Brianna Lyman on the "Trump-Kennedy Center": "I do find it funny that… because no one in [the Democratic] party cared in 2020 when you guys were changing names of hospitals, parks, schools, streets, everything in the name of George Floyd."pic.twitter.com/2fP6T0yUhv
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 22, 2025
Lyman, referring to the Democratic Party, claims
.... no one in your party cared in 2020 when you guys were changing names of hospitals, parks, schools, streets, everything in the name of George Floyd. Wikipedia has an entire page called List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests. It's the longest Wikipedia page I've ever seen.
Indeed, it is long, though if it's the longest she ever has seen, she has to get out more. But notice it's called (emphasis mine) the "List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests." It's not the "List of things changed in the name of George Floyd."
Yet, she contended that names of hospitals, parks, schools, streets, everything" were changed in the name of George Floyd."
The number of things changed to anything "George Floyd" did not hover far above zero. The reason for name changes varied considerably. In many cases, it was done to avoid the word "Dixie" or something else relating to the Confederacy. Many times, there was something apparently racist or otherwise bigoted in the original name. In other instances, there was an effort to eliminate an ethnic stereotype, whether against blacks, South Asians, or tribal people.
One guest, Cari Champion, pointed out
I think that this country had a racial reckoning
and they understood — Please let me finish because I let you finish — They had
a racial reckoning and they understood that this country had done some things
that were very unfair, especially to marginalized [people], especially to Black
people, and they were giving tributes and statues to people who were slave
owners who were considered heroes at one point.
Lyman responded, sarcastically, "Like Jefferson and Washington," a legitimate remark because there were a few- very few- instances involving statues of the two ex-Presidents. However, as they continued in disagreement, Champion advised her "The reality is that they may have over corrected but right now they're over correcting in another way."
That is clearly what the Trump Administration is doing. What no one, understandably but unfortunately, advised Lyman is that during the height of the Floyd protests, even Republicans and conservatives largely avoided criticizing the movement, perhaps because it is difficult to criticize something called "Black Lives Matter." (Tucker Carlson was a notable exception.) It started to become fashionable only in retrospect for the right to criticize those 2020 protests. Few conservatives are able to claim that they were critical in real time.
My favorite entry on the Wikipedia page The Federalist reporter lied to us about pertained to a band called "Slaves." It announced on 6/25/20 that it would become "Rain City Drive" because "As obstinate supporters of the BLM Movement, we cannot continue to tie our music and our positive message toa word associated with such negative weight and hurt."
That was commendable, though as a non-obstinate supporter of the BLM movement, I would have thought it obvious that "Slaves" was not a good name for a band. If nothing else, it trivialized a reprehensible aspect of American history.
The name "Slaves" for a band was never wise and trivialized a reprehensible aspect of American history. Though a non-obstinate supporter of the BLM movement, I realized, as anyone should have, that "Slaves" (or "Enslaved People") was a bad move and needed to be shelved.
Perhaps Brianna Lyman would agree, assuming that she actually read that Wikipedia page she wanted everyone to believe proved that Democrats were fond of "George Floyd" this and "George Floyd" that. It's impossible to determine whether she did even skim the page. However, conservatives have learned over the last few years that attaching "Democrats" to "George Floyd" is a winning ploy, even though at the time those protests were taking place, most of them kept their mouths conveniently shut.
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