San Francisco tries to cancel Washington, Jefferson, & Lincoln

Has San Francisco's cancel culture finally gone too far? With today's ALG minute, I'm Catherine Mortensen. Thousands of San Francisco residents are banning together to stop the city from renaming 44 schools that honor so-called “racist” historical leaders — including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. More than 7,200 people have signed an online petition slamming the school board’s controversial vote to scrap the names of former US presidents and war heroes with ties to racism or oppression. As one right-thinking resident said: “We feel that whether socialist, conservative or independent, if you honor truth in history, politics needs to be put to the side. We don’t want to erase things.” The whole point of history is to look at a person's SIGNIFICANT achievements and contributions and honor those things -- not tear them down for their faults. A country with no heroes has no guiding principles and will fail. We can and must be honest about our heroes shortcomings without denying their greatnessShow more

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