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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A prominent law school in San Francisco named for a 19th century rancher who sponsored deadly atrocities against Native Americans has a new name after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation approving the change.
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The University of California’s Hastings College of the Law will be known as the College of the Law, San Francisco.
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The school was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, a wealthy rancher and former chief justice of the California Supreme Court who helped orchestrate and finance campaigns by white settlers in Mendocino County to kill and enslave members of the Yuki Indian tribe.

The legislation also lays out restorative justice initiatives to be pursued by the college, such as renaming a law library with a Native language name, according to a statement from the governor’s office.

Newsom also signed legislation to remove an offensive term for a Native American woman from all geographic features and place names in the state. The U.S. government has removed the offensive term from nearly 650 geographic features, renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands.

Congress directed the Pentagon to abolish all remaining vestiges of the military’s Confederate heritage, and rebrand its nine bases that continue to honor enslavers and secessionists such as Fort Gordon’s namesake.
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In the end, however, the commission chose to go in another direction entirely and rename the base after Eisenhower — bypassing the five Black candidates and other groundbreaking people of color.

That idea gained traction only after last-minute lobbying from some of the meeting’s attendees, according to people familiar with the gathering. Jim Clifford, city administrator for neighboring North Augusta, recalled someone suggesting Eisenhower would be a more desirable alternative and then “pretty much everyone else piled onto that.”

The unexpected outcome has both perplexed and rankled others who believe the selection of a prestigious White man is at best a missed opportunity, and at worst a failure of the renaming commission’s goal to not merely kill off the military’s racist relics but to elevate minorities in the process. Detractors say it looks like a bid to capitalize on Eisenhower’s association with Augusta National, a longtime symbol of racial division that did not admit its first Black member until 1990, nearly six decades after the golf course opened.

In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower launched Operation Wetback, a shameful initiative to remove (often violently) thousands of undocumented workers--mostly Mexican nationals. In what has been described as a "quasi-military operation", border patrol agents, along with state and local law enforcement methodically targeted Mexican-Americans. The result was widespread fear and abuse.

It is estimated that 4,800 people were apprehended on the first day of the military operation. In the end, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) claimed as many as 1,300,000 were deported--many on their own out of fear. There were reports of beatings. Hundreds of families were torn apart.

The Fairfax, Virginia, County Board of Supervisors officially renamed the Lee District as the Franconia District on Tuesday.
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The renaming is the latest action to strip the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from locations around the county. In June 2020, the Fairfax County School Board renamed Lee High School after the late civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
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Many Black and African American residents voiced their concerns of how the long-stay of the name continues a legacy of a time where people were seen as property or a commodity. The name change offers these residents a peace of mind, knowing they can raise their children to be proud residents of “Franconia” and not a township that honors a slaveowner.
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    Lee District Rec Center will be known as the Franconia Rec Center.
    Lee District Park is now called Franconia District Park.
    Lee Residential Permit Parking District is now the Lewis Parking District.
    Lee Community Parking District is now the Franconia Parking District.

Franconia is named after the Franks

the military practices of the Frankish nation in the 6th century and have even been extrapolated to the entire period preceding Charles Martel's reforms

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Matthew Fontaine Maury has been called the ”Pathfinder of the Seas,” ”Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology” and ”Scientist of the Seas.” According to Wikipedia, ”[Maury] published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, which showed sailors how to use the ocean’s currents and winds to their advantage, drastically reducing the length of ocean voyages. Maury’s uniform system of recording oceanographic data was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.”

So Maury is very important in the history of navigation, which ought to be important to the U.S. Navy.

But the Pathfinder of the Seas wasn't woke enough for today's Navy.

It doesn’t matter what Maury accomplished and how it benefited the world, because he served as an envoy of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter took office. He and his family had become staunch John F. Kennedy supporters. Carter remained relatively quiet on the issue at first, even as it polarized much of the county, to avoid alienating his segregationist colleagues.
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Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time of racial discrimination is over",[65] shocking the crowd and causing many of the segregationists who had supported Carter during the race to feel betrayed.
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Civil rights were a high priority for Carter, who added black state employees and portraits of three prominent black Georgians[which?] to the capitol building, angering the Ku Klux Klan.[77]
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Carter sought closer relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), continuing the Nixon administration's drastic policy of rapprochement. The two countries increasingly collaborated against the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration tacitly consented to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. In 1979, Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition to the PRC for the first time. This decision led to a boom in trade between the United States and the PRC, which was pursuing economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.[205] After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter allowed the sale of military supplies to China and began negotiations to share military intelligence.[206] In January 1980, Carter unilaterally revoked the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (ROC), which had lost control of mainland China to the PRC in 1949, but retained control the island of Taiwan.
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During a news conference on March 9, 1977, Carter reaffirmed his interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Korea
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the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan.[237][239] These concerns led to Carter expanding collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which began several months earlier when the CIA started providing some $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen in July 1979.[240]
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on December 28, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan," and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediation."[240]
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Carter has expressed no regrets over his decision to support what he still considers the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan.[239]
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Carter was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978.[198]
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Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best Seller book, published in 2006, generated controversy for his characterization of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be amounting to apartheid. In an interview, he described apartheid to be the "forced separation of two peoples in the same territory with one of the groups dominating or controlling the other."[397] In remarks broadcast over radio, Carter claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's:[398]

    "When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa."[398]

Mr. Carter always subscribed to what my friend Michael Scroccaro calls ‘Underdogma,’ a knew-jerk reaction to champion the cause of the underdog however immoral the party. Poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness. So, if the Israelis have jets and the Palestinians only rockets then that must necessarily mean that the Israelis are the aggressor.

