This is who the Whittier neighborhood in Minneapolis is named for

January 24, 2026 - 22:47 UTC

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Grew up where he was from in Haverhill, have a charcoal sketch of his Homestead on my LR wall.
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If I was so inclined to participate in any religious practice, it would be Quakerism. 👍🏻
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Thank you Chris
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Dear Lord and father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways.
~ from one of several hymns he wrote
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"What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few
For hireling traitor's wages."

Burns wrote that on another matter but it seems pertinent to the US now.
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Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
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My large High school was split into "Houses", each with a dedicated Dean and each named for an American poet or Author. Mine was the Whittier House. The others were Emerson, Hawthorne and Dickinson.
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Why did you post this precise data,or what meaning are you striving for?Your answer is telling,because I am trying to unite the racist tribes,not divide:reason: if tribes unite,votes bring power,power to create the atmosphere for change,and change will create Americans,not Hyphenated-Americans
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Thank you. I didn’t know.
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I lived in Whittier for 7 years. I loved it so much. The pre 🧊goons aka "proud boys" et al fucked it up royally during the UpRising. They've returned to "finish the job", hiding behind masks & guns. Little do they know the resilience & commitment of this beloved, diverse Community. 💔💐💓
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🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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He's the greatest! Peep my profile. Been on there since I started on bsky. So awesome to see someone calling him out for any reason. ✌️
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!!!
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There won’t be any neighborhoods named after Bovino.
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The rich gangsters controlling everything by highest commanding posts & they're the legislators & decision makers which are based on dictatorship injustice exploitation & slavery. so stand up for revolution & snatch your stolen freedom justice equality &human rights encourage the nation to wake up💪💪
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We are all human but we are not the same

youtube.com/shorts/rIsQaV7hnfw?si=s-Zt2OfTKjX-JkjW
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As well as Whittier College in California.
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Their mascot is the Poets
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Always good to see the name of someone who wasn’t some vile piece of shit attached to things
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There's also a Whittier, CA, named for him. Los Angeles suburb.
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Nixon was from there.
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Home of Whittier College. Which counts one Richard Nixon among its alumni
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Ye Friendly Towne

Committed to Nonviolence

Whittier Indivisible Chapter stands with peaceful protesters protecting their neighbors in Whittier, MN
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Ah yes, a pacifist
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Grew up in Whittier CA. Whole childhood attended the Whittier Friend’s Quaker church.
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Their message board in front of the church right now says: Love thy neighbor - NO EXCEPTIONS.
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Fitting I read this on Burns Day
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The name of my elementary school.
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Also Nixon's hometown in Whittier, CA. Two main streets Whittier/Greenleaf.
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That tracks. New England settlement of the Upper Midwest
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My elementary school in Apple Valley was named Greenleaf after him.
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I believe Whittier College, Nixon’s alma mater is named after him.
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The home where he lived for most of his adult life is two towns over from me in Amesbury, MA. On, appropriately enough, Friend Street. It's now a historic site and museum. You can also visit the farmstead where he was born, in neighboring Haverhill. It's also a museum. whittierhome.org/
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over the Merrimack River
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Whittier st. Is named after him in Boston.
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Thanks!
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Part of my family settled in Whittier, CA… also named for JGW. Known as the City of Trees. Didn’t know we had a sister neighborhood in Minneapolis❤️ (I do know of the bizarre little building-town of Whittier, AK.)

Anyway. Quakers are pretty cool. Abolish ICE.
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Namesake of Nixon's alma mater.
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Also namesake of Whittier, CA, and Whittier College.
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And this from our dear Quaker Friends: “Donald Trump Sued by Quakers Over ICE Raids… (in churches)”
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My ancestors were Quakers and of the Lenne Lenape tribe
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Also the name of a college that another lying president went to (Nixon)
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Snowbound

"The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Slow tracing down the thickening sky
Its mute and ominous prophecy,
A portent seeming less than threat,
It sank from sight before it set."
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Good Quaker man.
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Minnesota, get organized!
go.bsky.app/67ZH9Hk
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Denver's Whittier neighborhood is named after the same guy.
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Snowbound is rather timely today. We aren’t going anywhere.
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And, wouldn’t you know it, January 25th is Burns Night in Scotland.
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Not one MAGA will be impressed.
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From Whittier's poem The Rendition, about Anthony Burns, who was captured in Boston and sent in chains to Virginia:

And Law, an unloosed maniac, strong,
Blood-drunken, through the blackness trod,
Hoarse-shouting in the ear of God
The blasphemy of wrong.

