Posted on 03/01/2020 4:45:05 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
“...where are the fighters of yesteryears...”
Apparently relegated to our old, “racist” past, by much, much lesser “men”.
When one runs from the field, the enemy bayonets your wounded.
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They ought to rename the university. Its founder Paul Tulane donated considerable sums of money to support the Confederacy, and after the war he funded the construction of Confederate monuments.
That's not happening. In Seattle and New York City, they put up statues of Vladimir Lenin.
In that case, they would have to rename Orange County and the city of Orange in California because those were named for Orange County, Va. at the instigation of Confederate sympathizers.
Overlooking the obvious, the victory is in that slavery was ended & now the bell can be rung any time descendants of slaves want to ring it. That is the glorious victory. Seeing reminders of the Confederacy should remind us to honor freedom, and not to disparage the losing side, but to remember the glory of the Union’s victory. Of course, it takes focusing on the positive rather then the negative, as well as freedom, that allows for the ability to not be blinded by outrage and loose track of what really happened. It is a victory this bell no longer rings on a plantation. It is a victory the losing side was allowed to honor their dead, therefore reminding us of the victory of equality over inequality.
Tulane admitted its first black student as a gradual student in 1963. I was an undergraduate there from 1965 to 1969. I don’t remember any blacks in the pre-med program during that time.
Notice they don’t want to go back to Mother Africa.
The only smart thing ever out of Whoopie Goldberg’s mouth was that she’d been to Africa and she was glad her ancestors were brought to America because of how awful Africa is today. Of course, that was back in the 70s and before “The View”.
Not only was it segregated, but when I went there, women had to attend Newcomb College.
Tulane is a bastion of liberalism, I know I worked there for a long time. Fortunately I was in a position to retire to get away from it. The did have good benefits though.
Ew, it has ear cooties!
“However New Orleans has a long history of integration. In fact NOLA was integrated before integration was even considered in this country.”
“Are you saying that all the public schools, restaurants and hotels, etc., in NOLA were integrated decades before the civil rights era of the 1960s? I doubt that.”
In New Orleans society was integrated based on caste. When the post civil occupation U.S. forces arrived it all changed, integration occurred along racial lines and the caste system faded into obscurity.
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