Political Correctness run amok

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BERKELEY -- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School might change its name because the third U.S. president was a slave owner

The list of the names they want to use.

The possibilities include Ralph Bunche, the black diplomat at the United Nations who won the Nobel Peace Prize, and farmworker organizer Cesar Chavez.

Followed up by this brilliant statement

"It's very clear that the name is offensive to a significant part of the population," said Marguerite Talley-Hughes, who sent her three children to Thomas Jefferson, adding that she thinks it's reasonable to want a name that is not offensive to some in the community.

What Mr. Bunche got his Peace prize for:

From June of 1947 to August of 1949, Bunche worked on the most important assignment of his career - the confrontation between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. He was first appointed as assistant to the UN Special Committee on Palestine, then as principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission, which was charged with carrying out the partition approved by the UN General Assembly. In early 1948 when this plan was dropped and fighting between Arabs and Israelis became especially severe, the UN appointed Count Folke Bernadotte as mediator and Ralph Bunche as his chief aide. Four months later, on September 17, 1948, Count Bernadotte was assassinated, and Bunche was named acting UN mediator on Palestine. After eleven months of virtually ceaseless negotiating, Bunche obtained signatures on armistice agreements between Israel and the Arab States.

Guess he achieved "peace in our time". How well is that Isreali/Palestinian treaty doing?