J[ames] M[adison] U[niversity] is renaming halls that bear names of Confederate leaders

AP ^ | July 8, 2020 | Staff

[C19fan]

Virginia's James Madison University is renaming three buildings that bear the names of Confederate leaders. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that university’s board of visitors voted to change the names of three halls following requests by students, alumni and campus organizations.

[C19fan]

The school is not considering changing its name. James Madison was the slave-owning fourth U.S. president and chief architect of the U.S. Constitution.<

is not yet considering

Fixed it

[conservaDave]

Class of 79. This school will never receive any financial or other support from me.....EVER.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Thank you Nimrata Randhawa.

[budj]

What the hell! I once heard that some Southern towns named their sewage treatment plants after Sherman.

[FewsOrange]

Maury has non Confederate achievements worth commemorating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury

[TokarevM57]

....great post....! this is from one source....

“Thomas Jefferson—despite once calling slavery an “assemblage of horrors”—owned at least 175 enslaved workers at one time. James Madison, James Monroe and Andrew Jackson each kept several dozen enslaved workers, and Martin Van Buren owned one during his early career.”

Just wait for it....good ol’ JayEmmYu will be history in
the not too distant future...Barack Obama University has a
nice ring to it.....

[bgill]

Trayvon Science Building.

Floyd Humanities.

Hands Up Brown Dept. of English.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Pathfinder of the Seas.

They took down his statue on Monument Ave this week. :(

[atomic_dog]

Hands Up Brown Dept. of English.

Hands Up Brown Dept. of English Ebonics.

Fixed it for ya!