Minneapolis school board backs effort
to rename Patrick Henry High School
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/17/2022 3:39:54 PM
The Minneapolis school board took action Tuesday night to begin a process to rename the city's Patrick Henry High School. The resolution that passed unanimously is aimed at ending debate "about whether or not the name should be changed," and directs the north Minneapolis school's site council "to bring forward recommendations for a new school name." The resolution says students, staff and the community "recognize the need for a school name that better represents the values of the community." Patrick Henry High School was named after the 18th century American Founding Father who famously proclaimed "Give me liberty, or give me death!"(Snip)Henry said he was opposed to slavery—but
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Out with the old, in with the new, just as the communists promised; the "new" in this case being newcomers with zero connection to what once was the USA. They already renamed schools that had honored Thomas Jefferson and Yankee General Philip Sheridan for crimes of slaveholding and being mean to the Indians.