Yale: John Calhoun Stays - But What About Elihu Yale?

Old Virginia Blog ^ | 19 May 2016 | Richard Williams

[Davy Buck]

So if we use the same logic used in regards to Confederate figures and icons in the South, Yale should change its name. Why don't we hear that demand from the "historians" in the blogosphere? That's simple. It does not serve the purpose of their agenda, at least not yet.

And maybe, in this instance, the administration at Yale realized that Calhoun was the low-hanging fruit and once he had been vanquished, the offended would aim higher - at Elihu Yale. And what might alumni benefactors have to say about that? All that there moral reformin' could get expensive. Virtue-signaling evidently has a budget limit.

[Travis McGee]

Yale with slave boy.

[Thumper1960]

No matter what, by today's standards, the past giants who built our nation may have thought and done "wrong", they are still honored and cherished for the issuance from their labors the greatest nation to have ever existed.

We would be truly blessed to have again a Calhoun, Jefferson, Webster, Robert E. Lee or Andrew Jackson....just to name a very, very few. All contributed to my being here in a virtual paradise on Earth.

God bless them all.

[Lorianne]

Exactly.
Great men can be flawed at the same time.
Where are the great men of Africa who set up systems of government and industry that brought peace and prosperity to vast numbers of people? Same in the Middle East?