www.gutenberg.org/files/9580/9580-h/9580-h.htm href="/search?t=posts&q=link2H_4_0054">#link2H_4_0054
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I grew up on a farm. Went to a small school. 6 kids in my grade in Elementary School. I’d memorize books of poems just because. Snowbound starts. The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray….
(If I remember it correctly)
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So, it's just the opposite of ICE, right?
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If the current Nazi regime knew history I'd say this is why they're targeting Minnesota but nah... they're just a pure evil power-hungry confederacy of dunces.
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As a Scotsman I'm a big fan of Robert Burns. I have read his complete works & it is full of home truths. He was a big part of the start of public libraries, convincing wealthier people to lend their books to poorer people - Would God give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us.
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✌️👏
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Utterly surreal
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Have you looked up Bishop Whipple yet?
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Nice, go Quakers
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SOCIALIST TERRORIST
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How did states that fought for the Union begin flying the flag of the confederacy as room decor and electing the most repulsive rapist and bigots?
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Well of course that’s why the fascists are invading there🤨😤
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Was he "from France?"
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And Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood is named for Wendell Phillips, a fervent abolitionist. He was once asked why he couldn't turn down the heat in his rhetoric: why are do you always have to be so firery? Phillips' reply: "Yes, I'm on fire--becuase I have mountains of ice to melt!"
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I’m sure he had a lot of dishonest arseholes asking why he was so mad in an effort to derail him. It happens to the best of us, even if we’re only being direct.
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Pleased to be the 89th ❤️ on this one
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And Sumner library is named after Charles Sumner, the Massachusetts senator and ardent abolitionist who was beaten nearly to death by a southern politician after he gave a fiery speech in the senate denouncing slavery and calling out the politicians who supported it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner
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Exactly. This whole BS thing of people being "divisive" by daring to asset that all humans are indeed humans is something that needs to end.
Equality is not divisive. Domination is divisive.
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John Brown’s body lies a-moulderin’ in the grave
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And this is who the Whipple Building is named after.
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I wish I could say that Minnesota is some woke bastion, but in case you're not from here, until recently Bde Maka Ska, one of the most popular lakes in Minneapolis, was called Lake Calhoun, after the pro-slavery politician
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That explains why the teams at Whittier College in California are the Poets
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When my son was growing up, we read his poem “poor voter on Election Day” each Election Day. I also read it to my students.
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Inspiration
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California too. Nixon hometown.
He was Quaker
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I grew up in Whittier,Ca
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It's funny to run across this today.

Just last night, at a family dinner, we were talking about the renaming of the Stapleton neighborhood in Denver. The Neighborhood used to be the airport, named after the mayor who built it, who was in the KKK.

For the record, I'm glad they renamed it.
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Minnesotans are brave badasses of the Highest Order.

I bow to them and pray for them.

Thank you from the bottom of my broken New York heart. 💔
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The old boy was a resident of my hometown in Massachusetts. For some reason he was very popular.
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My Great Great Grandfather was a Union soldier from Minnesota. I'm so glad that his son decided to move his entire family (including GGG to Canada).
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Minnesota does still have the confederate battle flag we captured. Twenty-eighth Virginia Infantry Regimental Battle Flag | MNopedia share.google/EddKsG0uf5TJTiLcR
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Well today was definitely a "there goes the neighborhood" kind of day.
Fuck
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Sounds like a good guy, especially with the timing (tomorrow night is Burns night).
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Huh. He’s a relative of mine. Abolitionist. V cool.
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He was also reincarnated as a Scottish shepherd.
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Whittier Elementary School. SS Chi town
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I think we should recognize that what we have now are Southern troops invading the North to bring white supremacy there. It’s the achievement of a 160-year dream. So this is fitting.
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I used to live there.
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I grew up in Whittier Ca. It was famous for being the home of Richard Nixon and then it wasn't
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I grew up in Whittier, CA, too. I remember when they took down the signs that said, “hometown of President Richard M. Nixon.”
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Grew up there as well. Not proud of the Nixon connection.
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Legend
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The current admin are worse than confederates and have long past any connection to shame:
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I was in a book store in Whittier, California,and the owner said that Whittier was established by Quakers 🧐 So is it true 🤔
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I live in Whittier, CA. Yes. It's true. Whittier was founded by Quakers and is named for JG Whittier. Nixon (born in Yorba Linda) grew up here, went to school here, and bought his first house with wife Pat here.
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Yes.
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I went to Whittier Elementary school in Jacinto City, Texas.
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Let make him famous! 😂
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Love me some Quakers. 😊
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He penned one of my favorite quotes:

Of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: what might have been
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Maud Miller
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Yes, ask anyone from Whittier, California.
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