Some of the condemned make sense - Father Junipero Serra, for instance, or Commodore John Sloat, the Navy officer who conquered California in the name of Manifest Destiny.
27, the San Francisco school board voted to rename 44 schools that it felt honored people who didn’t deserve the homage. He’s on my mind again, and not just because this Wednesday is his birthday, an official California holiday. The United Farm Workers founder is the first person I always think about whenever there’s talk about canceling people from the past. And left behind a conflicted legacy nowhere near pure enough for today’s woke warriors.Ī long-dead white man? A titan of the business world? Perhaps a local politician? Undercut his organization with an authoritarian style that pushed away dozens of talented staffers and contrasted sharply with the people-power principles he publicly espoused. He accepted an all-expenses-paid trip from a repressive government and gladly received an award from its ruthless dictator despite pleas from activists not to do so. He opposed undocumented immigrants to the point of urging his followers to report them to la migra. Let me tell you about an American hero whom the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education might find, um, troublesome.
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