SF school board head calls for renaming slaveowner branded schools

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-school-board-head-calls-renaming-slaveowner-branded-schools/

The head of San Francisco’s school board wants to strip the names of slaveholders off local public schools like George Washington High School, one of many schools in The City named after dead white men with “problematic” histories, he said Monday.

Board of Education President Matt Haney is expected to introduce a resolution as early as next week encouraging schools in the San Francisco Unified School District that bear the names of men with questionable human rights legacies to consider proposing new monikers.

Haney is hoping the school district can have more schools named after people of color, women and LGBT figures, he said....

The idea came to him after listening to a sermon Sunday at Third Baptist Church, a black church in the Western Addition, about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick protesting the national anthem in recent weeks. The song’s slave-owning author, Francis Scott Key, has a school named after him in the Outer Sunset.

[Throd]

1. Better rename the city while he's at it.

The Spaniards of the time also had questionable human rights practices.

[KamaAina]

2. St. Francis of Assisi (San Francisco de Asis) was Italian.

[Brother Buzz]

3. The United States already changed it to San Francisco in 1847

The Spanish named it Yerba Buena

AN ORDINANCE WHEREAS, the local name of Yerba Buena, as applied to the settlement or town of San Francisco, is unknown beyond the district; and has been applied from the local name of the cove, on which the town is built: Therefore, to prevent confusion and mistakes in public documents, and that the town may have the advantage of the name given on the public map;
IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED, that the name of SAN FRANCISCO shall hereafter be used in all official communications and public documents, or records appertaining to the town.

– Washington Bartlett, Chief magistrate
January 30, 1847

Capt Montgomery appointed his Spanish-speaking lieutenant, Washington Bartlett, as the first American alcalde (magistrate) of Yerba Buena in 1846.


Yeah, the United States had questionable human rights practices, too, what with that manifest destiny shit, so I see no reason to go there.