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University takes a stand, refuses to change its name due to slave owner ties
h/t Hot AirFinally. 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 2021-07-07 |
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