In 2005, a bunch of community activists at Berkeley, California tried to force the local

school board to change the name of Jefferson Elementary School.

Berkeley was radical, wacko, leftist back then, but the idea getting rid of the name Jefferson

Elementary was just too extreme, even for the liberal school board back then.

Now, how times have changed. Last week, the Berkeley Unified School District Board approved

a resolution in supported Black Lives Matter. And as a result of the unanimous vote, Jefferson

Elementary will get its name changed. Thomas Jefferson is out of there, and a school named for

George Washington, Washington Elementary will also get its name changed. Now, never mind that George

Washington was the father of our country who led America through Revolutionary War that changed

the world for the cause of liberty and freedom. Never mind. That Washington did what few would do.

He gave up power. They wanted to make him king. He said no. Never mind that Thomas Jefferson's role

in writing the Declaration of Independence, his service as our first Secretary of State or his

own historic presidency. Both these guys were slaveholders, and that is enough reason to

stamp out their names. Our history means nothing to leftist. The only thing that matters to them

is erasing it. They don't know that they really can't.