Posted on 12/11/2020 5:12:40 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Just rename it Eric Swalwell Honeypot U and everything will be solved. – Welp, looks like Johns Hopkins University is going to be getting a new name sometime in the near future. It turns out the founder of the renowned university – yes, his name was Johns Hopkins – was a slave owner back in the 19th century, which came as a surprise to current leaders of the University since the legend about Mr. Hopkins always held that he was an early and avid abolitionist:
Those leaders penned a letter to the current school community and printed by the New York Post in which they revealed the nasty news: “For most of the last century, our institutions believed Johns Hopkins to be an early and staunch abolitionist whose father, a committed Quaker, had freed the family’s enslaved people in 1807,” university leaders wrote in a letter to the Johns Hopkins community. “We now have government census records that state Mr. Hopkins was the owner of one enslaved person listed in his household in 1840 and four enslaved people listed in 1850.”
From a story at the New York Post:
The revelations came to light as part of the Hopkins Retrospective, a project that began seven years ago to explore the school’s origins and history.
The findings contradict a narrative that was a large part of the school’s history.
“For most of the last century, our institutions believed Johns Hopkins to be an early and staunch abolitionist whose father, a committed Quaker, had freed the family’s enslaved people in 1807,” schools leaders wrote in Wednesday’s letter.
“But over the past several months, research being done as a part of the Hopkins Retrospective has caused us to question this narrative. We now have government census records that state Mr. Hopkins was the owner of one enslaved person listed in his household in 1840 and four enslaved people listed in 1850.”
Johns Hopkins launched the school, America’s first research university, in 1876. It created the hospital in 1889. School leaders noted that Hopkins “specifically directed that the hospital extend its care to include the indigent of Baltimore regardless of sex, age, or race.”
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So, the school must be renamed. Oh, they haven’t said that yet, but hell, we have school districts now taking the names of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington off of their schools, how can a comparative slouch like Johns Hopkins survive with his name intact? I mean, all Johns Hopkins did was found the very first research university in the United States of America, a university whose medical center has saved the lives of hundreds of thousand of people, not just Americans, but people of all races, religions and creeds from all over the world in the intervening 144 years since its founding.
What kind of racist sloth could possibly advocate for keeping Hopkins’ name on the school he founded when there are so many more deserving people out there? You know, sterling individuals like Gerrold Nadler or Adam Schiff or Eric Swalwell or Maxine Waters or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or Chuck Schumer or Michigan’s Governor, Adolpha Whitmer. The list of much more deserving heroes of the left goes on and on and grows daily, literally crying out for more schools named for 17th-and 18th-century racists who were born into privilege, never took any risks for this country and never did anything really significant in their own lives to be renamed.
*sigh*
That is all.
Maybe they can dig up his corpse, but it on trial, and then hang it.
Sharpton U ... Has a ring to it.
But yet mosques, founded by a mass slave trader, are immune.
To hell with these losers wanting to rewrite history.
George Floyd U.
And shouldn’t we close the hospital and university while we’re at it? I hear they both have pretty good reputations and serve many inner city residents, but we must atone. And hasn’t Michael Bloomberg donated many millions to Johns Hopkins?
lol
The Democratic Party was founded by supporters of slave owner Andrew Jackson, tracing its roots to slave owners Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. No Republican has ever owned a slave. The modern rat party does not support democracy, embracing election theft. Their dirty name has got to go.
To make proper atonement, the school will have to be renamed for a critical race theorist.
“No Republican has ever owned a slave.”
False. Unless this is satire it should not be repeated.
When will Yale and Brown be renamed?
Documentation, please, from each of you.
And while they’re at it then need to get some competent staff.
Their COVID-19 map has been wildly inaccurate. For example the isle of NFLD, Canada shows they have had zero CV-19 cases. But a simple Google search shows that have.
Benjamin Burton, state of Delaware.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was the original American “robber baron.” To promote his business interests he went so far as to hire a mercenary (William Walker, the “grey-eyed man of destiny”) to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Which he did, on his second attempt. Walker also tried to conquer Costa Rica (was repulsed) and then Honduras (was captured and hanged), the very definition of “imperialism.”
Yet there still is a university named after him.
For now, anyway.
I stand corrected as he owned 28 slaves and wanted the government to compensate $500 per freed slave. A Republican owning slaves was a queer thing though. The party was clear from the beginning about being anti-slavery.
I hate to be persistent, but the Republican Party was founded on the opposition to the expansion of slavery into American territories and newly created states. The Republican Party was not an abolitionist party although some of its members were abolitionists.
Preventing slavery in new states was not designed to benefit slaves. Slaves did not benefit from being excluded from new states; they remained slaves.
Excluding slaves from new states was to benefit whites who did not want to compete with slave labor. There were other economic and political reasons as well.
Baltimore City University. Has a nice ring to it .
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