Jacqueline Logwood grew up in Fullerton, finishing elementary, high school and high school. Throughout his school years, he went to the Louis E. Plummer Auditorium about twice a year, watching plays and watching his brothers perform on variety monitors on stage.
When she learned on June 4 that the auditorium, built in 1930 and indexed on the National Register of Historic Places, was named after an imaginable member of ku Klux Klan, she was angry and mortified.
“I didn’t want an auditorium I grew up in (frequenting) to have the name of a KKK member,” he said in an interview.
Logwood took care of that. It has announced a petition Change.org to remove the call from the auditorium, and to date has obtained more than 31,000 signatures.
On June 16, the Fullerton Joint Union High School District, owner of the building, voted unanimously to remove “Plummer” from the auditorium name. On June 19, or “Juneteenth,” “Louis E. Plummer” disappeared.
This is one of the symptoms that times are making Odiversity County in 2020. The elimination of the so-called Plummer in the auditorium, a difficulty that has been a source of controversy for years, occurred in less than 3 weeks and 18 years. former student to lead the recent effort.
“I’m very proud of myself,” said Logwood, a new sophomore at UC Riveraspect who is an African-American component and Filipino component. “My parents were very proud of me. Overall, they supported me. Personally, it prompted me to do more.
Logwood’s delight is just one of those who reveled in his position for the past two months in Odiversity County, the state and the country. This month, the Fanning Academy of Science and Technology moved his call to the Falcon Academy of Science and Technology, and his best friend got rid of “Fanning” of his call. William E. Fanning Elementary School was originally the best friend named after a member of a KKK location.
After the shocking assassination of George Floyd of the police on Memorial Day in Minneapolis, there was a radical revival in the United States, and the waves also spread to other countries.
Across the United States, other Americans protest institutional inequalities and criticize the modification of buildings, statues, and monuments bearing the names of ancient or perceived oppressors, and those who supported white supremacy. Statues of infantrymen and Confederate generals were shot down in the south, and statues of conqueror Juan de O’et were demolished in New Mexico and the southwestern United States. In Ventura, the city council voted last week to remove a statue of Father Jun-but Serra from the city center. The Confederacy flag has been banned in NASCAR and is being removed from the Mississippi state flag.
Native American pets and team calls have also been changed, adding the Washington Redskins, which have kept the call for decades. People have even tried to top down the statue of President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C., his bad therapy with Native Americans from the early to mid-19th century.
Here in Odiversity County, Plummer Auditorium and Fanning Academy of Science and Technology are the obstacle to falling into the movement. The latest recent debate that erupted at John Wayne Airport, named after the mythical actor who died in 1979. Known for making racist and homophobic comments in his life, he added in a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine.
This fight for names represents profigured changes in culture, demographics, and attitudes in a county that was once predominantly white, resolutely Republican and conservative, but has undergone primary demographic changes over the past generation.
The unearthed and discussed questions raise the following questions: What are our values? Who do we prefer to have gender in? Is it time to throw away or dismantle the old heroes when the time changes?
As Odiversity County’s demographics continue to evolve, with other Americans of color and Democrats now representing the majority, the debate never moves away. It has intensified and recently caused genuine changes and disruptions.
“Things are repositioned very quickly,” said Mike Rodriguez, an instructor and activist who lives in Fullerton and teaches hitale and ethnic studies in the Santa Unified School District. “There have been huge apple replenishments in Odiversity County for the past four years. We had the blue wave. Ronald Reagan said that’s where the (good) Republicans are going to die. We also have an emerging population of other Americans of color in Odiversity County.
“People fight the racism we’ve seen in this county. There is an expanding population of other Americans of color. We can no longer live under this veil.”
The great effort to remove “Plummer” from Plummer Auditorium led directly to the withdrawal of “Fanning” from the Fanning Academy of Science and Technology, former William E. Fanning Elementary School.
Vivian Gray, a 17-year-old African-American graduate of the 17th-year-old school who wrote a petition about Change.org to remove Fanning’s name. It has received more than 3,000 signatures.
