{"id":121503,"date":"2021-02-08T20:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121503"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:42:52","slug":"san-francisco-school-board-president-critics-of-decision-to-rename-schools-undermining-anti-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-school-board-president-critics-of-decision-to-rename-schools-undermining-anti-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco School Board President: Critics Of Decision To Rename Schools \u2018Undermining Anti-Racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-school-board-president-critics-of-decision-to-rename-schools-undermining-anti-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121503&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1291843544.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>San Francisco United School District board president, Gabriela Lopez, claimed in an interview with the New Yorker that critics of the district\u2019s decision to rename buildings named after \u201ccontroversial\u201d figures are \u201cundermining\u201d the districts \u201canti-racism\u201d efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire reported last week, San Francisco\u2019s school district voted to rename 44 schools named after \u201cracist\u201d and \u201ccontroversial\u201d figures.<\/p>\n<p>Local media, though, discovered that the research group, charged with deciding whether certain schools should be renamed, failed to do an exhaustive investigation into each historical figure \u2014 and, in some cases, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-public-schools-renaming-plan-rife-with-historical-errors\">made major research errors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Google Doc, used by a San Francisco Public Schools renaming committee to track historical research into \u2018controversial\u2019 figures whose names appeared on 44 of the district\u2019s buildings, was \u2018rife with historical errors\u2019 and contained information gathered through \u2018casual Google searches\u2019 \u2014 and in some cases, the information did not relate at all to the individual considered \u2018controversial,\u2019\u201d the Daily Wire noted.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Revere was struck from school buildings over an unsubstantiated connection to the \u201cconquest\u201d of the Penobscot Tribe, for example, and philanthropist James Lick was deemed dishonorable because of his \u201csupport\u201d for a \u201cracist\u201d statue \u2014 a statue that was erected decades after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez defended the SFUSD\u2019s vote, though, even when confronted with the errors concerning Revere and Lick, suggesting, instead, that critics were aiming to preserve \u201cracist\u201d historical figures and undermine \u201canti-racism\u201d efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, for me, I guess it\u2019s just the criteria was created to show if there were ties to these specific themes, right? White supremacy, racism, colonization, ties to slavery, the killing of indigenous people, or any symbols that embodied that,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cAnd the committee shared that these are the names that have these ties. And so, for me, at this moment, I have the understanding we have to do the teaching, but also I do agree that we shouldn\u2019t have these ties, and this is a way of showing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She suggested, even, that the interviewer\u2019s decision to question the group\u2019s research was itself an effort to undermine the school district\u2019s anti-racism crusade and \u201cdiscredit\u201d the renaming committee\u2019s \u201cwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo then you go into discrediting the work that they\u2019re doing, and the process that they put together in order to create this list,\u201d she added. \u201cSo when we begin to have these conversations, and we\u2019re pointing to that, and we\u2019re given the reasoning and they\u2019re sharing why they made this choice and why they\u2019re putting it out there, I don\u2019t want to get into a process where we then discredit the work that this group has done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real issue is how we are challenged when we talk about racism,\u201d she said, turning it back on her interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what you\u2019re pointing to and what I keep hearing is you\u2019re trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process,\u201d she concluded. \u201cAnd I\u2019m moving away from the idea that it was haphazard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco school district has yet to set a date for the name changes. San Francisco city government has raised concerns that the project will cost upwards of $2 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-school-board-votes-to-rename-schools-named-after-dianne-feinstein-abraham-lincoln-george-washington\"><strong>Related: San Francisco School Board Votes To Rename Schools Named After Dianne Feinstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco United School District board president, Gabriela Lopez, claimed in an interview with the New Yorker that critics of the district\u2019s decision to rename buildings named after \u201ccontroversial\u201d figures &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892937,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3664,4365,4552,4641,3669,3924],"class_list":["post-121503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-board","tag-critics","tag-decision","tag-francisco","tag-president","tag-school"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}