Princeton Pressured to Rename School Honoring ‘White Supremacist’ President Woodrow Wilson

Heat Street ^ | February 14, 2017 | Kieran Corcoran

[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 Wilson’s name from the university’s 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, Wilson’s attitude was exceptional even then.

However, despite the pressure, Princeton said that the name of Wilson’s school – and Wilson Hall, a residential complex – will remain unchanged.

A statement to The Tab said: “The question of Wilson’s legacy has been fully addressed by the trustees and will not be reopened.

“Princeton is committed to acknowledging and discussing Wilson’s legacy, including through an exhibition that has been traveling from location to location on campus.

[Iron Munro]

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

[Uncle Sam 911]

He suffered a stroke in office but did not die until after his term ended. His wife ran the country during his illness.

[Red Badger]

If your wife is doing your job, you might as well be dead..............

[all the best]

Princeton was founded by white people. Shut it down.

[cgbg]

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. :-(

[onedoug]

At the very least it should be Princesston.

[itsahoot]

Wilson died in office.

Two years before he left.

[bgill]

St. Skittles Hall has a nice ring to it.

[itsahoot]

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.

[Red Badger]

Pretty much...............

[TBP]

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.

[TBP]

Obama tried.

[Red Badger]

That was essentially what I was referring to, he was probably brain dead.....................