When Slate debuted a feature called “80 Over 80” more than a decade ago, we had two goals in mind: to poke fun at America’s obsession with early achievers (and the 30 Under 30 industrial complex) and point to the lasting influence of octogenarians on American society. In 2008, John Paul Stevens topped the inaugural list.
We brought the feature out of retirement this year because the power of the geriatric set in politics, in Hollywood, in culture writ large has never been clearer. America just elected its oldest president ever. Joe Biden, who bested one septuagenarian to win the primary and another to win the general election, will turn 80 before the midpoint of his term. The speaker of the House turned 80 this year. She’s joined by 11 other octogenarians in the House and seven in the Senate. Old money, in every sense, continues to have a disproportionate impact on the electoral process. But today’s most powerful 80-year-olds are everywhere in the arts, business, academia,
San Fran schools purge Washington, Lincoln, others, but keep the commie
San Francisco plans to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because the former president did not demonstrate that ‘black lives mattered to him,’ The Daily Mail reported. Lincoln only gave his life for Black lives.
A woke renaming committee also plans to ditch Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein, Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, and other American heroes.
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San Francisco Unified School District’s renaming committee decided Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed.
According to them, Lincoln is no hero because Native Americans don’t like him or his policies.
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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