Posted on 08/16/2016 7:03:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will pay more than a million dollars to remove an inscription containing the word “Confederate” from one of its campus dorms.
The private university has referred to the Confederate Memorial Hall simply as “Memorial Hall” since 2002, but was blocked in court from changing the name chiseled on the building because it was constructed with the help of a $50,000 gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1933.
Under the agreement, Vanderbilt will pay $1.2 million, the equivalent of the gift made 83 years ago, to the organization’s Tennessee chapter. In exchange, the chapter will relinquish its naming rights to the building
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The irony is that the university’s namesake, Cornelius Vanderbilt, was the individual in whose “honor” the term “robber baron” was created. His business practices were so utterly ruthless that he even hired a soldier of fortune by name of William Walker to invade Nicaragua and overthrow its feeble government in order that he (Vanderbilt) could build an overland freight route from the Caribbean to the Pacific ocean by way of Lake Nicaragua which, prior to the Panama Canal, would have been the fastest and cheapest route to get goods to the west coast of America. Walker succeeded (on his second attempt), declared himself President of Nicaragua, and re-instituted the practice of slavery.
“The Commodore saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”
It beggars imagination how they could find the term “Confederate” distasteful when every building on campus as the name “Vanderbilt” on it.
Why does Vanderbilt want to offend Confederates?
“Help preserve history, heritage.”
But, but....
if you get rid of Southerners, Indians, _______________ there is no ‘heritage’ of America or even proof of her existence.
The Plan
When is the Democratic Party going to change its name from its black slave-owning, Civil War starting, Jim Crow, Segregationist, Racist, Margaret Sanger kill all non-whites past?
good post
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