**Trump is going to flip over this and go full kkk**

[SummerSnow]

Mississippi school named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be renamed after Obama

ARIS FOLLEY, AOL.COM
Oct 18th 2017 3:16PM

An elementary school in Jackson, Mississippi, will be renamed after President Barack Obama instead of its original namesake, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, leaders announced Tuesday.

Janelle Jefferson, president of the Parent Teacher Association at Davis Magnet IB, said the decision was made earlier this month after school stakeholders voted to rename the school Barack Obama Magnet IB, The Clarion Ledger reported.

“Jefferson Davis, although infamous in his own right, would probably not be too happy about a diverse school promoting the education of the very individuals he fought to keep enslaved being named after him,” Janelle Jefferson told the outlet, which also noted that 98 percent of the students who attended the school this year are black.

According to the local paper, the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees approved a policy that permitted the PTA and Davis community with the control to rename the school. Mississippi Today reported that staff, parents and students were able to submit name ideas to the PTA and later voted to name the school after the former president on Oct. 5.

Janelle Jefferson said the community wanted to rename the school “to reflect a person who fully represents ideals and public stances consistent with what we want our children to believe about themselves.”

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/18/mississippi-school-named-after-confederate-president-jefferson-davis-to-be-renamed-after-obama/23247932/

[lame54]

1. I was hoping he would cut the ribbon

[Mediumsizedhand]

2. Lol, maybe. I like what they are doing. Poetic.

[Grammy23]

3. I was born and raised the first 14 years of my life in Jackson, Ms.

I am so proud of my hometown for taking this step! It is not erasing our history. It is replacing the school name with someone the students can be proud of. Davis has his place in history. That cannot be changed. But he was wrong and should not be honored for his beliefs and what he fought for. We are finally, as a nation, making a positive step to accept our history, even with flaws and mistakes, but not honor those who turned against the United States. They left our Union to fight against the Union. It makes no sense to act like that never happened and bestow a place of honor on the people who led the betrayal.

So the mistake will be corrected and a more suitable name will grace this elementary school. The students who go there can look with pride at the person their school honors.

[jbeing]

10. What a wonderful thing to say

And a great way to accept the sad past while moving forward to a better future.

As for Trump: The walls are closing in. Just wait until Putin tires of him. We here in the U.S. already have.

[Pluvious]

18. Thank you for sharing

We still have so much "growing up" to do, as a culture.

Sadly at best it will take many more generations yet...

[KentuckyWoman]

21. One of the most beautiful posts I have ever read. Thank you. Eom

[Grammy23]

22. Thank you!

Just felt like I needed to jot down a few thoughts on the name change, given the world we live in right now. We need good things to get us through these difficult times with tRump.

[PearliePoo2]

4. It's going to piss him off royally, especially since...

there will NEVER be a school named after donald!
Well, there was Trump University, but he got his ass sued off for that con job!

K&R

[jmowreader]

8. I'm not too certain about that

There are plenty of schools at youth prisons that aren't named for anyone yet.

[Dem_4_Life]

20. LOL Reminds me of when they build Barbara Bush Elem

And the other teachers in the district would say "did you see the mascot is a bulldog ... and it looks like Barbara Bush" LOL!!!

I can only imagine what the mascot would be at Trump Elementary....

[tclambert]

23. Maybe Trump Elementary, home of the Fighting Tangerines.

Or the Terrifying Tweeters?

[KentuckyWoman]

27. Slug

But it would be an insult to the slugs.

[knightmaar]

5. That's great ... now about the state flag flying over the school.

[YOHABLO]

6. In Jackson Mississippi? Now that's progress. There is hope. Take that Donny.

[Ligyron]

7. Maybe one day they'll rename the town?

Hey, it could happen.

[Lucinda]

14. +1

[HAB911]

9. We need to go on full court press to name things after Obama

like they did with Ronnie Rayguns

[lagomorph777]

11. On the bright side, Dotard J. Turd, they did name something after you:

the school's dumpster, out back.

[Grammy23]

12. Wait until he figures out no school will EVER

want his name plastered on anything, except maybe the toilet.

[lagomorph777]

16. I think Liberty University will probably name a hall after him.

And Anal Roberts University will embroider his name on the cheerleaders' undies.

[uponit7771]

13. lofl ... cause he's only gone 5/8 th's kkk now ... lol

[Lucinda]

15. Well done Jackson Mississippi!

[SergeStorms]

17. You are correct.

That is going to frost Trump's flakes. And he can't sign a "presidential" order to rescind the decision either. He'll probably have his "nice" white supremacist buddies blow the school up, but only after all the white children have been removed. It wouldn't be beneath him. Nothing is beneath Trump. He is the definitive bottom of the barrel.

[Dem_4_Life]

19. LOL Way to to Jackson Mississippi

[onit2day]

24. Jefferson Davis asked that they build no monuments to him

[geardaddy]

25. Looks like they already changed the name in Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Public_School_District#Elementary_Schools_.28Grades_Pre-K.2FK-5.29

[Initech]

26. I can't wait to see the heads explode on Hannity and Fox & Friends.