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发帖数: 19235 | 1 George Washington, the first American president, has his face on the quarter
and the $1 bill. So many things are named after him — counties, towns,
mountains, bridges, lakes and countless schools.
But the president of the San Francisco School Board, Matt Haney, wants to
change the names of any of the city’s schools that are named after slave
owners such as Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
“We should rename Washington High School after San Francisco native, poet
and author Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou High School. No schools named after
slave owners,” Haney wrote on his Twitter account Sunday.
He said he got the idea Sunday after listening to a sermon by Rev. Amos
Brown at San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church. Brown spoke of Francis Scott
Key, who wrote the lyrics of the Star-Spangled Banner, and of San Francisco
49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand when it was
played during two NFL preseason games.
Haney said that after the sermon, people talked about schools in San
Francisco named after Key and other figures who were slave owners.
George Washington High School, Haney said, has a mural of Washington with
slaves. Thousands of African Americans, he said, have graduated from the
school. | l*****o
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