On Dec. 15, 2020, various conservative news outlets published stories reporting that public schools in San Francisco were set on changing the name of Abraham Lincoln High School in the city’s Sunset District because Lincoln “didn’t show Black lives mattered to him.”

Since massive Black Lives Matter demonstrations over the spring and summer of 2020 following high-profile police killings of Black Americans, the modern-era civil rights movement has been the subject of national media coverage and discussion. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been accused of racism during his tenure in office, called it a “symbol of hate” when the phrase “Black Lives Matter” was set to be painted on New York City’s famed Fifth Avenue, even as numerous businesses, politicians, and celebrities professed support for the movement.

So stories about the proposed high school name change may be a bit of red meat thrown to the nation’s culture warriors, but predictably, the story is more nuanced. For starters, it’s misleading to frame the most sensational aspect of the story as the most important, because in reality, the proposal to rename Lincoln High School had nothing to do with Black Lives Matter.