The President of Princeton University has announced that the University will remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the public policy school.
Unreported are the plans to exhume his body and impeach him for high crimes and sentence him to death for treason. OK, so it’s not reported because I made it up to show the ludicrousness of these actions. Stupid is as stupid does.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the USA from 1913 to 1921. He was the president of Princeton University. And, he was a Democrat. He is also considered, by some, to be the birth of race relations in the USA as we know them today.
He has been criticized for being a racist because, according to the Foxnews.com post, he capitulated to pressure to segregate government departments reversing a period of integration.1 No doubt that Wilson was a racist by today’s standards.
Now Christopher Eisgruber (President of Princeton University) is capitulating to pressure to remove all references to Wilson from the University and it’s programs. Princeton has been resisting the attempts to remove Wilson’s references for years. Princeton has also recognized that the removal of Wilson from the public policy school was a mute point because it was to happen in the near future anyway due to remodeling and rebuilding.
Until now, Princeton has been regarded as a prestigious school of higher education of Ivy League learning. It now has shown itself to be a pretentious school of ivy league stupidity and racism.
There is no doubt that racism has and is occurring world wide. Burying our head in the sand will not change that fact. Erasing history will only determine that we will repeat it. It always has and always will.
An institution of higher learning is charged with the task of educating. No less, no more. Now, Princeton has shown that it has no intention of educating anyone. It’s only intent is to blow where the wind dictates at the whims of the wind. L’Oreal wants to remove white from it’s products, football wants to kneel in protest or some company wants to screen it’s content for racial correctness; that’s all fine with me. But for a supposed institution of learning to try to change history instead of teach it, is stupid, destructive and counterproductive beyond belief.
From your grumpy Uncle Dave.
- Peter Aitken. June 27, 2020. Foxnews.com. Princeton drops Woodrow Wilson’s name from school due to ‘racist thinking’, The trustees voted to remove the name on Friday. Retrieved June 27, 2020 from https://www.foxnews.com/us/princeton-drops-woodrow-wilson-racist-thinking