San Francisco school board president set off a firestorm on social media for his proposal to rename George Washington H.S. He said no school should be named for slave holders.

According to the Associated Press, there are more African Americans with the last name of Washington than any other ethnicity in the country.  The 2000 U.S. Census counted ninety percent of people with the surname Washington were in fact African American–a total of 163,036.  That number is far higher than any other ethnicity for any other […]