While reading out a Wikipedia entry on the beliefs of 19th-century poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell, a committee member stated that “he did not want Black people to vote.” In point of fact, a scholarly biography of the high school’s namesake states that the he “unequivocally advocated giving the ballot to the recently freed slaves.”.So, regardless of the political bent of Families for San Francisco, we can know that: And we can do our own subsequent research. So we don’t need to take their word for it. They link directly to the Zoom meetings of the renaming committee, and to its spreadsheet, where the Wikipedia entries justifying the committee’s actions are cited. But, in this report, they showed their work. You also should proceed with caution with any declarations from this particular organization its forbear, Parents PAC, was routinely a conduit for big-money independent expenditures from moderate, downtown donors and took its fair share of money from the Police Officers Association.
Should you inherently trust any group claiming to speak for “the families” - or “the children” or “the people”? No. Lincoln cabinet during the first read of the Emancipation Proclamation.Ībsent charred wreckage and a black box, the best thing we’ve got to sum up the problems with the school district’s renaming committee is a report from the group Families for San Francisco. It’s a hell of a message to send to the parents and students of Remote School 1, Remote School 2, and so on. This remarkably flawed process, combined with the relative expediency the district has demonstrated in moving to change some one-third of its school names, stands in stark contrast to the sclerotic nature of nearly every other SFUSD-related matter.
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