Don t show me this message again✕ U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are represented at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, with this image being taken during a visit from former President Donald Trump on 3 July, 2020. Schools named after Washington and Lincoln are set to have their names changed. (AFP via Getty Images)
The school board of the San Francisco Unified School District has agreed to move ahead with a plan to change the names of more than 40 schools that currently honour presidents and other historical figures. They include George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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The Christopher Columbus statue near Coit Tower was vandalized. Red paint covered the face of the controversial colonist, while the base of the statue had graffiti that read Destroy all monuments of genocide and kill all colonizers. It s anger and vitriol as oppose to facts and truth whether it s good history or bad history, expressed Lope Yap, Jr. the Vice President of the Washington High School Alumni Association. Washington High is also on the list. Yap is against removing a controversial mural located in the school s lobby which shows the history of America depicting slavery and a murdered Native American.