Woke San Francisco school board president, 30, defends plan to rename schools which honor racist leaders despite basing decisions on INCORRECT Wikipedia articles
San Francisco school board president Gabriela López has pushed back at claims that schools being renamed in the district were selected in a haphazard way
The board voted last month to rename 44 schools that currently honor historical leaders who have since been branded by activists as racist
The list includes Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
Residents and historians were angered after it emerged that some of the names were selected on inaccurate information
It came after the renaming committee refused to consult historians
Historians slam woke teacher responsible for renaming 44 San Francisco schools after it emerges he used WIKIPEDIA for research to denounce Paul Revere and ridiculed idea of consulting scholars
This week, the San Francisco Board of Education voted 6-1 to rename 44 of 125 of the city s public schools
The decision came three years after a committee was formed to study the names of the schools, which honor prominent figures from American history
The committee declared that schools named after politicians including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Dianne Feinstein should be rebranded
They concluded that such personalities were problematic and had ties to racist incidents
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A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because of his treatment of Native Americans. Pictured Abraham Lincoln High School
The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.
Other names include George Washington, Herbert Hoover and Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose name will be stripped from the Dianne Feinstein Elementary School for allowing the Confederate flag to fly outside City Hall back in 1984 when she was mayor.
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San Francisco Unified School District s renaming committee decided Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed
Under his watch, Indigenous peoples had much of their land taken from them through the 1862 Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act
In 1864, the Lincoln administration oversaw the deportation of the Navajo tribe from their land in Arizona to march a brutal 450 mile journey to New Mexico
Lincoln was also behind the largest mass hanging in US history, where 38 Dakota men were condemned to death in Minnesota in 1862
But Lincoln also abolished slavery in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation
44 of the 125 schools in the San Francisco Unified School District to be renamed
San Francisco Unified School District s renaming committee decided Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed
Under his watch, Indigenous peoples had much of their land taken from them through the 1862 Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act
In 1864, the Lincoln administration oversaw the deportation of the Navajo tribe from their land in Arizona to march a brutal 450 mile journey to New Mexico
Lincoln was also behind the largest mass hanging in US history, where 38 Dakota men were condemned to death in Minnesota in 1862
But Lincoln also abolished slavery in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation
44 of the 125 schools in the San Francisco Unified School District to be renamed