If those of us with common sense would quit using the term “African American” and do what used to be okay – Negro or Black, or even brown – then we’d help eliminate a fractured society of hyphenated Americans. But what I’d rather see is not to divide people by skin color in the first place. Why don’t we just call Obama a “man”!
The ironic thing about this whole thing is that Obama’s election didn’t demonstrate that everyone has access to the Presidency – it just continued the proof that the only people who will ever be President are the wealthy who can raise even more millions of dollars that their opponents.