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Lanny said:
julius,
He said that Virginia had a law against freeing slaves. And he did argue against it in both our Constitution and as a general way of life.
You simply can't compare him to most slave owners.
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He could have given them to someone else and had none himself.
 
Should name the schools after blazers.

"Next fall, I'm going to Qyntel Woods High!"

barfo
 
barfo said:
Should name the schools after blazers.

"Next fall, I'm going to Qyntel Woods High!"

barfo
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"only wimps go to Valentine High"

"I do chemistry experiments at Petrie High"

"the candle burns at both ends at Wicks High"

"we have sick jokes at Gross High"

"we didn't have to change the name of Washington High"

yeah, I know they suck but I can't wake up today for some reason
 
YES!!! RACIST ASS WOODROW WILSON... AND THOMAS PEDOPHILE JEFFERSON... TEAR THEM DOWN...
 
Lanny said:
Jefferson was opposed to slavery, He fought hard to make it unConstitutional. I believe he turned all his slaves free before he died. So, he was bad for once owning slaves it's not what you were or once believed it's what you are or believe last that counts.

When I was 8 or 9 years old, I was a little racist but about when I turned 12 I changed and have been virulent in my opposition to racism ever since. Does that make me bad?
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Lanny I don't know what you're talking about but Jefferson owned 600+ slaves!

Many he created by having sex with his 14 year-old slave girl.
 
julius said:
I wonder why they're starting with Wilson, and not with Jefferson (although maybe how people will perceive the choice of going with Jefferson first might be an issue?).

Jefferson owned slaves for fucks sake.

I'm not opposed to name changes of schools (etc), but as long as it's just putting a pig in a tuxedo, the underlying issues will still be there.
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Instead of wondering look up the history of Woodrow Wilson.

It's all there to see.
 
MARIS61 said:
What a waste of time. Nobody will notice.

Very few Portland School District students can read.
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Lol going for the REPENT SINNER Bobby Hill meme?2715E430-C2CA-408C-ABF3-9E92E8EE08D6.jpeg
 

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dviss1 said:
Lanny I don't know what you're talking about but Jefferson owned 600+ slaves!

Many he created by having sex with his 14 year-old slave girl.
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He publicly opposed slavery and tried very hard to get it eliminated in the Constitution. The South opposed him and threatened to not support the new union without slavery. With no support from the South we were doomed to lose to the British.
Also, it depends on how you define many and I'm not even sure that Sally was not a willing participant.

"Unlike countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner. In Paris, where she was free, the 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia."

https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/
 
Negotiate "with her owner".

Kind of proves the point....
 
dviss1 said:
Instead of wondering look up the history of Woodrow Wilson.

It's all there to see.
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I know the history, just was curious as to choice of order.

Wasn't saying the name didn't deserve to change.
 
Lanny said:
He publicly opposed slavery and tried very hard to get it eliminated in the Constitution. The South opposed him and threatened to not support the new union without slavery. With no support from the South we were doomed to lose to the British.
Also, it depends on how you define many and I'm not even sure that Sally was not a willing participant.

"Unlike countless enslaved women, Sally Hemings was able to negotiate with her owner. In Paris, where she was free, the 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia."

https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/
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No... No... No.... HE FUCKING RAPED HER...
 
dviss1 said:
No... No... No.... HE FUCKING RAPED HER...
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How is it rape when she was given the choice of leaving him, when they were in France, but chose to stay with him? Not saying it wasn't because I don't know all the details but I don't see it on the face.
 
Natebishop3 said:
My entire childhood is getting erased though.

Jackson.

Wilson.
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I was lucky, I graduated from Lincoln. I almost went to Lake Oswego high school so I would have still been lucky if we hadn't moved.
I went to Forest Hills grade school and finished grade school at Chapman in Portland. I was slated to go to (Lake) Oswego Junior High for the 7th grade but we moved to Portland and had two more years of grade school where I excelled writing an article in the 8th grade which was included in our history. I dearly wish I could have remained in Oswego which changed it's name to Lake Oswego 2 or 3 months after we moved.
William Chapman was probably not the greatest guy but I can't find where he ever owned any slaves even though he was born in 1808 in Virginia where he was raised.He was 57 when slavery was ended by a change in the Constitution, the 13th Amendment in 1865.
 
Natebishop3 said:
My entire childhood is getting erased though.

Jackson.

Wilson.
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Are they changing Jackson?


They changed it once from Markham to Jackson, people survived
 
Natebishop3 said:
Markham and Jackson were two different schools.
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Yeah, as Jackson was originally one of two new high schools that were built in the late 60's and then both turned to middle schools with Adams eventually torn down.
 
CupWizier said:
Yeah, as Jackson was originally one of two new high schools that were built in the late 60's and then both turned to middle schools with Adams eventually torn down.
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And for all of us who are older than dirt, Adams was the old Girl’s Polytechnical HS (“Girl’s Poly”) until the late ‘60s/early ‘70s. Basically the female counterpart to Benson.....
 
Minstrel said:
We're not counting all the years you spent hanging around the high school post-graduation trying to pick up high school girls.
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CupWizier said:
Yeah, as Jackson was originally one of two new high schools that were built in the late 60's and then both turned to middle schools with Adams eventually torn down.
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Don't forget the demise of Washington high school where my ex wife graduated.
 
Lanny said:
Don't forget the demise of Washington high school where my ex wife graduated.
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My wife graduated from Washington High School as well in 1972. She also knew Alan and Carl Ruggles. My sister in law was actually the last graduating class at Washington-Monroe in 81'.
 
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