Posted on 02/21/2021 11:11:46 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Students at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, are demanding the school remove a statue of Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor — the namesake and co-founder of the university — from campus.
Student protesters took a photo in front of the Judge Baylor statue, holding Black Lives Matter signs and dressed in all black clothing on Baylor’s 176 birthday, as well as the first day of Black History Month, according to a report by the Baylor Lariat.
“The point of the picture is not to remove Judge Baylor as a whole. It’s to remove Judge Baylor from campus,” student Sam Onilenla told the newspaper. “I don’t want to see it on campus just because I know I’m not supposed to be here, according to him. Having him off campus is going to be the start of racial healing.”
“I think that the problems we have today started from that day,” said Onilenla. “Integration didn’t happen until 1963, so you have 118 years where there’s no black people on this campus.”
The student expressed that if the Baylor statue were to be removed, then students will believe the university is taking racial issues seriously.
“It’s having those ideals still founded, literally built, ingrained into the school,” said Onilenla. “Once we remove that from campus, then we can start removing — the rest of the stuff off the campus that makes us feel uncomfortable.”
“As a slave owner and as a Confederacy supporter, he should not be on this campus, especially right in front of Waco Hall,” the student added.
Another student, Sydney Davis, said that seeing many different races at the protest was reassuring.
“To know that we are supported not only by black people, but people of other colors, other races — it’s extremely important,” said Davis.
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Expel the troublemakers, then get a restraining order to stop them from trespassing.
Thank You Nikki Haley
Liberals bite the hands that feed them.
A better solution is to say any liberals that hates Baylor can be expelled.
When did they start studying history? Way to go!
Why worry about unwed mothers, single parent families, no husbands to provide discipline, rejection of education, or crime statistics when you can attack something that happened over 150 years ago?
Amazing how all this black sensitivity started about the same time that the Democrats noticed that Trump was attracting the black vote. Same is true for be a White Supremacist even when you aren’t. Coincidence? I think not. Their exploiting blacks again, just like they always do.
Expel them all instantly. No money back.
Yep.
The way race radicalized people are acting this statue isn’t what needs to be removed. Being woke, especially white and woke, should result in ejection from society and it’s institutions.
These morons are free to find another university more suitable to their politics.
Inmates are ruining the asylum.
Yes...I meant ruining.
Onilenla being an AFRICAN, descended from SLAVE OWNING and SELLING African tribal leaders.
Yeah— that carries some real gravitas.
No one is forced to go to Baylor. It’s a private university.
Don’t like the name?
Head out.
Universities have far outlived their usefulness.
Folks have finally realized that they are immensely overpriced indoctrination centers for their electronically addled children.
“These morons are free to find another university more suitable to their politics.”
What makes you think their politics are far different from the politics of Baylor?
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