Of course, this is not a new problem. Efforts were made to remove “Fanning” from the school call for years. First, the crusade called “Rename Fanning”, then became the North Odiversity County Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Project.
In January 2019, the Brea Olinda Unified School District Board raised the issue, but voted 4-1 to keep Fanning’s name. The board attempted to deactivate the components by renaming William E. Fanning Elementary School as the Fanning Academy of Science and Technology.
But that’s not enough for the masses of local citizens. After Fullerton’s board voted to remove “Plummer” in June, Gray held a conference call with Logwood and others. Gray, cheerfully through Fullerton, made a great effort to release his petition, and at the Brea School Board assembly on June 25, dozens of local citizens submitted comments, once they called for the removal of the Fanning name.
“Well, surely he encouraged it through the Black Lives Matter motion, ” said Gray about his request. She lives in Los Angeles, but traveled to Brea Olinda High School from grades nine to twelve for several hours at noon because it is considered a tight school, larger than her Los Angeles neighborhood.
“I had to step in and say something,” he said. “I went to college in Brea. I felt like they kept that call at school, it’s not right. I saw other Americans riding stikas and other Americans saying it was okay. It’s not right.”
On July 2, Fanning’s circle of surviving relatives submitted a letter to the Brea board of administrators requesting that Fanning’s call be removed as it was in line with a major distraction. That’s pretty much the last nail in the coffin.
On July 7, the Brea Olinda School Board voted unanimously to remove the so-called Fanning. The school will now be referred to as the Falcon Academy of Science and Technology.
“I was very surprised, ” said Gray when he heard the news. “I just opened my phone and they gave me that message bureaucracy. I’m very grateful to the Fanning family, even assuming they refute that I was with the KKK. I was surprised. He was an unexpected great friend. I didn’t. 1000000 years this was going to happen.
A few weeks apart, two major intellectual changes occurred in Odiversity County schools. They were driven through a 17-year-old woguy and an 18-year-old African-American. Both announced petitions, made extensive use of social media and helped bring down old names about the change.
This is the kind of repositioning that Apple people haven’t witnessed in our lives. Other Americans in Odiversity County may not appreciate a quick and dramatic replenishment.
But Gray believes the time has come for replenishment and sees strength and prospects in today’s youth.
“I feel like we did what the adults couldn’t,” he said. “The younger ones have been given that voice. And we also know how to exploit social media. To the younger generations, they appreciate us, to see what they deserve to do.”
“This can be our world. We have to take the issues into our own hands, demonstrate in another way. At the end of the day, it’s up to us.”
We can also set this up as a vintage western with an elegant twist. Imagine lamps and cameras installed at the bright and award-winning airport that stretches on horseback between Santa Ana, Newport B and Irvine, with legendary actor John Wayne as the protagonist and as a villain.
On the one hand, the hot guard who dreams of the call, John Wayne Airport, changed, and the 9-foot statue withdrew. On the other hand, the old guard who wants to keep the call and the executive bronze figure intact.
As enemy forces gather, Wayne continues to observe the main terminal with a slight smile and a cold, imperturbable look on his eyes, which are wrinkling at the edges. His giant bronze cowboy hat is slightly tilted forward and a gun hangs from his holster (at an airport). A gigantic American flag hangs it.
By the way, this challenge is never very new either. This has always been a detested position.
In 1971, Wayne told Playboy magazine, “I in white supremacy until other black Americans are well informed to a point of responsibility. I don’t think the irritation of other Americans would prefer to be given authority, leadership, and judgment.”
In the interview, he said derogatory things about Native Americans and used an insult opposed to homosexuals.
Last year, his comments and interview went viral. A user named “LaLa Washington” announced a request in Change.org to remove Wayne’s call and statue from the airport. To date, this petition has won more than 3,180 signatures.
Local news in line with Los Angeles Times columnists Michael Hiltzik and David Whiting of the Odiversity County Register then requested that Wayne’s call and symbol be removed.
