Mississippi School Changes Name From Confederate Leader Jefferson Davis To Barack Obama

We see you Mississippi!!!! Chippin away at the Confederate past one school at a time!!!

The Davis Magnet International Baccalaureate Elementary School in Jackson will be renamed for the former President Barack Obama. We'd love to see the looks of some of the Confederate loving parents, when they have to drop their precious love bugs off at Barack Obama IB Elementary School. (We can dream, can't we!)

 The change takes place next year, PTA President Janelle Jefferson recently announced.

 
That has a very nice ring to it!!! WE APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!!!
 
According to the Huff Post, the decision to change the name also included the community’s opinion, as it should have since the school’s student body is 98 percent Black.
 
WE BETTER HAVE BEEN ASKED WHAT WE THOUGHT!!!
 
“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,” Jefferson told the board during Tuesday’s public meeting.
She added that her students deserve to have a name that “reflect[s] a person who fully represents ideals and public stances consistent with what we want our children to believe about themselves.”

Davis Magnet wasn’t the only school in the area that is up for being renamed--two other schools have a chance as well. The school board gave folks two weeks to come up with a name of a person “of good character and prominence” who has done something to improve the school in “a local or national way.”
 
If the first Black President isn’t the best choice, we don’t know who else would have been!
 
Thankfully, the board president agreed with the community on this one! “I wholeheartedly agree with the name,” Camille Simms said.

Not sure who Jefferson Davis was? Don’t worry you’re not alone!

Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, the Huff Post noted. He was arrested in 1865, and the U.S. government charged him with treason. After being he was sent to prison, he was later released in 1867.

Whatever the case, it’s nice to see Obama’s legacy helping our kids feel better about who they are and seeing themselves as heroes!