SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 31: Valley Health Center Bascom in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
“In that case, you may as well not teach about slavery in school then. Certain things are just named after certain people. Everybody has something in their past.”
— Corina Aguilar, on Santa Clara County removing the name of 19th century Dr. Louis Hazelton Bascom from Valley Health Center Bascom over accounts he’d bought a Black slave for $800.
Originally published at Bay Area News Group