Palimpsest you disgusting monster,

I demand to know your involvement in this fiasco (follow the link below):

<a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/15846" target="_blank">School May Shed Association With A U.S. President</a>

For the majority of you semi-literate socialist educrats, I will quote from the article selectively:

</p><blockquote>If the majority of parents, teachers, and students of <b>Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif.</b>, has its way, the school <b>will soon shed its name because of the hundreds of slaves [Jefferson] owned at his Monticello plantation</b>.

<b>The city's board of education is expected to vote today on a proposal to change the school's name to Sequoia Elementary</b>.
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But even with that name, the school district cannot quite dodge the slavery connotations. <b>Some community members have pointed out that under Chief Sequoia's leadership in the early 19th century, the Cherokee nation owned more than 1,500 black slaves</b>.

A spokesman for the Berkeley Unified School District, Mark Coplan, acknowledged that Chief Sequoia "presumably owned slaves and was rather barbaric," but he emphasized that <b>the proposed new name would honor the sequoia tree, not the Cherokee leader</b>.

According to Mr. Coplan, Sequoia narrowly beat out the second-place candidate, Ohlone, which would have honored a California tribe. Other names rejected in the April vote would have paid tribute to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth, black diplomat Ralph Bunche, Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez, and Berkeley's late rent-board commissioner, Florence McDonald.

In a second vote last month, the school community voted 239-177 to change the school's name to Sequoia, with students overwhelmingly supporting the proposal, while parents' votes were almost evenly split.

The issue now goes to the Berkeley school board.

The board's president, Nancy Riddle, said at the meeting that she is planning to seek legal advice before casting her vote. Ms. Riddle, who is also the chief financial officer of Monster Cable, lives just yards away from Jefferson Elementary, and board protocol would require her to recuse herself from a vote that could affect her home's property value.

In a telephone interview with The New York Sun, Ms. Riddle said she had heard "compelling" arguments from community members in favor of the name change. "I have had parents tell me that [the school's current name] makes them feel unwelcome," Ms. Riddle said. "More parent participation is a proven component of children's educational achievement."

But Michael Larrick, a self-employed general contractor and a Berkeley parent, said he thought the argument in favor of the name change was "absurd." <b>He questioned the notion of letting elementary school students cast ballots in the April and May elections." These kids are five years old. They don't have historical context to make any decisions changing the name," Mr. Larrick said.</b>

Three Berkeley schools have changed their names in the last half century, according to Mr. Coplan. A middle school named after President Garfield rechristened itself in 1968 to honor the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. And in the 1970s, Lincoln Elementary was renamed in memory of Malcolm X, although Mr. Coplan said the name change did not reflect any ill will toward the 16th president.

<b>Most recently, after a 1989 earthquake that battered Columbus Elementary School, the district dropped the name of the Italian explorer from the school's title. "There was no real question about that, because in Berkeley, we don't even celebrate Columbus Day," Mr. Coplan said. Instead, the second Monday in October is reserved for Indigenous People's Day on the Berkeley city calendar.</b>

"The real discussion that came up at the time was whether [the new name] would be Rosa Parks or Cesar Chavez," Mr. Coplan said, adding that after a "long debate," the school community chose to honor the black Alabama seamstress instead of Mr. Chavez.

<b>In an ironic twist, Mr. Larrick noted that the City of Berkeley is named after George Berkeley, an Irish-born philosopher and Anglican bishop who brought several slaves to his Rhode Island plantation in the late 1720s. "In a way, it's worse than Jefferson, because the bishop was an apologist for slavery," Mr. Larrick said.</b></blockquote><p>

Are you people all INSANE? What have you done to us all? Palimpsest, will you destroy all historically relevant white men just because you hated your daddy?

Your former student,

Risorgimento Manumission

The filiopiety directed towards the so-called "Founding Fathers" is extremely dangerous and must be eradicated if the grand socialist future is to be realized on earth.

Such oppressors (i.e., the "white men" of whom you speak) only have historical relevancy insofar as they can be pilloried as a class of unctuous, imperialist hypocrites, who contributed nothing to society but misery through the promulgation of the proto-capitalist, individualist ethos.

Palimpsest, did you forget who you are talking to?

