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Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« on: July 22, 2017, 04:13:14 pm »
Janaki Chadha
The Oregonian
July 21, 2017

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The national movement to change racially offensive names of buildings, sports teams and landmarks will soon touch a group of schools in southeast Portland. Lynch Meadows, Lynch Wood and Lynch View elementary schools will shed their "Lynch" before the upcoming school year in response to growing concern about the word's racial connotations.

The schools, part of the Centennial School District, were named for the Lynch family, which donated land over a century ago to build the first of the schools. But Centennial Superintendent Paul Coakley says many newer families coming into the district associate the name with America's violent racial history.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2017, 04:21:06 pm »
They must reward stupidity in the NE.

Too bad the Lynch family can not take back their land.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2017, 05:24:03 pm »
Hmm, what?
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2017, 05:25:15 pm »
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2017, 05:26:46 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on July 22, 2017, 05:24:03 pm
Hmm, what?


That brings up a great point @mountaineer ..... Had the Lynches in question been a darker shade of pale we would not be having this discussion!
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2017, 05:27:28 pm »
Hmm, what?

Don't I get a pass for being a lesbian?
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2017, 05:44:00 pm »
What I want to know is, Can we still have rope? (Or are they going to smoke it all?)
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2017, 09:53:46 pm »
The new Superintendent of Schools who got his job in February Paul Coakley.

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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2017, 10:43:26 pm »
Once again, a picture is worth a thousand words...
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2017, 10:52:49 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on July 22, 2017, 09:53:46 pm
The new Superintendent of Schools who got his job in February Paul Coakley.



Quote from: Fishrrman on July 22, 2017, 10:43:26 pm
Once again, a picture is worth a thousand words...

Bless his little cotton pickin heart.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #10 on: July 22, 2017, 11:00:29 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 22, 2017, 04:21:06 pm
They must reward stupidity in the NE.

Too bad the Lynch family can not take back their land.

Results according to Ancestry.com .....    Does the very name have racial implications? IDIOCY:  utterly senseless or foolish behavior; a stupid or foolish act, statement, etc.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2017, 12:29:07 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 22, 2017, 04:21:06 pm
They must reward stupidity in the NE.

Too bad the Lynch family can not take back their land.
This is in Oregon, not Maine. But the principle is the same.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2017, 12:46:55 am »
This absolutely proves the mantra that one can see racism in whatever one wishes to.

It is an overstep, and that path being gone done will become very ugly.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2017, 12:53:12 am »
Quote from: threadbender on July 23, 2017, 12:29:07 am
This is in Oregon, not Maine. But the principle is the same.

Yeah...  I meant NW.  Not sure what happened to my fingers... 888high58888
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2017, 02:46:32 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 23, 2017, 12:53:12 am
Yeah...  I meant NW.  Not sure what happened to my fingers... 888high58888
There are similarities in lunacy between the regions.
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Re: Lynch elementary schools will lose the 'Lynch' due to racial implications (Portland, Oregon)
« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2017, 07:02:05 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 22, 2017, 10:52:49 pm
Bless his little cotton pickin heart.

@Wingnut

You know damned well that guy is too proud to pick the cotton out of the top of an aspirin bottle.
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