Posted on 06/27/2020 12:32:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Princeton University is removing President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and a residential college due to the former president’s “racist thinking.”
“The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all its forms,” announced Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber on Saturday.
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” added Eisgruber. “He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice.”
The board voted on Friday to change the names of both the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will now be named “The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.”
As for Wilson College, Eisgruber claimed that the university was already planning on closing the college, but now the school will instead “accelerate retirement of the name” so that students won’t have to “identify with the name of a racist president for the next two years.”
Now, Wilson College will instead be called “First College.”
“Wilson’s segregationist policies make him an especially inappropriate namesake for a public policy school,” Eisgruber pointed out in his statement.
“When a university names a school of public policy for a political leader, it inevitably suggests that the honoree is a model for students who study at the school,” continued the university president.
“This searing moment in American history has made clear that Wilson’s racism disqualifies him from that role,” added Eisgruber of the former Democrat president.
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A prominent Democrat president. Now do FDR, who was even more racist.
The stupidity is endless.
Nope, not even close. WW was the most racist President we ever had.
Here’s a great idea. Why not fire about 35% of white university chancellors and replace 15% of them with women of color and 15% of them with men of color and the other 5% with trannies of color?
The United States identified only white males as citizens in their first Constitution.
That makes it a racist creation under this guy’s interpretation.
So is Eisgruber gonna tell us the Constitution don’t apply cuz the people who wrote it were “racist” in his view?
Princeton was named after the nearby town which itself was originally named “Princetown” after King William III. The crown monopoly corporation “Royal African Company” was the major west African slave trader in the 17th century. King William III headed the crown. Therefore, the name “Princeton” is extremely racist.
Why aren’t they changing the name of the university?
these history erasers do not realize the future floks will erase THEM from hisotry as well
because of their own personal shortcomings. we see their shortcomings now. in the future they will be erased.
Wilson was a “progressive” leftist, academic and lawyer. ;D
As bad as his racism was, his progressivism was worse. Good riddance to all things named after him.
no, white women were citizens
not federal voters, but citizens
and several states let them vote
maybe their first mistakes doing so
“He Kept Us Out of War” was his campaign slogan. ;D
The University of Texas needs to rename its School of Public Policy since it has LBJ’s name attached to it. You know the so called “civil rights” president who uttered, “I’ll have those N’s voting Democratic for 200 years.”
Never should have gotten into that Stupid war.
And Elihu Yale, who was even moreso (slave owner). Why should he have an Ivy League university named after him, just because he founded it 300 years ago.
If they banned the entire DemocRAT party, that would be more prudent.
Its a white mans country. Let the white man rule! 1868 democRAT party campaign slogan.
Take away the Marx Brothers’ Walk of Fame sidewalk panel. Groucho made a few racist jokes once. And Harpo danced around with some blacks singing “Who Dat Man?” while he played a penny whistle. As for Chico, he still made movies with those horrible racists, so he and Zeppo are toast, too.
liberal thinking on twitter is because yale has done so many good things for the last 300 years
not sure that will be enough for the ANTIFA and BLM crowd
Did they forget about Bush and "Skull and Crossbones"?
They’d go down on Michael Moore to get into Yale, because of the power and prestige that comes with the diploma and membership in the fraternities and alumnus. I’m unconcerned with what Antifart and BLowMe do to their campus.
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