I TOOK your classes. I HEARD your nonsense before, and I BELIEVED IT until you gave me a D because I wouldn't fix the ringer on your bicycle, and you gave an A to that dirty whore Virginia because she made it with you in your car.

I had a hard time with the world after what you did. I never had a dad, and I looked at you like a father. I became a drug addict in part because of you.

All your holier than thou crap makes me sick.


To: Non-Person formerly known as "Ris Man"; now, generally referred to as "Jilted Student 47,987"

You were a promising protege indeed, until, you--well, let me pass the mic over to my man, Jihad E; he'll lay some knowledge on you:

Yo! What up? Here's a little freestyle...

You should have kept rollin' with Dr. P.
He's always cookin' up a pimp-ass recipe.
But no,
You had to go
And "manumit" your mind
From the gentle binds
Of the muthafuckin' Party Line.
Such an affront, you know we could not abide!

So suck it up, punk; take in stride,
'Cause the Ivory Tower is RED on the inside!

Thanks for that quintessentially "dope" rhyme, Jihad E.

Oh, and one more thing: I'm not "holier than thou"; I'm "Prolier Than Thou." Make a note of it.

Dr. P out!

This crazy guy Rigormortis has a good point. The names for schools should be people we know. I saw that they were considering naming the school after "Berkeley's late rent-board commissioner, Florence McDonald." First of all, who the F_ck is Flo McDonald? I thought she was the tall-haired whore on Alice. And second of all, I would understand it more if the lady WERE the whore from "Alice." Who names a school after a "rent-board commissioner"? What's next, "Tax Assessor Wiflfor Shmegel Elementary?" "Bureaucrat Seymore T. Lickspittle Public School and Bath-house?" In an age where we have schools named after rent-board members and attack subs named after Jimmy Carter, I must wonder how much time before up is declared down.

I suggest the good people of Berkeley come to a similar solution. Leave the name Jefferson, but change the meaning!

Instead of Thomas Jefferson, oppressor, how about saying the school is named after <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762567/" target="_blank">Louise 'Weezy' Mills Jefferson</a>, enlightened oppressed African-American TV character from the glorious 1970's? Problem solved!


A proactive and creative approach indeed! Nevertheless, the bourgeois surname "Jefferson" is still imbued with the invidious legacy of racism, sexism, imperialism, and Georgian architecture. Consequently, it must be purged before true healing can begin.

--Dr. P

Why don't they just name it Lenin Elementary? It's progressive and equal for everyone! After all, Lenin never did anything bad.

How ironic, the title of my post! You have edited me in the true collective spirit, and have changed the meaning of my post!

The original first sentence was "I suggest the good people of Berkeley come to a more same solution" where SAME was a typo and SANE was the true word of choice!

Your edit:

"I suggest the good people of Berkeley come to a similar solution."

I applaud the propaganda machine for its proactive editing, and hereby declare the edited sentence to be my words exactly! You have reached into my subconscious and yanked out the Jungian sentence of choice!

As for your objection to Jefferson, I see your point. Perhaps we should resort to the tried and true method used for many schools across the nation. Assign a number and eliminate all meaning. The spirited school songs can be maintained. For example:

Here's to our school
We say it proud
We are School Number 103
Proven to shine in every way
Fighting, winning,
seizing every single day
The victory is for School 103
Say loud and clear
School 103
We know we'll always have the victory!

By the by, here is the situation at Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles, clearly a result of the divisive name of the institution (via National Public Radio [next to Air America, the clear People's Choice!]):

</p><blockquote><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/sto ... Id=4682250" target="_blank">Racial Brawls at L.A.'s Jefferson High</a>

News & Notes with Ed Gordon, June 6, 2005 · Campus brawls between blacks and Latinos plague Jefferson High School, a huge campus in south Los Angeles, and scores of students stay home because they say they're afraid to come to class.</blockquote><p>

<b>DAMN YOU JEFFERSON! DAMN YOU TO HELL!</b>

Same Name, Change Meaning wrote:How ironic, the title of my post! You have edited me in the true collective spirit, and have changed the meaning of my post!

The original first sentence was "I suggest the good people of Berkeley come to a more same solution" where SAME was a typo and SANE was the true word of choice!

