Posted on 08/07/2021 3:12:50 PM PDT by aquila48
Under dappled sunlight filtering through the trees of Observatory Hill Friday morning, workers using a crane removed a large boulder from the UW-Madison campus that had become for many a painful symbol of the university’s racist past.
Chamberlin Rock, named for former university president and geologist Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, was at least once referred to as a “n——-head” rock in a 1925 Wisconsin State Journal story. University historians have not found any other time that the slur was used.
But the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus during that time. And the recent rediscovery of that long-ago news article prompted a reevaluation of an object that not only helped tell the story of the state’s geologic history but also served as a daily reminder of a more recent troubling past. Chamberlin Rock
Crews from JP Cullen and Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental work to remove Chamberlin Rock from Observatory Hill Friday morning. The 42-ton boulder had come to represent, for many, a racist era at UW-Madison. KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
The boulder is a rare, large example of a pre-Cambrian-era glacial erratic that experts say is likely over 2 billion years old. It was previously estimated to have weighed up to 70 tons, but an updated measurement from the removal places the boulder at 42 tons — the equivalent of about two fully loaded coach buses.
When will the Black Rock investment firm be renamed?
Wow. And to think this rock had been in the KKK the entire time.
Did the rock have a voter ID? Fingerprinted? I think my sisters Pet Rock was probably racist.
I heard it was an Obama Head boulder.
What about the Dirt , Grass and the Trees ?
There are no words.
Since almost every society has traces of slavery intertwined in its past. The only resolution is to wipe away the entire planet.
After all, it’s for the good of all.
While I’m being sarcastic. I’m sure somewhere out there is a secret society thinking about this right now.
Since almost every society has traces of slavery intertwined in its past. The only resolution is to wipe away the entire planet.
After all, it’s for the good of all.
While I’m being sarcastic. I’m sure somewhere out there is a secret society thinking about this right now.
When all of history is removed they will be writing their own. Won’t that be fun wallowing in bull droppings.
Could be true.
Probably why my sister always hid hers under her Barry Manilow 8-track cartridges.
As I said yesterday, the news that this was transported to "university owned land" by a lake means it will be a big tourist attraction and "go-to" place for selfies, IMHO.
Must be tens of thousands of bollards around the country that need replacing as well. After all, for scores of years (at least) they were called “n**** heads”.
No one is allowed to call them that anymore, but their very existence must be a hurtful affront.
I question the decision to let that racist rock survive. It should be crushed into millions of pieces of racist gravel and those pieces of racist gravel dumped into the ocean. It’s the least we can do at this point.
Madistan has been a Third World Shithole for a very long time. I couldn’t get out of that place fast enough!
So where are they taking the big “head of the negro” rock? Gonna smash it into gravel and scatter the remains for the wrong things it d did?
I am waiting for astronomers to be forced to use the term “hole of color.”
I don’t see any problem here other than more woke insanity.
Are you kidding me?
A single reference? 90 years ago?
And just because someone read it and reported it the rock had to go?
Note the “active KKK” mention as if that was some evidence this place was evil.
Classes haven’t even started and U of Wisconsin has already won the 2021-22 Big Ten Stupidity Olympics. Go Badgers!
I’m surprised that the left didn’t burn the rock to death!
At least they are now more merciful in their history eradication.
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