Posted on 01/26/2016 1:22:50 PM PST by C19fan
Lord Jeffery Amherst, the colonial military commander who gave this town its name, will no longer represent the prestigious liberal arts college here.
The board of trustees at Amherst College announced on Tuesday that it had decided ânot to employ this reference in its official communications, its messaging and its symbolism (including in the name of the Inn, the only place on the campus where the Lord Jeffery name officially appears).â
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Relevant letters in bold:
Sacajawea
(If you wanted to be brazen, one could go with a mascot that mocks Mattress Girl.)
Amherst is fag central. The Iron Horse is a decent music venue, but you have to wend your way past throngs of purple-haired, nipple-pierced freaks to get to it.
“Sacajawea: I have nothing against her, but hasn’t her historical role been widely exaggerated?”
She was schlepped along as a bed-warmer and cook. She was marginally useful as a translator when they bumped into people who spoke a language she had a few words of, picked up while she was held as a sex slave.
She had a rough life, but was hardly anyone I would commend to any of my daughters.
There should be no ethnically connected groups allowed on college campuses.
Guess these revisionists never heard of the Deerfield Massacre, The Hadley, Springfield or the Cherry Valley Massacres, King Phillips War or any number of mass killings of whites by the native population. Or perhaps History is not taught anymore?
http://www.politicsandthelifesciences.org/Biosecurity_course_folder/readings/fenn.html
http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html
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