Dear SNCM,

Thank you for appreciating the esoteric art of "thought editing"--it's a delicate and exactingly precise process that takes years to master. Feel secure in the knowledge that our thought-police technician has "retexted" your phraseology in order to make it conform to the Party's prescribed ideology.

We have already started to implement your suggestion of numbering (instead of naming) our schools. Your rousing "fight song" is currently under revision (see below) as the template for all of our re-education centers...

Here's to our indoctrination center! We say it proud.
But we're just one school in a collective,
And, only together, do we shine through the clouds.

Fighting, winning, seizing every single day.
The victory is for the totalitarian state!
Say it loud and say it clear,
The Party will persevere!

--Captain of the Boulder, Colorado Thought Police

Komrades, I have came up with a better fight song... sing it to the tune of the Notre Dame fight song...

We're here to indoctrinate,
forget the heroes, rewrite their fame!
Proles are calling for health care,
we shall show them that we care!

The founding fathers: great or small,
Ol' Thought Police will rewrite it all
Infidels are digging their way
to Siberi-ia!


For those of you unfamiliar with the evil proletariat song of Notre Dame, here it is:

the CHORUS ONLY of the Notre Dame Fight song
Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame,
Wake up the echos cheering her name,
Send a volley cheer on high,
Shake down the thunder from the sky.
What though the odds be great or small
Old Notre Dame will win over all,
While her loyal sons are marching
Onward to victory.


Koz,

High-ranking Party officials are very disturbed by your pairing of the words "evil" and "proletariat". Surely you meant to write "evil bourgeois song", did you not? Could this have been a Freudian slip? Please clarify at your earliest convenience. You may be guilty of thoughtcrime. If a black maria pulls up outside of your housing development, you will know why.

--The Thought Police


ACLU,

My deepest, and most sincere apologies to the party. I indeed meant to write "evil bourgeois song". I do not understand how such a greivous error could have been made. I will look into this immediately. I have left the error there as a constant reminder to me not to make such an error again. Rest assured komrades, my faithfulness to the party is as pure as the crimson on our bright flag -- much like the bright sun of our future that Stalin saw!

-Koz

Blame Bush

-Kommissar Betty

The Party is still waiting for an explantion...

Hiya guys,

I know I may be on a different political playingfield than you guys, but I love to work conventions. One thing Mr. Thought Police up there said got me thinkin. Would you guys like your own brand of funny jokin? How bout:

"You may be guilty of thoughtcrime if . . ."

Just like my redneck stuff. You know, "You might be a redneck if you get your momma pregnant . . ." etcetera.

For you guys it would be:

"You might be guilty of a thought crime if you think Hillary is a stanky whore" etcetera! Killer stuff!

If you need me for parties and such, please call or fax me at DirtyJoeBob's House o' laughs (it's in the internets just search under "haw haw")

Your buddy

Jeff

--

Comrade Foxworthy,

This is an excellent idea. Which means, of course, that it already existed in the depths the Party's collective consciousness and you simply reminded us about it. But thanks nontheless. We'll be starting a new thread to this effect in the Therapy Meetings section.

- Red Square

I just completed reading this post since I missed it while I was on my operation...man, I didn't realize Dr. Palimpsest could rap!

Oh, yeah, and Comrade Foxworthy did indeed have a great idea with the "you may be guilty of a thoughtcrime if...". Ever considered going to work for the thought police?

Vladimir Ivanov

It was actually, me, Jihad E, who wrote the def rhyme that Dr. P posted above. I'm one his graduate students, but I'm hoping to get a recording contract by bashing America and capitalism. Check out my other tight riff in the People's Competition section:

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=107

Word to the Muthaland!

Jihad E,

Surely you recognize that it was Dr. P's idea all along. By making the rhyme in the other thread, you merely reminded us of what was already on our collective conciousness. We all have the same talent for putting rhymes together, you of course know that. I suggest you curb your enthusasm to take credit for merely reminding us. Such actions show that you have a base need for recognition for work. That is the true mark of capitalism. I expect it not to happen again. I am revoking your bread rations for the day as a reminder to you that such throughtcrime will not be tolerated.

-Komrade Koz

But Koz, progressive academics, journalists, and artists of all sorts are very sensitive about receiving proper attribution for their work. Now, this whole "radical thang" has got me really confused.

Word to the Muthaland?

I think it might be the "thought editing" that is confusing Jihad E.

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