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[David Lockmiller]

(10-11-2022 12:20 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Another Lincoln statue has been vandalized.

https://abc7chicago.com/abraham-lincoln-.../12312823/

The news announcer did more damage with his limited comment that followed the facts of the news report:

"A statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park was targeted by anti-colonizer activists Monday. The group dumped red paint on the statue and spray painted "Avenge the Dakota 38" on the ground. The graffiti messages 38 Native Americans who were hanged by the United States government in 1862 over a land dispute in what is now Minnesota. President Lincoln approved the death sentences."

That last sentence is essentially what the members of the San Francisco School Board said of President Lincoln's actions regarding the "Dakota 38" and their basis for renaming Abraham Lincoln High School here in San Francisco.

Professor Burlingame came to the rescue with his email on the "Dakota 38" that I forwarded to the members of the San Francisco School Board members BEFORE their vote to rename.