Californication

 

When I was growing up California was the land of bright lights and the path to fame and fortune.  It was the ideal place to live a life in a state which has amazing weather, access to beaches, and an overall easy life.  As I have grown I have seen the slow decay of this once great state.  Sure the politics in California was always somewhat left leaning but it was limited to San Francisco, Los Angeles and very few other major metropolitan cities.  In my forty-one years on Earth I have seen the spread of far left woke liberalism infect the very fabric of this beautiful place.  The picture in this blog is just one example of where I feel they have gone way off the map.  It is a picture of "drag queen" story hour at a local library in California.  In essence a man dressed in drag goes to a local library and reads books which encourage the LGBTQIA+ lifestyle and make it a normal thing.  As you can see these kids range in age from toddlers to pre-teens.  

So why am I writing this blog today you might ask.  The answer is simple, the California school names advisory committee released a spreadsheet of 42 schools in the state they wanted to rename and the reasons behind the need for change.  In the Los Angeles Times article it says "The renaming committee began its presentation with an homage to the Ramaytush Ohlone people, whose homeland is now occupied by the city of San Francisco."  They go on to explain the names of the schools the committee had flagged for removal were chosen "because of alleged associations with slaveholding, colonization or oppression."  The forty-two schools make up a third of all the public schools in San Francisco.  I wanted to highlight some of the names and why they want them removed.

The first name on the list that caught my attention was Abraham Lincoln High School.  The reason they want the change:

"Abraham Lincoln is not seen as much of a hero at all among many American Indian Nations and Native peoples of the United States, as the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to them. For instance, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 helped precipitate the construction of the transcontinental railroad, which led to the significant loss of land and natural resources, as well as the loss of lifestyle and culture, for many Indigenous peoples. In addition, rampant corruption in the Indian Office, the precursor of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, continued unabated throughout Lincoln’s term and well beyond. In many cases, government-appointed Indian agents outright stole resources that were supposed to go to the tribes. In other cases, the Lincoln administration simply continued to implement discriminatory and damaging policies, like placing Indians on reservations. Beginning in 1863, the Lincoln administration oversaw the removal of the Dine' Nation (Navajo) and the Mescalero Apaches from the New Mexico Territory, forcing the Dine' to march the "Long Walk" of 450 miles to Bosque Redondo—a brutal journey. Eventually, more than 2,000 died before a treaty was signed. Also responsible for the Dakota 38+2, largest mass hanging in US history"

In essence he was a racist.

The next name was George Washington High School.  The reason was much simpler, "slave owner, colonizer" that was it.  No further explanation needed I guess.  Lowell High School is next.  Named after James Russell Lowell.  The LA Times states "He was an abolitionist but depicted Black people unfavorably in his writings."  So again the reason, he is a racist.  Everett Middle school named after Senator Edward Everett.  The spreadsheet reasoning is "His pro-slavery stance was unpopular with his constituents."  Racist. Herbert Hoover Middle School takes the next hit.  They say "Racist President- accepting of white supremacy. While serving as Secretary of Commerce under white supremacist Wilson, he developed a campaign for exclusionary zoning (which developed into Redlining under the FHA), headed the Better Homes in America org, which pushed for the Federal government to solidify and expand existing segregation in the North and West."  

Roosevelt Middle School names after President Teddy Roosevelt, ""The Richmond School was renamed in honor of Theodore Roosevelt at a school board meeting on February 10, 1910.    Theodore Roosevelt - opposed civil rights and suffrage for Black folks. FDR -  refused to support anti-lynching bill (proposed by his wife) and other racist policies/views (including racial engineering and limiting migration dependent on race). Roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans to concentration camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. As Vox reports, “Japanese American internment is almost universally considered one of the most egregious things the United States has done to an entire ethnic group.” It took a Supreme Court ruling to release the detainees, most of whom could read, write, and speak English, and only a fraction of whom had spent much time in Japan"

