A father’s petition to change the name of a high school named after a hate group, after much resistance, the school board is considering changing the name of the high school.
Imagine that in 2013 a majority black high school is named after a KKK member, who would have killed those kids because of the color of his skin if the year had been 1930.
Huffington Post reported in September that the petition for Nathan B. Forest High School to change its name had more than 90,000 signatures.
The school board declared that they would not change the school’s name despite it being named after a slave owner and grand wizard of the racist and brutalizing gang known as the KKK. The KKK pleaded with the school board to not change the name.
However, the school board’s sentiments have changed, due to the attention that the school has come under.
The petition was started by Omotayo Richmond, a father whose daughter is in the Duval County Public School system, who refused to allow his daughter to attend the high school named after a Klansman.
“I believe it’s outrageous that this could even be questioned by anybody … that anybody could even come to the defense of this man.”
ABC News reported that the school is considering changing the name of the high school.
Richmond started an online petition on Change.org, but board member Connie Hall submitted a formal letter seeking the changing of the name of the high school before the school board decided to listen.