Renaming buildings won’t erase racist past: #tellusatoday

Some Princeton students are calling for Woodrow Wilson’s name to be taken off buildings because of his racist views. Comments from Twitter are edited for clarity and grammar:

I am all for learning from the past, but uncomfortable with this way of judging the past.

— @dfcowan

It’s simply the legacy of the Democratic Party, slavery and Jim Crow. Removing Wilson’s name would be a start.

— @nealstermc

With that logic, we would need to get rid of everything named after the Founding Fathers. They were all racist in some way or another.

— @UKfanofwalla2

Get over it. It was 100 years ago. Hey, Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Let’s tear down his monument.

— @BHSushi

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History is bloody, brutal, sexist, racist. Erasing does not encourage learning.

— @ParanormalSarah

Students calling for the removal of Wilson are in order. Racists should have no place in universities.

— @ComradeAbubakar

For too many years, many white people have had our heads in the sand when it comes to racism. Removing Wilson is a start.

— @jiclark2002

Today’s digital native students appear to think you’re either saint or sinner; any blemish earns banishment.

— @NianticRebel

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