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Princeton Pressured to Rename School Honoring ‘White Supremacist’ President Woodrow Wilson
Heat Street ^
| February 14, 2017
| Kieran Corcoran
Posted on 02/15/2017 10:18:15 AM PST by TBP
Princeton is under renewed pressure to rename an institution honoring President Woodrow Wilson after activists branded him a white supremacist.
Campus activists made another attempt to scrub Wilsons name from the universitys School of Public and International Affairs (pictured above) over his views on race.
He agreed to re-segregate large parts of the federal government, expressed sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan and regularly worked to exclude or dissuade black people from public life.
As a Vox explainer notes, although the 1910s had very different racial norms to today, Wilsons attitude was exceptional even then.
However, despite the pressure, Princeton said that the name of Wilsons school and Wilson Hall, a residential complex will remain unchanged.
A statement to The Tab said: The question of Wilsons legacy has been fully addressed by the trustees and will not be reopened.
Princeton is committed to acknowledging and discussing Wilsons legacy, including through an exhibition that has been traveling from location to location on campus.
(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: princeton; wilson; wilsonracist; woodrowwilson
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To: TBP
There are many notables who have special standing in black history.
Here are just a few of the exiting alternatives:
- Barack Hussein Obama School of Public and International Affairs
- Michelle Obama School of Public and International Affairs
- Al Sharpton School of Public and International Affairs
- Maxine Waters School of Public and International Affairs
- Rachel Anne Dolezal School of Public and International Affairs
- Hank Johnson School of Public and International Affairs
- Jesse Jackson School of Public and International Affairs
- Corrine Brown School of Public and International Affairs
- Alcee Hastings School of Public and International Affairs
- Malcolm X School of Public and International Affairs
- Louis "The Charmer" Farrakhan School of Public and International Affairs
- Robert Mugabe School of Public and International Affairs
- Charles Taylor School of Public and International Affairs
- Idi Amin Dada School of Public and International Affairs
- Omar Al-Bashir School of Public and International Affairs
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posted on
02/15/2017 10:59:05 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: Red Badger
He suffered a stroke in office but did not die until after his term ended. His wife ran the country during his illness.
To: Uncle Sam 911
If your wife is doing your job, you might as well be dead..............
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posted on
02/15/2017 11:17:55 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: TBP
Princeton was founded by white people. Shut it down.
To: TBP
He is a Progressive hero because he managed to get a lot of American boys killed and injured in a foreign war to “make the world safe for Democracy.”
Progressives love that stuff. :-(
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posted on
02/15/2017 11:22:01 AM PST
by
cgbg
(Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
To: all the best
At the very least it should be Princesston.
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posted on
02/15/2017 11:43:28 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: Red Badger
Wilson died in office. Two years before he left.
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posted on
02/15/2017 11:59:43 AM PST
by
itsahoot
(Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
To: TBP
St. Skittles Hall has a nice ring to it.
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posted on
02/15/2017 12:06:55 PM PST
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: AlaskaErik
Wilson died in 1924...just a little under three years after leaving office. He actually died two years before he left office he just didn't stop breathing.
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posted on
02/15/2017 12:07:53 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
To: itsahoot
Pretty much...............
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posted on
02/15/2017 12:07:58 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Red Badger
He didn’t die in office. He died shortly after leaving office.
He may as well have died in office, though. He was non-functional for the last year or two.
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posted on
02/23/2017 1:12:13 PM PST
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TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/23/2017 1:12:42 PM PST
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: TBP
That was essentially what I was referring to, he was probably brain dead.....................
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posted on
02/23/2017 1:20:02 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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