Abraham Lincoln didn’t do enough for black lives, according to militant proponents of the woke revolution.
In October, the San Francisco Unified School District School Names Advisory Committee suggested a list of school names to be replaced in the city. On that list was a school named after Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.
In just a few years, the discussion about history and monuments has gone from
whether we should keep Confederate monuments to erasing the president who orchestrated the Confederacy’s destruction.
Regarding Lincoln, it seems the woke and John Wilkes Booth are now in alignment.
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This isn’t a slippery slope, it’s a freefall without a parachute.
A recent
report by the San Francisco Chronicle that has been making the rounds illuminates just how bad things have become in some education circles.
“Lincoln is one of dozens of historical figures who, according to a school district naming committee, lived a life so stained with racism, oppression or human rights violations, they do not deserve to have their name on a school building,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Part of the criticism of Lincoln is about how he treated Native Americans badly, particularly the Sioux tribe. This has always been an
unfair charge, but he was simply added to the renaming committee’s list without debate.
According to the committee chairman, this isn’t the only reason for abandoning Lincoln.
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties or wealth building,” Jeremiah Jefferies, the chairman of the renaming committee and a first-grade teacher, told the Chronicle.
Lincoln conducted a war, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and got shot in the head for black lives, but this wasn’t enough to keep him from being unceremoniously ditched by modern social justice warriors.
If Lincoln doesn’t qualify as doing enough for black lives, then who does?
I
wrote about this whole San Francisco schools travesty when their list was released. The
extensive criteria was clearly designed to appeal to the most fervently woke:
- Anyone directly involved in the colonization of people.
- Slave owners or participants in enslavement.
- Perpetuators of genocide or slavery.
- Those who exploit workers/people.
- Those who directly oppressed or abused women, children, queer, or transgender people.
- Those connected to any human rights or environmental abuses.
- Those who are known racists and/or white supremacists and/or espoused racist beliefs.
The bottom line is that the war on history is ultimately about political power and iconoclasm. It’s about tearing down 1776 and replacing it with the narrative of the 1619 Project. The message has little to do with actual history, it’s simply: “Do what we say, or you will be smashed and erased.”
Symbols of opposition will be torn down. You must accept our truth, or else.
Targeting Feinstein sends a clear message that the revolution shall be subject to no law. It’s a warning to public officials not to stop or fix the damage
done by mobs and vandals to statues, monuments, and public property.
This is entirely consistent with the
ideology of leading “anti-racists,” like Ibram X. Kendi. The world is divided into anti-racists and racists. Every act, every decision, and every person must be put through this lens. Absolute anarchy and absolute
tyranny are perfectly acceptable if one remains on what woke intellectuals and officials deem the “right side of history.”
The idea that canceling Lincoln, or any of the other people on the San Francisco Unified School District list, will lead to tolerance or a better society is a joke. If anything, it teaches students to be ruthlessly intolerant, to be utterly incapable of understanding different perspectives and the limitations of human nature.
Perhaps this is the point.
But human civilization wasn’t built by angels, and it certainly wasn’t built by revolutionary Marxists, who have been much more successful at tearing down in a tide of inhuman carnage than building up.
Unfortunately, absurd militant wokeness is not just confined to San Francisco, it’s coming to
schools and institutions around the country.
No wonder Americans are increasingly worried about the rise of socialism.
