[AMARILLO] Trustees of the largest school district in Texas have decided that four campuses with Confederate names will get new monikers.
The Houston Independent School District board voted Thursday night to rename Robert E. Lee High School plus three middle schools -- Henry Grady, Richard Dowling and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
A committee at each school -- including a teacher, a parent, a student and alumni -- will propose a new name, with recommendations to trustees.
Confederate symbols nationwide are facing review over concerns about racism. James Douglas, president of the NAACP of Houston, urged the board to drop Confederate loyalists from school names.
One critic of changing names, Howard Moon, says a lot of people are getting tired of political correctness.
The Houston ISD has about 215,000 students at 283 schools.
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As I said before: if you're going to destroy a nation, you have to start by wiping out its history.
[CSMONITOR] At Sunday night's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Kissinger ... will be facing far more than a resurgent Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... . She will face mounting evidence of an open political rebellion among white Americans. Your party is racist. You talk down to whites based on their color. You pronounce us racist whatever we do. And then you want us to vote for you.
The dynamic has already been well-established among Republicans, where it is most acute given the predominantly white demographics of the party. Working-class whites, buffeted by the Great Recession and an economic recovery that has seen the wealthy move further ahead, are forming a key nexus of the Trump vote. Black Lives Matter. Don't say "all lives matter." We saw what happens when somebody's dumb enough to do that.
Now, white voters appear to be stirring the Democratic race in similarly surprising ways. Senator Sanders of Vermont has long held a lead on former Secretary of State Clinton in New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Feb. 9. New polls show that he is now essentially tied with Clinton in Iowa -- and even ahead among white voters nationally -- ahead of the Feb. 1 caucuses there. Sanders isn't Clinton. That might be a factor. Martin O'Malley is nobody.
These first primary states -- among the whitest in America -- could dramatically change the narrative of Clinton's primary campaign from one of inevitability to one that suggests she is teetering on a repeat of 2008, when she lost to underdog Barack Obama. I inhaled. That was the point... In 2016, the demographics could work in her favor, with the states that follow Iowa and New Hampshire being much more diverse, and Clinton holding a large lead on Sanders among black and Latino voters. But the evidence that white primary voters might opt for a general election between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, at least at this moment, is a graphic indicator of how their thirst for "change" has only broadened and deepened since Mr. Obama's election eight years ago.
The change they appear to want is more than a change of party or ideology to something approaching a reset button for American politics. A Trump or Sanders presidency would represent a profound rejection of business as usual in Washington. Now, it seems, white voters of both parties are seriously considering it -- at least fleetingly, in the case of Democrats.
On the Republican side, the trend has been going on long enough that its causes have become fairly well known. With establishment Republicans unable to coalesce around a single candidate, antiestablishment candidates such as Mr. Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have built strong momentum heading into the Iowa caucuses.
Sanders's latest rise has come so suddenly and unexpectedly that its causes are less clear. Yet despite the galactic differences between Sanders and Trump on policy, a clear line strings them together as politicians.
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She will face mounting evidence of an open political rebellion among white Americans.
It's not just 'white Americans' it's anyone with at least a 3rd grade education.
[Breitbart] "I know how much money influences the political decision-making," Clinton said, not acknowledging the irony of the statement, considering her years of Wall Street campaign contributions. Bloodly well right she does, she keeps the receipts in her Chappaqua potting shed.
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AFAIC, as went the Bammer Admin's response in Benghazi, or LACK OF SAME, so also amy the Bammer Admin respond as per agz CHINA in the China Seas andor IOR, + agz IRAN in ME.
There's also Darth Vlad = RUSSIA, but I'm not too worried about a US MilPol confrontation wid Moscow their MSM-Net rhetoric to the contrary.
As a reminder per various MSM-Net Artic Reposts...
* WAFF > [Business Insider] "PROVOKE AT YOUR PERIL": OBAMA ADMIN IS SENDING A MESSAGE TO SAUDI ARABIA.
* WORLD NEWS > [SCMP] 2016 COULD PROVE TO BE A AMEK-OR-BRAEK YEAR, AS [Unilateral, MilPol = Geopol aggressive] NEW CHINA STRATEGIES TO BE BORN.
* LUCIANNE, DAILY BEAST > THE YEAR OF [America = US-Allies] LIVING DANGEROUSLY: OBAMA AND YEAR 2016
As a matter of Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS OBama-led US Foreign Policy + related, THE USDOD IS A "POSER", NOT A DEFENDER OR FIGHTER, FOR US INTERESTS INCLDU AGZ US REGIONAL OR OVERSEAS ALLIES.
THE BAMMER WILL ORDER THE DEPLOYMENT OF SELECT US MILASSETS TO WORLD TROUBLE SPOTS FOR THE DIPLOM + PCORRECT-DENIABLE PHOTO-OP, NOT TO STOP THE EXPANSION OF OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS CHINA, IRAN, + RUSSIA [Other?] AGZ US REGIONAL ALLIES???
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton
