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https://newrepublic.com/minutes/124437/princeton-students-calling-woodrow-
wilsons-racism-good
Princeton students are calling out Woodrow Wilson's racism. Good.While
protesters at Mizzou may have taken down a university system president, some
students at Princeton are going after an even more imposing foe: our 28th
president.
Student activists held a sit-in last week demanding that Princeton remove
the name of the alumnus and former professor and university president from
all campus buildings, including the prestigious School for Public and
International Affairs. That’s a huge ask, as political scientist (and
Princeton alum) Corey Robin noted on his site last weekend. “Wilson is
Princeton,” he wrote.
Why are the students doing this? Wilson was a big, ol’ racist, that’s why.
It doesn’t look like they’ll win, but Robin, in his Salon column, argued
correctly that we owe these students a debt. By forcing the debate about
Wilson’s advocacy of white supremacy and segregation, Robin argued that “
Princeton’s students are actually doing the job that Princeton itself is
supposed to be doing: They’re educating all of us.”
From Mizzou to Yale, we’ve found the civil rights champions we’ve been
looking for on America’s campuses. But having attended a university
littered with Ben Franklin statues, what grabs me about the Princeton moment
is its target. Like activists at Georgetown, these students are attacking
the silent bigotry that exists in the monuments and murals of racists long
dead, worshiped by the institution that purports to have the students’
backs. It can sting as much as a racial slur uttered by a classmate. Even if
Princeton keeps Wilson around, these students are forcing a reckoning that
would not have otherwise happened.
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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/19/new-york-times-digital-princeton
Princeton Agrees to Consider Removing a President’s Name
By Liam Stack and Gabriel Fisher
Saturday, 21 Nov 2015 | 10:42 AM ETThe New York Times144
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Source: Denise Applewhite | Office of Communications | Princeton University
Princeton students ended a 32-hour sit-in in the university president’s
office on Thursday night after administrators signed a document that
committed them to begin conversations about addressing racial tension on
campus, including possibly removing the name of formerPresident Woodrow
Wilson from some public spaces, the university and students said.
The sit-in came amid racial tension and escalating student activism on
college campuses nationwide and focused in part on what students called
Wilson’s legacy of racism. Shortly after the document was signed, an
administrator received a bomb or firearm threat by email. After an
investigation, university officials said Friday, the threat was deemed not
credible.
Wilson graduated from Princeton in 1879 and served as its president from
1902 to 1910 before becoming president of the United States from 1913 until
1921. Historians often remember him for liberal internationalism amid the
horrors of World War I, but he also held a number of racist views. | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 2 haha,Wilson可是民党力薄肉的先驱，老黑就尽情咬吧。 | l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 3 如果都上纲上线的话，
美国有几位品学皆优的好总统？ | K*****2
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