Mr. Carter’s underdog obsession is what motivated him to legitimize Fidel Castro and take his side in a bio-weapons dispute with the United States and to praise North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung with the words: “I find him to be vigorous, intelligent,…and in charge of the decisions about this country.”
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Carter told Haitian dictator Raul Cédras that he was “ashamed of what my country has done to your country,” which made most Americans ashamed of Jimmy Carter.
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Carter’s nonstop criticism of Israel and his emergence – in the words of Alan Dershowitz – as a “cheerleader” for Hamas has confirmed in the minds of many that Carter has more than a bit of a problem with the Jewish state.

Mr. Carter said in 2006 that Israel’s policies in the West Bank were actually worse than apartheid South Africa. He followed  this disgusting libel with his infamous 2009 book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in which he claimed that due to “powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate our media.” We’re skirting awfully close to a protocols-of-Zion style argument here, that the Jews control the media and American foreign policy.

Here’s a priceless clip of Jimmy Carter on the Today Show.

Do you believe Hamas can be trusted?

Yes, I do.

Perhaps the clincher is Mr. Carter’s pronouncement that “the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and the West Bank.” According to Carter, Palestinian terrorism, Iranian nukes, tyrannical Arab governments, and murderous Islamist religious militancy are not the causes for Middle East conflict. No, it’s the Jews.

Boalt Hall is no more! They pulled the signage off the school three years ago, and now the school goes by the nondescript moniker of "UC Berkeley School of Law," or some variant thereof.

The reason for the name change is that the school now has a lot of  "Asian" students, and old Mr. John Henry Boalt is partly blamed for the anti-Chinese immigration campaign back in the 1870s. Boalt once had the audacity to deliver a speech called "The Chinese Question" [PDF] a long-forgotten essay that he read out before the Berkeley Club in 1877. It was later read on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and is said to have contributed to passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act a few years later (1882).

The Chinaman differs from us in color, in features, and
in size. His contact excites in us, or at least in most of us, an uncon-
querable repulsion which it seeems to me must ever prevent any
intimate association or miscegenation of the races. To this must be
added that the difference in physical peculiarities makes the more
conspicuous the many and radical divergencies which. otherwise
exist. Second, the two races are also separated by a remarkable
divergence in intellectual character and disposition. Our habits of
thought are so entirely different that it seems impossible that they
should ever become reconciled.
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He is generally
honest, it is true, but the most prominent Chinese merchant in San
Francisco admitted that his race was honest simply because it was
the best policy, and for no other reason. Now a man who is honest
from the mere force of logic, simply because honesty is generally the
best policy, must inevitably be dishonest in the exceptional case
when dishonesty is the best policy.

The Chinaman in
America cannot comprehend that there is plenty of space. He has
formed a habit of making himself compact and economizing his
room. A hundred Chiniamen are quite content in a house not big
enough for ten of our own race. Their type of a sleeping chamber
is a sardine box.
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It is no argument to tell the American laborer that
if he would live as the Chinaman lives he might subsist on the
Chinaman's wages.
It has taken the Chinaman centuries to learn to live on so little.
With the lapse of time his necessities have gradually accommodated
themselves to his small earnings, until now very little suffices to pro-
cure him abundance. He has made a prodigious stride toward the
ideal ration of a straw per day. Early education and constant habit
have so led him to practice the closest economy, that economy has
itself become a habit and no longer involves self-denial.
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we have taught each other habits that are expensive.
We have led each other to believe that it is a good thing to promote
schools and educate children, to contribute to churches and give to
hospitals, to eat clean food and wear clean clothes. We have encour-
aged each other to think that overcrowding leads to immorality, that
plenty of air and sunlight are necessaries of life
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Until it is changed, the Chinaman will always beat us in
a competition where the frugal habits he learned in China are pitted
against the habits we learned in America. Under the circumstances
it is no more surprising that a Chinaman can live cheaper than an
American than it is that a horse can.

It did so happen that until the Chinese invasion, the class of immi-
grants who came to our shores were, with one exception, welcome
visitors. They were of races and nationalities with which we were
in perfect concord and with whom we could readily assimilate. We
needed them; they came, and twenty-five years after they came,
almost all evidence of their foreign birth had disappeared. They
had become thoroughly assimilated to us, and amalgamated with us,
and were as much Americanized as if born on the soil.
But there was one exception. That exception was the African
Negro. His coming was bitterly regretted by every one of our early
statesmen who ever spoke of it. If you doubt this, examine the
list of members of the African Colonization Society. The pages
shine with eminent names. But the negro did come, and we just
barely survived his coming. Is it worth while to repeat the mistake?

