Posted on 03/14/2016 7:39:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Harvard University is retiring the official shield of its law school following complaints over its ties to an 18th-century slaveholder. […]
The shield was approved in 1937 and depicts three bundles of wheat. It’s modeled after the family crest of slaveholder Isaac Royall Jr., who donated his estate to create the first law professorship at Harvard. Royall inherited his estate and many slaves from his father, a slaveholder who was known for his cruelty. …
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Three bundles of wheat-——the horror !!!!!!!!!!!
This type of thing,erasing our history,is moving right along.
Pathetic-—15% of the country telling the rest of us how to live.
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Whatever. I hope they can sleep at night now.
Bow to the #BLACKLIESMATTER.
It worked out so well for Mizzou.
Let’s drain Harvard’s endowment totally dry to pay reparations! ;-)
So Massachusetts was a slave state? Slavery left Massachusetts without having to go to war. Over time, the same would have happened in the south.
Maybe or maybe not. The south is where a lot of the collectivists started to congregate; I was looking up the history of the DOJ recently, and apparently the modern DOJ was inspired by the confederate version, giving inordinate powers to the executive and all.
Try 1%, and it is always the same 1% who are social justice warriors for just about every and any cause. Of course, quite a number of them are academics, so the backstabbing is coming from within their own family.
Maybe so.
The north abandoned slavery mostly because they realized they could get cheaper and better skilled labor from Europe. The European labor was easier to assimilate. The labor was cheaper because they didn’t have to house and feed the Europeans.
“The labor was cheaper because they didn’t have to house and feed the Europeans.”
They also did not have to commision an entire governmental department to teach them how to use a toilet either
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