Posted on 09/11/2020 10:11:35 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
EAST LANSING, Mich. — UPDATE: The board of Trustees made the decision official Friday morning. The decision was made during the MSU Board of Trustees meeting on Sept. 11.
(WSYM) - Michigan State University will rename the Nisbet building after a Ku Klux Klan connection was discovered.
The university building located at 1407 S. Harrison Road was named after Stephen S. Nisbet, a former education administrator and former member of Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees. The building was named for Nisbet in February of 1974.
However, it has recently come to light that Nisbet was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, when his membership card from the 1920s was discovered at a library at Central Michigan University.
MSU President Samuel L. Stanley Jr. said, “It was recently brought to my attention that Mr. Nisbet was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the early parts of the last century. After verifying the information, I have made a recommendation to our board to remove his name from a building on our campus. As leaders of this university, we must build a campus community we are all proud of – one that values collaboration, mutual respect, support for each other. This commitment must be manifested in ways that extend well beyond words.”
The building will be renamed temporarily to 1407 S. Harrison while the university continues evaluating a more permanent naming decision.
How on earth did the guy’s KKK membership card end up in the library at CMU?
Some of the worst Klan stories you are ever going to hear come out of Ohio and Indiana.
Up here they were as much against Catholics as they were Blacks.
I guess they were so busy investigating this that they didn’t have time. to figure out what Larry Nassar was. doing to gymnasts.
Virginia Governor Northam: “Look, that’s my grandfather. There, the 71st KKK guy on the right.” Like my own college yearbook photos you can’t tell really well.
Old joke from the late and great Lewis Grizzard:
Q: Where do the KKK members go to buy their stupid hats?
A: KKK Mart.
Northam was the one in blackface.
The KKK guy was somebody else.
I was at a Halloween party in high-school where a white couple came in blackface as a black couple, and their black friend came with them in full KKK gear. The three of them then rode home on a bus together. They were hysterical. Particularly the girl.
Sania Kay strikes out.
Silly creature.....
Stephen S. Nisbet was the superintendent of the Fremont Public Schools in Fremont, Michigan, the town where I grew up. He was close to the Gerber family; Gerber Baby Food was invented in Fremont; my dad was a career employee of Gerber Products Company before it became a subsidiary of first Sandoz, then Novartis, now Nestle. I graduated from Fremont High School in 1972. Mr. Nisbet had retired by the time I got to high school; he lived about one block east of the old high school building on E. Main Street.
Mr. Nisbet was the president of the Michigan Constitutional Convention; he beat out, among others, George Romney for that honor.
I didn’t mean specifically that the KKK outfit in the college yearbook was Northam. The blackface caricature racist next to the other racist was Northam but he still could have said “That’s my grandfather...” about a different scene.
Good to keep me on my toes, though. Seriously.
Not all democRATS were klansmen, but all klansmen were democRATS.
Stephen Sutherland Nisbet (1895-1986) — also known as Stephen S. Nisbet — of Fremont, Newaygo County, Mich. Born in Tawas City, Iosco County, Mich., May 28, 1895. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; school teacher and principal; superintendent of schools; vice-president, Gerber Baby Foods; bank director; member of Michigan state board of education, 1943-61; appointed 1943; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1960 (member, Resolutions Committee); delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention from 26th Senatorial District, 1961-62; member of Michigan State University board of trustees, 1964-70. Congregationalist. Member, American Legion; Freemasons; Phi Delta Kappa; Rotary. Died in Riverside County, Calif., July 3, 1986 (age 91 years, 36 days). Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery.
Note that this bio lists him as a Republican, not a common affiliation for the KKK! Is there ANY HISTORY beyond the membership card that he was an 'active' member or actively racist? To me this is exactly like the Kate Smith fiasco, a single sin done as a young-ish adult under circumstances impossible to recreate. He has been dead for 34 years and so these Cultists are cancelling him and all the good he did in his past. Ben Franklin ended his life passionately against slavery, founding an abolition group, yet he appears to have owned a slave couple up to the 1770s. The latte is why he is in the sights of the Cancel Cult, in spite of the former 'redemption'!
Beware of these fanatics and these fanatics should beware of historical precedents. Robespierre relished the number of enemies he sent to Madam Guillotine UNTIL he ended under her pitiless blade himself!
Considering we are now in the burn-down/tear-down culture, shouldn’t MSU simply destroy the building? The building has roots to a person affiliated with hate.
Name it after Duffy Daugherty!
That way you’ll know for certain no education gets passed on in there!
LOL! Thanks for the ping. A very good thread. INFOBUMP!
Duffy “a tie is like kissing your sister” MSU 10 ND 10 Daugherty.
This really means that the state of West Virginia will soon be declaring bankruptcy due to the costs associated with replacing all the all the Robert Byrd signs with George Floyd signs.
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