CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY WMAL MAY 18, 2022
EACH DAY THERE SEEMS TO BE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE OFF THE RAILS, TO INVOKE AN OLD RAILROAD SAYING.
IN A WALL STREET JOURNAL COLUMN TUESDAY, AUTHOR JOSEPH EPSTEIN BEMOANED AN EFFORT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF A CHICAGO GRAMMAR SCHOOL HE ATTENDED AS A CHILD. THE SCHOOL WAS LONG AGO NAMED AFTER PIONEER DANIEL BOONE, WHO HAS BEEN IMMORTALIZED NOT ONLY IN HISTORY, BUT IN FILMS AND A SUCCESSFUL TV SHOW.
GUESS WHY LIBERAL ACTIVISTS WANT TO CHANGE THE NAME? IT’S BECAUSE THEY SAY BOONE APPARENTLY KEPT SEVEN SLAVES AND TOOK OVER LANDS BELONGING TO WHAT WE USED TO REFER TO AS INDIANS, BEFORE THEY BECAME INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
FOR BOONE’S SINS, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE OF EQUITY – AND DON’T YOU LOVE THE NAME –HAS DECIDED BOONE IS “A HISTORICALLY EGREGUIOUS FIGURE” AND THUS CAN’T BE ALLOWED TO HAVE A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER HIM.
THE LEFT IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW WAYS TO ERASE OUR HISTORY AND TO APPEAR MORAL, WHILE FAVORING THINGS, LIKE ABORTION, THAT ARE IMMORAL. DANIEL BOONE’S REPUTATION WILL SURVIVE. I’M NOT SURE THE SCHOOL WILL, OR SHOULD. WISH I STILL HAD MY COONSKIN HAT. I’M CAL THOMAS