Our enemies report on our success replacing a Western colonialist with an American:

https://vdare.com/posts/pathfinder-of-the-seas-matthew-maury-not-acceptable-for-today-s-navy-annapolis-s-maury-hall-renamed-for-jimmy-carter

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Matthew Fontaine Maury has been called the ”Pathfinder of the Seas,” ”Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology” and ”Scientist of the Seas.” According to Wikipedia, ”[Maury] published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, which showed sailors how to use the ocean’s currents and winds to their advantage, drastically reducing the length of ocean voyages. Maury’s uniform system of recording oceanographic data was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.”

So Maury is very important in the history of navigation, which ought to be important to the U.S. Navy.

But the Pathfinder of the Seas wasn't woke enough for today's Navy.

It doesn’t matter what Maury accomplished and how it benefited the world, because he served as an envoy of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Yes. Carter, in contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

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The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter took office. He and his family had become staunch John F. Kennedy supporters. Carter remained relatively quiet on the issue at first, even as it polarized much of the county, to avoid alienating his segregationist colleagues.
...
Carter was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971. In his inaugural speech, he declared that "the time of racial discrimination is over",[65] shocking the crowd and causing many of the segregationists who had supported Carter during the race to feel betrayed.
...
Civil rights were a high priority for Carter, who added black state employees and portraits of three prominent black Georgians[which?] to the capitol building, angering the Ku Klux Klan.[77]
...
Carter sought closer relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), continuing the Nixon administration's drastic policy of rapprochement. The two countries increasingly collaborated against the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration tacitly consented to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam. In 1979, Carter extended formal diplomatic recognition to the PRC for the first time. This decision led to a boom in trade between the United States and the PRC, which was pursuing economic reforms under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.[205] After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Carter allowed the sale of military supplies to China and began negotiations to share military intelligence.[206] In January 1980, Carter unilaterally revoked the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China (ROC), which had lost control of mainland China to the PRC in 1949, but retained control the island of Taiwan.
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During a news conference on March 9, 1977, Carter reaffirmed his interest in having a gradual withdrawal of American troops from South Korea
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the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was considered a threat to global security and the oil supplies of the Persian Gulf, as well as the existence of Pakistan.[237][239] These concerns led to Carter expanding collaboration between the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which began several months earlier when the CIA started providing some $695,000 worth of non-lethal assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") to the Afghan mujahideen in July 1979.[240]
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on December 28, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan," and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either directly or via third country intermediation."[240]
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Carter has expressed no regrets over his decision to support what he still considers the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan.[239]
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Carter was the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa when he went to Nigeria in 1978.[198]
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Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, a New York Times Best Seller book, published in 2006, generated controversy for his characterization of Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be amounting to apartheid. In an interview, he described apartheid to be the "forced separation of two peoples in the same territory with one of the groups dominating or controlling the other."[397] In remarks broadcast over radio, Carter claimed that Israel's policies amounted to an apartheid worse than South Africa's:[398]

    "When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa."[398]

Here is a rabbi on Carter:

https://observer.com/2014/08/the-moral-disintegration-of-jimmy-carter/

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Mr. Carter always subscribed to what my friend Michael Scroccaro calls ‘Underdogma,’ a knew-jerk reaction to champion the cause of the underdog however immoral the party. Poverty dictates virtue and weakness dictates righteousness. So, if the Israelis have jets and the Palestinians only rockets then that must necessarily mean that the Israelis are the aggressor.

Mr. Carter’s underdog obsession is what motivated him to legitimize Fidel Castro and take his side in a bio-weapons dispute with the United States and to praise North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung with the words: “I find him to be vigorous, intelligent,…and in charge of the decisions about this country.”
...
Carter told Haitian dictator Raul Cédras that he was “ashamed of what my country has done to your country,” which made most Americans ashamed of Jimmy Carter.
...
Carter’s nonstop criticism of Israel and his emergence – in the words of Alan Dershowitz – as a “cheerleader” for Hamas has confirmed in the minds of many that Carter has more than a bit of a problem with the Jewish state.

Mr. Carter said in 2006 that Israel’s policies in the West Bank were actually worse than apartheid South Africa. He followed  this disgusting libel with his infamous 2009 book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” in which he claimed that due to “powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate our media.” We’re skirting awfully close to a protocols-of-Zion style argument here, that the Jews control the media and American foreign policy.

Here’s a priceless clip of Jimmy Carter on the Today Show.

Do you believe Hamas can be trusted?

Yes, I do.

Perhaps the clincher is Mr. Carter’s pronouncement that “the key factor that prevents peace is the continuing building of Israeli settlements in Palestine, driven by a determined minority of Israelis who desire to occupy and colonize east Jerusalem and the West Bank.” According to Carter, Palestinian terrorism, Iranian nukes, tyrannical Arab governments, and murderous Islamist religious militancy are not the causes for Middle East conflict. No, it’s the Jews.

The rabbi's words are the best testimony for Carter deserving American naval buildings named after him.