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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on November 21, 2008, 12:13:56 PM
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NY elementary school is renamed for Obama
NEW YORK (AP) - It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama.
The former Ludlum Elementary School, in Long Island's Hempstead Union Free School District, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday—effective immediately.
School officials say most of the 440 students there are black or Hispanic, and Obama's victory is a source of great pride.
Nope. No racism there. :whatever:
LINK (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94JEU0O6&show_article=1)
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IF Obama shows himself to be a great President, I wouldn't have a problem with all this Obama mania. But, hell, he hasn't even been officially elected and even taken office yet and it's just insane!! Racism, thy name is Obama.......
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IF Obama shows himself to be a great President, I wouldn't have a problem with all this Obama mania. But, hell, he hasn't even been officially elected and even taken office yet and it's just insane!! Racism, thy name is Obama.......
Yep. This kind of thing follows people who have accomplishments to their name...made great contributions to society. I expect that the big zero has accomplished all he is going to. I guess they wanted to avoid the rush. :whatever:
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Oh my.
Isn't that rather monarchial?
I've always been leery about, in a republic, naming things for still-living people.
It's perfectly fine and acceptable in non-republics, putting still-living people on coins and stamps and naming things and places after them, but it's not okay in our sort of system and society.
In New Jersey, there was some highway system named for Brendan Byrne when he was still living, and still governor of that state. The system was named for him before he got into all sorts of trouble for corruption.
And look at the highway systems around Chicago.
It's the law--a perfectly good republican (small "r") law--that makes it not possible to put the image or name of a still-living person on U.S. coins and postage stamps; I think it should be extended to cover all tangible things.
I know, I know; sign-makers in West Virginia would be doing overtime for years, changing names of things and places there, but it's good for the economy and good for our system of ostensible egalitarianism.
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Actually 62% of the students are Latino. Hmm...hardly seems like such a great ethnic victory seeing as Obama is like...0% Latino. :whatever:
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/ny/other/1117#students
Oh and nobody tell them that he's 50% white either..I mean, I don't care, but seeing as this whole race thing is such a huge deal for some peeps they keep forgetting that he's still 50% 'the man'. :lmao: