First It Was Confederate Generals, Now it’s Black Conservatives
Renaming buildings was never about fighting racism.
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Renaming buildings was never about fighting racism.
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.@LaMarLemmons, a Democrat, was the leading advocate for removing Carson's name from the school. Lemmons, along with his wife, Georgia Lemmons, sits on the school board, has used his position to blame Michigan’s emergency managers for all of Detroit’s self-created problems.
Lemmons, a “Bernie-crat”, also got his completely unprepared sister-in-law elected to the State Senate.
“Quite frankly, it is a political thing,” he admitted. “We named a school after an individual who is in the Trump administration.”
“Quite frankly, it is a political thing,” he admitted. “We named a school after an individual who is in the Trump administration.”
The Democrat insisted that having a medical sciences school named after a brilliant African-American surgeon from Detroit was “synonymous with having Trump’s name on our school in blackface.”
“When you align yourself with Trump, that is a direct affront to the city of Detroit and the students of Detroit,” he insisted.
If the name change goes forward, it may be the first instance of a school being renamed because it was named after a Republican.
If the name change goes forward, it may be the first instance of a school being renamed because it was named after a Republican.
Lemmons is okay with a school being named after a white slaveholder, but not a black conservative.
“Lewis Cass was a slaveholder,” Lemmons said. “But I would never recommend changing the name of Cass.”
“Lewis Cass was a slaveholder,” Lemmons said. “But I would never recommend changing the name of Cass.”
The parade of renamings has drifted into the realm of the ridiculous. In Portland, Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood and Lynch View elementary schools were renamed because they had the word, "Lynch" in them.
The schools were named after Patrick Lynch, a berry farmer, who donated some land to build schools.
Renaming schools named after a berry farmer, who shares a last name with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and numerous other African-Americans, has nothing to do with fighting racism.
It’s political correctness.
It’s political correctness.
Political correctness doesn’t actually fight racism. It only pretends to do so, exploiting outrage over racism to justify its power grabs. The point of renaming a school named Lynch isn’t to fight racism, but to wield the power to rename schools.
Renaming educational institutions and buildings named after African-American conservatives however is the core purpose for which that power is truly wielded.
The renaming revolution was not about fighting dead Confederate generals. It was a convenient pretext for legitimizing a politically correct purge.
Outrage over racism and slavery was used to build a movement whose ultimate targets were not dead 19th century rebels, but living conservatives.
Including the greatest threat of them all, African-American conservatives.
Including the greatest threat of them all, African-American conservatives.
Political correctness doesn’t fight discrimination. It implements it.
And its machine for suppressing intellectual diversity inevitably reaches the same African-Americans, women, gay people and others whom it claims to be protecting from discrimination when they dissent from political correctness.
The Left begins by fighting racism and then implements it.
