<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Yes, the Dallas Independent School District is “researching” Benjamin Franklin’s connections to the Confederacy.</i></b></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.1px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Dallas ISD “Investigating” Benjamin Franklin’s “Connection to the Confederacy”</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">September 18, 2017 by <a href="http://www.educationviews.org/author/frontpagemag/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #021eaa" class="">FrontPage Mag</span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">As the Cultural Revolution to stamp out the Confederacy (not to mention Columbus) and all of America history continues, anyone can be a member of the Confederacy. Because this culture war being waged by the left against America is being run by angry, racist functional illiterates.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And so onward to Dallas where the Dallas Independent School District has posted a list of schools it will rename because of the Confederacy, including schools named after Stonewall Jackson and General Lee.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And there’s the second list.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">“The schools listed below will require further research as their connection to the Confederacy varies,”</b> <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/359106039/List-of-Schools-for-Possible-Renaming#from_embed" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""> the second list states.</span></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">That list includes…</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">James <a href="http://www.educationviews.org/dallas-isd-investigating-benjamin-franklins-connection-confederacy/#" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">Madison High</span></a> School</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thomas Jefferson High School</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Benjamin Franklin Middle School</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Yes, the Dallas Independent School District is “researching” Benjamin Franklin’s connections to the Confederacy.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Not only is this culture war an insult to America. It’s being waged by individuals who are completely ignorant of the most basic history. Who think that Benjamin Franklin was around during the Civil War.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Here, let me educate the Dallas Independent School District.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Benjamin Franklin – Deceased – 1790</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thomas Jefferson – Deceased – 1826</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">James Madison – Deceased – 1836</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Confederacy – Formed 1861</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">If the DISD can find a <a href="http://www.educationviews.org/dallas-isd-investigating-benjamin-franklins-connection-confederacy/#" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">calculator</span></a>, they should (hopefully) be able to do the math on this in less than 2 hours. Or the taxpayer’s money back.)</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The only thing this list demonstrates is that everyone involved in it should be working <a href="http://www.educationviews.org/dallas-isd-investigating-benjamin-franklins-connection-confederacy/#" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">checkout</span></a> at McDonald’s. If they can handle it.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“This was just a very quick review of looking at the biographies of the individuals,” DISD chief of <a href="http://www.educationviews.org/dallas-isd-investigating-benjamin-franklins-connection-confederacy/#" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">school leadership</span></a> Stephanie Elizalde told trustees on September 14. <b class="">“And if there was any association with Confederacy—not making a judgment for or against— just if we saw Confederacy named in it, we then highlighted it. We are now in the process of doing a second [look].”</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let’s make some judgements.<b class=""> If you don’t know when Franklin or Jefferson lived, not only should you not be in the position of being able to rename schools, there should be a court ruling to force you to stay at least 200 feet away from the educational system at all times.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Stephanie Elizalde has been touted as an educator. How can you be an educator when you know less than a first grader from 1952?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Our “educators” know left-wing talking points and nothing else. They’re ignorant and dangerous.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">But this whole culture war and its social justice crybullies are perfectly epitomized by a Franklin quote. “Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The left is evil, treacherous and malicious because it’s too dumb to be decent.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Source: <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><i class=""><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267909/dallas-investigating-benjamin-franklins-connection-daniel-greenfield" class="">Dallas “Investigating” Benjamin Franklin’s “Connection to the Confederacy” | Frontpage Mag</a></i></span></span></p><div class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>