Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Berkeley school in need of divine being

Berkeley people want to rename Thomas Jefferson Elementary School because the man owned slaves. In fact, that's all he did, own and screw slaves.

According to the SF Gate article:
Contenders for the new name included Ralph Bunche, the African American diplomat at the United Nations who was the first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize; farmworker organizer Cesar Chavez; and Florence McDonald, the late Berkeley city councilwoman, leftist political leader and mother of singer Country Joe McDonald.

These people did not own slaves, therefore they are appropriate candidates.

I attended Salinas High. Salinas smells like shit all the time from the fertilizer they use on the fields. Although slavery is now illegal, I seem to recall that the labor used to make the town "the lettuce capital of the world" came pretty darn cheap and illegally. Of course, having even attended a school with such embarassing, shameful implications has left me an emotionally crippled ninny. I move to rename it, Saint Jenn High School, because I am darned near perfect.

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