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| University takes a stand, refuses to change its name due to slave owner ties |
| 2021-07-07 |
| h/t Hot Air Finally. One university is standing up and speaking out against assumptions that it will change its name after the discovery that it is named after a slave owner. Wingate University in North Carolina announced it will not be changing its name. Instead, it is "time to reclaim the Wingate name". In May, Wingate University, a private Judeo-Christian university with campuses in Wingate, Charlotte, and Hendersonville, North Carolina recently learned it is named for a slaveowner, Washington Manly Wingate. It was founded in 1896. Sixteen enslaved people were sold to fund the university’s endowment under his leadership. ????????? The discovery was part of research by Wake Forest University. Seems to me - ignorant furriner that I am - that it stopped being about actually improving "African Americans" situation, and become pandering to their feelings of inadequacy - as imagined by white liberals (who, IMO, ARE inadequate) |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Wake Forest University announced today, May 7, 2021, it would rename a portion of its Wait Chapel from Wingate Hall to May 7, 1860 Hall. The date reflects when 16 enslaved people were sold to fund Wake’s initial endowment under the leadership of then-president Washington Manly Wingate. It's Wake Forest that was endowed, not Wingate U. Karen Townsend is a dunce. But - I fully expect the Wingate select panel to recommend a name change. |
| Posted by: KBK 2021-07-07 13:22 |
| #2 I had Bee. that it stopped being about actually improving "African Americans" situation From the New American Bible - National Education Association (NEA) version: "For it is better to fan the flame of grievance and stoke the fires of resentment than to teach the children algebra." |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-07-07 09:11 |
| #1 It was founded in 1896. Sixteen enslaved people were sold to fund the university’s endowment under his leadership. What the hey? Slavery ended in 1865. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2021-07-07 08:41 |