In June, as other Americans protested and the statues were falling, two chapguy professors, Fred Smoller and Michael A. Moodian, wrote an opinion piece in Voice of OC, also asking for the airport name and statue of Wayne to be removed. from the main terminal. State Sen. Tom Umberg wrote an op-ed in The Odiversity County Register, echoing those feelings and suggesting other O.C. heroes whose names might be known with the airport, such as World War II warriors and brothers Wadjust and Roland Ehlers, Korean War veteran Tibor Rubin and Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor.
Another petition was born, and later in June, the Odiversity County Democratic Party wrote a solution condemning the mythical actor’s “racist and sectarian statements.” They also asked the Odiversity County Board, which has authority, to remove Wayne’s call and remove his statue.
The thing has caught the media’s attention, adding national media such as CNN, Washington Post, CBS News and USA Today. President Trump even stepped in, tweeting, “Now Democrats don’t seem to be doing anything to remove John Wayne’s call from an airport. Incredible stupidity!
It should be noted that Wayne has a good reputation through the respectful county of Odiversity, a great friend, especially in Newport Beither, where she lived for many years. Duke’s Place was a favorite place to eat and a living room when it came to the Balboa Bay Resort. The Newport Beither one Film Festival has been a tribute to Wayne for more than a decade.
The challenge of replenishing lopass came nowhere with the Oversight Council, which is made up of four Republicans and one Democrat. The Board decided not to discuss the matter at its fourth of July meeting.
Michelle Steel is the chairwoman of the supervisory board and represents the time when a district. It has refused to end the discussion of the matter before the Board of Directors, and there are no long-term plans, according to its Director of Communications, Ian Henderson.
A few weeks ago, Steel issued a statement: “John Wayne spearheaded the motion to make Odiversity County a home for Vietnamese refugees, he was a staunch advocate of our uniform, and his founding of the circle of relatives was a national leader in cancer. Research.
“As an immigrant in our country, I am incredibly sensitive to the movements and statements of other Americans who perpetuate and make racist statements. John Wayne’s 50-year-old comments are false and have not been criticized by anyone that other Americans across the United States hold h8 esteem.
“Aleven, although I have a great friend, I have experienced racism, I think it is an individual preference to be judged by all their movements and contributions to society, that is why I keep the name of the John Wayne airport.”
Doug Chaffee, the only Democrat on the supervisory board representing the Fourth District, backs up the pass of being the component of Odiversity County Airport, which identified the airport before he appointed Wayne in June 1979, nine days after his death.
But Chafpayment does not prefer this effort to be political or partisan.
“No matter how it is, it takes a majority to vote to move the call,” he said. Council Republicans “don’t want to move their call.” If I can make the business affected by the change of call, especially friend of the tourism business, that for me is not partisan. That’s the technique I want to take. Wouldn’t it be better to advertise the county, identifying the airport, adding advertising interests, with Odiversity County or “OC”? The county now owns the mark. »»
Chafpayment said he doesn’t believe a call replenishment will succeed before the November election. “I think we prefer the kind of rest until after November. Otherwise, it will be considered partisan or political.”
But Ada Briceo, president of the Odiversity County Democratic Party, who helped draft the party’s resolution, said the time had come and would continue to invite the council to change the name.
“The fact that we are welcome, all users who come to Odiversity County are greeted through a guy who self-proclaims white supremacist, is really troubling. He’s his best litter friend for a wonderful variety of Americans in Odiversity County,” Briceo said. “Given where we are now, it’s time. It’s time. We’re counting on the supervisory board to make that change.
“We know that nothing happens overnight. This is a wonderful moment. It’s about who welcomes you. Symbols matter. Words matter. Names matter. Many other Americans know what (Wayne) said, is not acceptable. We will continue to invite them to move their name.”
There’s a manager who re-picked: Andrew Do, who represents the first district. His opponent is Sergio Contreras, a Democrat, and he won the backing of the Odiversity County Democratic Party.
Briceo added that his concept that the airport call would change, either soon or in the future.
“I think that’s going to change, ” he said. “You have to. It was given to change.”
The Anaheim Heritage Center, located in downtown Anaheim, contains two Odiversity Ku Klux Klan County membership lists in its collection. The center was closed to the public by the coronavirus pandemic, but Jane Newell, director of heritage services, accepted requests for public investigation.
