Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Anyone checked on Washington DC and Washington State? He was anti English for start...............
Well, there has been a few people calling for Washington State to be renamed although so far it's just a small (but very vocal) minority. There was an op-ed in the Washington Post about a week ago by a student of George Washington University who wanted the name of the school changed because having it named after a one time slave holder was 'triggering'. Apparently it was totally lost on this snowflake that her editorial was being published by a paper named after that particular slave holder, located in a city named after that slave holder
Of course they could use the trick that King County used (King County is were Seattle and some of the surrounding communities are located). After it was determined that King County was named after a guy that owned slaves, they decided King County was named after Martin Luther King (ignoring the fact that it had been called King County well before MLK was even born). Maybe they could say Washington State was named after Booker T...
Sometimes I want to remind all those people intent on erasing history of that old nugget - 'Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it'.