[stainlessbanner]

You knew this was coming (ala Vanderbilt).

Who's next? PSU?

[San Jacinto]

Just change it to the Pepsi Building.

[Aggie Mama]

Do you have a ping list?

[hopespringseternal]

according to The Eagle

The Butt citing The Beagle. The blind leading the blind.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know anything about Richard Coke or Matthew Gaines, but most men who were lynched for cattle rustling in the West were white...lynching is obviously wrong, but the writer fails to show that Coke's attitude in this case was because of the race of the alleged rustlers.

General Sheridan would have removed Coke in 1867 pursuant to the Radical Republican program of removing the elected governments of the ten ex-Confederate states which had refused to ratify the 14th amendment and creating new governments under the guidance of the occupying forces...Coke's removal says nothing about his personal merits or failings other than to show that he must have been popular among white Texans in 1866.

Coke was on a commission which recommended relocating Comanches? Again, I don't know anything further about Coke's role, but let's get our priorities straight: first we need to remove Andrew Jackson's name from cities, counties, and streets everywhere in the U.S. because of his responsibility for the Trail of Tears.

[TheSarce]

Sanctimonious PC drivel ping....

[Arthur McGowan]

It's a disgrace that a university building should be named after a man with no moral compass, like this 19th-Century racist. Thank God we are morally superior to those people. They should rename it after a 20th-Century hero, like Harry Blackmun.

[NativeNewYorker]

I think it's great that air-headed race-baiters keep reminding people to vote for the GOP.

For the record, I ALWAYS have a picture of a white slave-owner in my wallet.

[Wallace T.]

If we were to remove the names of political leaders of the past who harbored racist views or were slaveholders, we would essentially scrub all of America of monument, street, city, and county names. Our national capital would be nameless, as would be the capitals of Ohio (Columbus), South Carolina (Columbia), Mississippi (Jackson), Nebraska (Lincoln), and Missouri (Jefferson City). Then, on the same line of thought, we ought to purge names that harken to our Christian past, as such names must offend our non-Christian fellow citizens. Then, other state capitals would be nameless: California (Sacramento), Rhode Island (Providence), New Mexico (Santa Fe), and Minnesota (St. Paul).

The leftist penchant for expunging heroes of the American past has clear parallels in Bolshevik Russia, where all names that suggested the Orthodox and Tsarist past were systematically expunged to glorify the new pantheon of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.

That the name of the Texas governor who freed his state from the yoke of the Yankee carpetbaggers and their Southern scalawag allies would be suggested at Texas A&M, historically a conservative school, is a sad sign of the decline of this nation.

[steve-b]

Coke's life is composed of disgusting personal lifestyle decisions and a dubious political career.

I take it that there will never be a "William Jefferson Clinton" building on campus, then....

[1L]

Just say it's named after the soft drink and let them advertise in there. The University gets more revenue, the idiots that dreamed up all this stuff won't know the difference, and the rest of us can go about our business.

[ewing]