Newell showed a dozen prominent Odiversity County citizens from the 1920s and 1930s on KKK lists, many of whom have streets or buildings named after them.
Incidentally, Gustavo Arelleno, former editor-in-chief of OC Weekly, conducted a chain of research on KKK links in Odiversity County and referred to those lists, which were delivered in 1972 through the historian Leo J. Friis, who worked at Odiversity County’s Workplace of the District Attorney since 1929. -3 years and was prosecutor of the city of Anaheim from 1941 to 1949.
In the Arellano series, he met J.O. Lowell, a breeder of St. Anne, as a member of the Klan. Lowell Street in Santa Ana is understood to be after him.
Pieconsistente with Lane at Tustin was named after John F. Pieconsistente with, a verifiable member of the Ku Klux Klan. He was a board member of Tustin and was inconsistent with a dog food store in Tustin, but the store no longer exists as it was demolished in the 1960s so as not to be by earthquakes.
Samuel Hilgenfeld, Minister of Buena Park and founder of the Anaheim morgue in Hilgenfeld, which bears his name. It is included in the number 2 list of Odiversity County KKK members.
William E. Fanning is on list number 2, known as Master Brea.
There are other examples of KKK members who have held critical positions in the city and whose names appear on Odiversity County buildings, plaques, and streets.
Newell stated that KKK lists in the Anaheim Heritage Cinput are considered secondary resources and not number one because they are a collection of facts from an anonymous source.
However, Mike Rodriguez, Santa Ana’s professor of ethnic and ethnic studies, said he had investigated Apple’s lists and documents that Friis copied from a reliable, number one source.
“I think Odiversity County has had an overly complicated path with racial problems, and you know, some time ago, the Ku Klux Klan had a fortress in Anaheim City Hall,” Briceo said. “They were the bulk of the town hall. There are more stories like this in Odiversity County.”
The Saddleback College Library is understood after Congressman James B. Utt, who opposed civil rights and the right to vote. Aleven, although it does not appear to have direct links from Apple to the KKK, is said to have partnered with KKK members such as Pieper. And he once made it to national news by suggesting that “a broad contingent of barefoot Africans can also perform activities in Georgia as a component of a United Nations army training to bring to the United States,” according to Dissent the Blog, which tracks South Odiversity County. Community college district.
Meanwhile, as outbreaks continue and the coronavirus pandemic forces us to inspect ourselves, additional replenishments are being considered. A request for Change.org asks that Tufloose High School in Placentia reposition its name. Colonel J.K. Tufloose, the school’s namesake, funder of the Confederate states and agent of the Confederacy’s secret services, the petition says. He moved to Odiversity County in 1872 and lived in Fullerton until his suicide in 1903. More than 60 years later, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the school named in his honor.
And Anaheim Hills Canyon High School will be your pet and the name of the team, the Comanches? There is a petition Change.org with 1,231 signatures asking for a change. Hope High School, also in Anaheim Hills, will be your pet and the name of the team, the Aztecs?
Will the City of Huntington ever change the name of Heil Avenue? Aleven, though understood after Vernon C. Heil, a World War I veteran and rancher who lived on what is now Beither one Boulevard, “Heil” turns out to be a direct connection to the salvation of the Nazi party, to World War II. Germabig apple and Adolf Hitler. Perhaplaystation that converts signage to Vernon Heil Avenue would help lower the stigma applicable to Hitler and allow netpaintings to honor the guy more specifically.
As social unrest continues to expand and the call to replenishment continues, everyone’s consciousness, un connected with political agreement, is a little high.
“It doesn’t seem to be that this Black Lives Matter movement is slowing down,” Rodriguez said. “I think we’ll see one more repositioning load in the future.”
Richard Chang is a contributing writer for Arts & Culture at Voice of OC, focusing on the visual arts. He can be reached at [email protected].
The voice of OC intern Kim Pham contributed to the report.
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John Wayne’s opinion of white supremacy came to light when a 1971 interview with Playboy mag went viral in early 2019. As symbols of racial intolerance are destroyed across the country, now is the time to recapture our airport and remove the statue of Wayne. The actor is not our diverse and cosmopolitan community.