You get the picture.  Here are other names on the list that I feel are ridiculous.  Paul Revere K-8, Thomas Edison Charter Academy, Garfield Elementary named after James Garfield, Jefferson Elementary, Fancis Scott Key Elementary, and several other former Presidents.  But don't think the liberals wont eat their own also on the list are Willie L. Brown Jr. middle School.  Of him they say "Responsible for much of gentrification in SF while he was mayor" and Dianne Feinstein Elementary "Manilatown, she's responsible for the eviction of a whole Pilipino neighborhood, and the police brutality, allowed police dogs to attack Filipino veteran elders. She repeatedly protected and flew the confederate flag in front of sf city hall. https://sfbayview.com/2019/04/its-true-as-san-francisco-mayor-dianne-feinstein-did-repeatedly-fly-a-confederate-flag-in-front-of-city-hall/. Even though this flag was hung before her when a Black activist took it down, she called for his prosecution, and put the confederate flag back up instead of leaving it down. Dianne Fienstien was also again same sex partnership and advocated against same sex partnership/marriage."  Both of those people are not even woke enough for the leftist mob.  

So there it is, anyone who was ever labeled racist, slave owner, colonizer, or any other label the left doesn't like must have every single instance of their names stripped from history.  This is how the left wants it.  And as we saw this summer if they don't get their way they will just tear down the statues or burn the buildings down to get their way.  If you choose to stand opposed and highlight the great works of these men and women then you are also a racist colonizing slave owner and you just refuse to admit it.  I have decided to include a link to the spreadsheet here so you can go see the reasons for yourself and decide which side of the isle you are on.  For me a look back on the good, bad, beautiful and ugly of our history helps us to remember all the strides we have taken and just how great of a nation we have become.  In todays society it is so easy to get bombarded by the name calling, accusations of racism, mockery of our founders, and those who are willing to only point out the "systemic racism" of America.  We as patriots need to stand up and push back against this or we will lose everything.  The final thing I wish to share is something I shared on Facebook and think it perfectly explains why I wanted to write this blog:

THE DAY THE POLICE WERE NO LONGER NEEDED

On August 19, 1966 - Chinese students launched a fight for social justice to fight for the rights of the oppressed in China. It was widely believed that the 'patriarchal system' in China had been created by the 1% and held down women, minorities, and the working class. The students cried out for a revolution and change, and consequentially launched the infamous Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Students put a red band around their arm to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and called for a change on old ideas that they called the FOUR OLDS. The Four Olds were: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.

The movement was supported by the Chinese media.

Mass demonstrations and looting by the students ensued.

Statues were torn down.

Chinese architecture was destroyed.

Classical literature and Chinese paintings were torn apart and burned.

Temples were desecrated.

The Cemetery of Confucius was attacked.

The corpse of the 76th-generation Duke Yansheng was removed from its grave and hung from a tree.

Wealthy homes were attacked and destroyed.

Many families' long-kept genealogy books were burned to ashes.

All of history, in short, was to be removed and replaced. This was the central meaning of Cultural Revolution: That China was going to destroy every trace of its bourgeois (privileged) past and replace it with a new culture built on the principles of Maoism and Marxism.

Communist leaders like President Liu Shaoqi were taken out of power and replaced with men Mao believed were not critical of his reign.

Public leaders who were considered to be oppressive were tried by angry mobs and vigilantes.

Three days later, August 22, 1966, a central directive was issued to stop police intervention. The police were disbanded in the city and the students formed a community solution called the RED GUARD. The RED GUARDS policed the communities and punished anyone who did not agree with their ideas. Even people that supported the movement, but had bad thoughts ("wrong thinking") could be punished.

Though many Christians supported the movement in the beginning, they quickly became the number one target of the RED GUARDS and public trials were held to condemn them to death.

Many of those that were on board with the cause of the rebellion, in the beginning, saw that it was not really what they had signed up for, but by then it was too late. The power that the Red Guard wanted had already been given.

More people died during the cultural revolution in China than any war, famine, or natural disaster in the history of man. An estimated 20 to 30 million people were killed."

This is why it is important.  You can substitute America or United States for China in this and see a very real and scary reflection of what is happening today.  Please lets love one another, unite against a common evil, and begin to show the world through example that we still are the greatest nation in the world.