Princeton removes Woodrow Wilson's name from school, citing his 'racist thinking and policies'
By Jordan Muller
Politico
June 27, 2020
Princeton University on Saturday
announced it will remove former President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its
public and international affairs school in the wake of nationwide
protests against racism and police brutality.
“The trustees concluded that Woodrow
Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake
for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand
firmly against racism in all its forms,” said Christopher L. Eisgruber,
Princeton’s president, in a statement Saturday.
Students
had long called for the removal of the 28th president’s name from
Princeton’s public affairs school. The Ivy League college’s board of
trustees considered nixing Wilson’s name after student protests in 2015,
Eisgruber said. But the recent killings of Black men and women prompted
Princeton’s board to vote to remove Wilson’s name on Friday, he added.
Wilson, a Democrat who led Princeton
in the early 1900s and served as U.S. president between 1913 and 1921,
publicly advocated for and implemented racist policies, including
resegregating federal government workers after they had been integrated
for decades.
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” Eisgruber said.
Princeton is the latest college to
drop the name of a racist figure from a campus building or college in
the wake of nationwide protests over racism.
The University of Southern California in mid-June scrubbed the name of Rufus B. von KleinSmid, a eugenics advocate, from its public affairs school. Last week, Monmouth University said it would remove Wilson’s name from a prominent campus building. And on Tuesday, the University of Oregon announced it would rename a building dedicated to a white settler who helped ban Black people from the Oregon territory.
The removal of Wilson’s name also
comes as the country faces questions over memorials to Confederate
generals, colonial figures and racist politicians. The Army is considering scrubbing the names of Confederate leaders from bases, and protesters have torn down monuments celebrating Confederates, slave owners and colonizers.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order calling on the Justice Department to prioritize jailing demonstrators who damage federal monuments.
Princeton is also fast-tracking the removal of Wilson's name from a residential college, Eisgruber said Saturday.
5 comments:
The world has gone mad. Who's next.
Woodrow Wilson was a serious racist. He was the one who formally segregated the U. S. Army. However I strongly suspect most educated upper class White men of his time were racist. He was a product of his time.
Exactly. We need to understand and judge folks from the societal norms at the time. 50 years from now, folks that were not 100 percent supportive of gay marriage will be viewed as homophobic bigots. This, despite the fact that people were overwhelmingly against gay marriage until recently.
Decent people were raised in the norms of their time and should not be held to an evolved standard that was an extreme View at the time.
Gone mad how? It's always been mad, but now people are taking a stand against inequalities. Wilson was a hard core racist, much like Trump now. Racism and religion are the great banes of modern civilization and both need to be done away with.
Don't forget the Illuminati, the CFR and the Bilderbergers. We should do away with them also. And the PTA. And NASA. No reason why we should pay for another faked moon landing when we can fake more useful stuff. We could spend the money on more phantom planes to spread chemtrails across the sky to that our brain implants work better.
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