MONTHS ABOUT 60,000 CARS WILL
NEED TO BE INSPECTED THIS
MONTH AND NEXT ALL ACROSS THE
COUNTRY PROTESTERS PULLING
DOWN CONFEDERATE STATUES IN A
SHOW OF ANTI RACISM.
AND HERE IN PORTLAND OVER
THE WEEKEND. THE NAME STAKE
FOR JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL
TOPPLED TO THE GROUND
PROTESTERS PULL DOWN THE
THOMAS JEFFERSON STATUE IN
FRONT OF JEFFERSON HEART LISA
BAILEY DIGGING DEEPER TO FIND
OUT. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE
SCHOOL SHE JOINS US LIVE TO
PUT SOME PERSPECTIVE ON ALL
THIS. LISA.
YEAH WE WANT A LITTLE BIT
MORE ABOUT THIS AND THE STATUE
ACTION HAS BEEN OUT FRONT FOR
MORE THAN A 100 YEARS SINCE
1916 IT WAS ACTUALLY THE
SCHOOL BOARD STUDENTS ALUMNI
TO FUNDRAISE TO PUT IT OUT
THERE. BUT TOPPING THAT STATUE
SOME SAY IS NOT THE ONLY
CHANGE THAT'S NEEDED.
THE FULL AND BRONZE STATUE
PICKED UP AND CARTED AWAY BY
SOME WORKERS. AFTER WAS PULLED
DOWN WITH ROPES LAST NIGHT,
PROTESTERS SPRAY PAINTED THE
PEDESTAL WITH THE WORDS GEORGE
FLOYD AND SLAVE OWNER THOMAS
JEFFERSON THE U.S. PRESIDENT
AND AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE ON HUNDREDS OF
BLACK SLAVES I WAS JUST HAPPY
THAT THIS HAPPENED. IT WAS
KIND OF BITTERSWEET BEING.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND
KNOWING THE REASON THAT IT
CAME DOWN, BUT THEN ALSO BEING
A PRO. JEFFERSON GRADUATE. SO
IT KIND OF HAD THE KIND OF A
DOUBLE MEANING TO ME.
TAKE THE FIELD IN HIS
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER'S
MARCH STARTED SUNDAY NIGHT
OUTSIDE JEFFERSON HIGH. THE
STATUE PULL DOWN AFTER MOST
DEMONSTRATORS HAD LEFT THE
AREA HEADED TO ALBERTA PARK.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF RECENT
DEBATE OVER CHANGING THE NAME
OF JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL. WELL
SOMEONE HAD CHANGED. OTHERS
SAY BEING FROM JEFF IS A
SOURCE OF PRIDE. IT HAS THE
HIGHEST PERCENT OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDENTS IN A
PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL AND THE
GRADUATION RATE HAS CLIMBED
FROM 54% TO ALMOST 90%. THERE
ARE BIGGER RACIAL ISSUES THAN
A STATUE IN A NAME SAYS ONE
PROMINENT GRADUATE FROM THE
FACT THAT JURORS IN HIS SECOND
OLDEST HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE
PUBLIC WHO CAN STILL GET NOT
HAD A BOND PASSED IN ITS FAVOR
TO TO WORK ON ALL
THE KREMLIN SCHOOL THAT IT
IS THAT WE THE RACISM INVOLVED
IN THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO TALK
ABOUT OTHER SEE THE SYMBOLIC
EVENT OF REMOVING THE STATUE
AS PART OF A NEW MOVEMENT OF
CHANGE WE WILL NEVER GO BACK.
RACIALLY SPEAKING TO THE
KIND OF SOCIETY THAT EXISTED
IN THIS COUNTRY EVEN 3 MONTHS
AGO.
NOW AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT,
WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR THE
STATUE WHAT ABOUT PLANS AGAIN
TO TALK ABOUT RENAMING THE
SCHOOL THEY SAY THAT THEY WILL
LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY AND
HAVE A DIALOGUE BEFORE ANY OF
