Here we go - Tulsa public schools to start review of school names..

[KOPBET]

Name it Duke elementary and let 'em guess... or blow a gasket.

 

[donner]

So you think that Oklahoma was part of the United States when they were president.

hardly. But if we are looking for reasons to name schools after folks, starting with people who 1) were winners and 2) were presidents of a group with which we belong seems like a good start.

 

[steelfingers]

Being a university town, actually. A bit silly if you ask me but the name was deliberate.

Yep. Wanted to get the state university there and thought that would be a draw. Good thing they didn't want the University of Tehran.

 

[SMS]

You're in charge. Do what you want. Better?

Nope. Seems like some folks just want to talk about it and give it a review. The only ones I see getting "triggered" are our resident reactionaries.

 

[donner]

And Oxford MS has what to do with England?

who knows. I think Oxpatch just never seemed dignified enough.

and we have a sister town in france, go figure.

But oxford (and ole miss especially) has had a lot of dealings with the do you/don't you rename things. We have two confederate statues in town and on campus, a confederate cemetery, buildings built by slaves and a building with bullet holes from the '62 riots where a man died trying to integrate the university. It's a place with a lot of screwed up history.

Oh, and we have buildings named for people who advocated lynching.

 

[O4L]

Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!

There is a Lee school here in Shawnee.

Maybe I should get my panties in a wad and write someone a letter about how it hurts my feelers.

 

[MacFromOK]

they were presidents of these united states, of which oklahoma is one.

Edited to add: And those folks were always on the winning side.

Weren't some also slave owners?

Maybe we should tear down the Washington Monument...

 

[donner]

Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!

There is a Lee school here in Shawnee.

Maybe I should get my panties in a wad and write someone a letter about how it hurts my feelers.

i'm sure having your panties wadded up there would hurt your feelers, but i don't know if you want to broadcast it

 

[steelfingers]

who knows. I think Oxpatch just never seemed dignified enough.

and we have a sister town in france, go figure.

But oxford (and ole miss especially) has had a lot of dealings with the do you/don't you rename things. We have two confederate statues in town and on campus, a confederate cemetery, buildings built by slaves and a building with bullet holes from the '62 riots where a man died trying to integrate the university. It's a place with a lot of screwed up history.

Oh, and we have buildings named for people who advocated lynching.

What history is not screwed up?

 

[donner]

Weren't they also slave owners?

Maybe we should tear down the Washington Monument...

perhaps we should/could. It'd be a heck of a debate. I'm not personally for it, but the idea that changing or removing a monument once built (or school named) is beyond debate is foolish.

But none of them lead an active rebellion and lost, so slaves aside, that seems like a good place to start.

And did Lincoln actually own any slaves?