In light of the disclosure that Yale was founded by a slave trader and owner, I believe it is time for the school to be removed from the Ivy League. I think the only fair response is to change the name of the school, make it free for all African-Americans and join the HBCU. It is time for Ivy League elitistist like Robert, Weldon and John to take a stand against an institution so steeped in historical and systemic racism. #CancelYale.
If we can tear down all of the statues in America for their racist past, Yale 100% needs to be renamed. I doubt it will because the hypocrisy is unbelievable among today's left.
The Ivy League is an athletic conference. A member school could certainly change its name without forfeiting membership.
0.5/ 10 I giggled.
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In light of the disclosure that Yale was founded by a slave trader and owner, I believe it is time for the school to be removed from the Ivy League. I think the only fair response is to change the name of the school, make it free for all African-Americans and join the HBCU. It is time for Ivy League elitistist like Robert, Weldon and John to take a stand against an institution so steeped in historical and systemic racism. #CancelYale.
Not recently disclosed - it's a matter of historical fact that Elihu Yale was a slave trader, and it has been in Wikipedia and other reference volumes forever.
Just today, Wikipedia removed references to Elihu Yale's slave trading. From Wikipedia's history file:
curprev 20:54, 21 June 2020 Kalamath talk contribs 16,734 bytes +477 The nature of Elihu Yale's involvement in the slave trade is disputed and unclear. These changes point that out and provide more comprehensive information. Also, for that reason, removed the recently added "slave trader" from the lede. Tag: Visual edit
It seems this bit of cancel culture hit a nerve.
Yale has $30B. Do you all comprehend that? We are discussion having poor white people kick in money for reparations when Yale has $30B and has professors earning $200k per year. This is insanity. Disband the university. Sell the buildings. Donate the proceeds with the other $30B and that takes care of many problems in this country.
With an endowment of 30billion, they could give every student a free education in perpetuity.
The woke culture is eating its own.
Leland Stanford was a robber baron and a racist who used Chinese slave labor to build the western portion of the Transcontinetal Railroad.
He said, "To my mind it is clear, that the settlement among us of an inferior race is to be discouraged by every legitimate means. Asia, with her numberless millions, sends to our shores the dregs of her population. Large numbers of this class are already here; and, unless we do something early to check their immigration, the question, which of the two tides of immigration, meeting upon the shores of the Pacific, shall be turned back, will be forced upon our consideration, when far more difficult than now of disposal. There can be no doubt but that the presence among us of numbers of degraded and distinct people must exercise a deleterious influence upon the superior race, and to a certain extent, repel desirable immigration.[33]"
Get this, Stanford University in 2020 still discriminates against Chinese applicants.
It is time to destroy all of the ties to history before 2020, including track WRs. I think all Ivy league schools have so many skeletons in their closet that the BLM should probably target them and take them down one way or another.
Make Ivy colleges open to anyone who asks as long as you cross their property line. That would be egality.
Boy this could actually be a fun summer if we get to the point that these anti free speech libs eat their own. Ba bye Yale!!
We should require that Stanford allows anyone to come to their campus based on a weighted lottery which is not based on GPA, SAT, accomplishments or recommendations. The Ivies have way too many ties to history to survive the destruction coming to campuses near you.
This is the history of slavery:
This is a small fraction of the history of slavery in Africa.
French historian Fernand Braudel noted that slavery was endemic in Africa and part of the structure of everyday life. "Slavery came in different guises in different societies: there were court slaves, slaves incorporated into princely armies, domestic and household slaves, slaves working on the land, in industry, as couriers and intermediaries, even as traders".[20] During the 16th century, Europe began to outpace the Arab world in the export traffic, with its slave traffic from Africa to the Americas. The Dutch imported slaves from Asia into their colony in South Africa. In 1807 Britain, which held extensive, although mainly coastal, colonial territories on the African continent (including southern Africa), made the international slave trade illegal, as did the United States in 1808.[21]
In Senegambia, between 1300 and 1900, close to one-third of the population was enslaved. In early Islamic states of the Western Sudan, including Ghana (750–1076), Mali (1235–1645), Segou (1712–1861), and Songhai (1275–1591), about a third of the population was enslaved. In Sierra Leone in the 19th century about half of the population consisted of slaves. In the 19th century at least half the population was enslaved among the Duala of the Cameroon, the Igbo and other peoples of the lower Niger, the Kongo, and the Kasanje kingdom and Chokwe of Angola. Among the Ashanti and Yoruba a third of the population consisted of slaves. The population of the Kanem was about a third slave. It was perhaps 40% in Bornu (1396–1893). Between 1750 and 1900 from one- to two-thirds of the entire population of the Fulani jihad states consisted of slaves. The population of the Sokoto caliphate formed by Hausas in northern Nigeria and Cameroon was half-slave in the 19th century. It is estimated that up to 90% of the population of Arab-Swahili Zanzibar was enslaved. Roughly half the population of Madagascar was enslaved.[22][23][page needed][24][25][26]
Slavery in Ethiopia persisted until 1942. The Anti-Slavery Society estimated that there were 2,000,000 slaves in the early 1930s, out of an estimated population of between 8 and 16 million.[27] It was finally abolished by order of emperor Haile Selassie on 26 August 1942.[28]
When British rule was first imposed on the Sokoto Caliphate and the surrounding areas in northern Nigeria at the turn of the 20th century, approximately 2 million to 2.5 million people there were slaves.[29] Slavery in northern Nigeria was finally outlawed in 1936.[30]
Elikia M'bokolo, April 1998, Le Monde diplomatique. Quote: "The African continent was bled of its human resources via all possible routes. Across the Sahara, through the Red Sea, from the Indian Ocean ports and across the Atlantic. At least ten centuries of slavery for the benefit of the Muslim countries (from the ninth to the nineteenth)." He continues: "Four million slaves exported via the Red Sea, another four million through the Swahili ports of the Indian Ocean, perhaps as many as nine million along the trans-Saharan caravan route, and eleven to twenty million (depending on the author) across the Atlantic Ocean"[31]
What about Dale or Doug University?
and yet some morons destroy, Grant's statue. You know, the guy that opposed slavery.
Better yet for the entire slate of elitist universities that make up the Ivy League to be reformed. Elites have been using levers, the Ivies among them, to maintain their hold on power in the US since almost the beginning. They are part of what amounts to a large welfare system for the elites and their children.
You want equality and a vibrant middle class? Destroy the vestiges of generational wealth and elite institutions that exist to feather their nests.
This will never happen. The tolerant Left is a pile of hypocrites.
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Yale has $30B. Do you all comprehend that? We are discussion having poor white people kick in money for reparations when Yale has $30B and has professors earning $200k per year. This is insanity. Disband the university. Sell the buildings. Donate the proceeds with the other $30B and that takes care of many problems in this country.
What problems do you think can be solved with a mere 30 billion? That is less than the cost of 3 aircraft carriers for example. Or on the order of the cost of the big dig. NYC spends about 30 billion/year on education.
30 billion is a lot of money. It is a drop in the bucket when you start looking at big problems.
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Boy this could actually be a fun summer if we get to the point that these anti free speech libs eat their own. Ba bye Yale!!
Libs?
Taft
Ford
Bush I
Bush II
Where do Republicans think their candidates get their degrees?