University of Wisconsin-Madison Considers Removing ‘Racist’ Boulder

[rayg]

University of Wisconsin-Madison Considers Removing ‘Racist’ Boulder

I think things are going stupid now....

The Maybee rock became a source of controversy when students found that a 1925 newspaper clipping called the rock a "n****rhead," a common term at the time for large, dark rocks. The university confirmed that the clipping was the only known instance of the term being used on campus

UW-Madison's Black Student Union is also working to remove a statue of Abraham Lincoln from campus, due to his "genocide of Native Americans and his close proximity to Ho-Chunk effigy mounds," according to McWhorter.

Following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, black students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began calling for the removal of the rock, claiming that it was a reminder of the school's racist history. The school's Black Student Union kickstarted the campaign.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-of-wisconsin-madison-considers-removing-racist-boulder/

[togor]

Young people have ideas. Some of them are good but not all of them.

[lyman]

remember all those little concrete guys that held the lantern and were dressed like Jockey's that decorated a lot of lawns in the 60's?
most if not all were black painted faces and hands...

then suddenly got removed or painted white in the 80's and 90's,



just run down to big lots and buy a ton of paint, and let the art students take care of it,

[clintonhater]

UW-Madison's Black Student Union is also working to remove a statue of Abraham Lincoln from campus, due to his "genocide of Native Americans and his close proximity to Ho-Chunk effigy mounds," according to McWhorter.

Hope they go for it--poetic justice. Next, the Lincoln Monument in DC.

I would agree to accept the offending rock, if the students will cover shipping.

[clintonhater]

remember all those little concrete guys that held the lantern and were dressed like Jockey's that decorated a lot of lawns in the 60's?

Porch monkeys, you mean. The old ones were cast iron.

[clintonhater]

The Maybee rock became a source of controversy when students found that a 1925 newspaper clipping called the rock a "n****rhead," a common term at the time for large, dark rocks. The university confirmed that the clipping was the only known instance of the term being used on campus

To qualify as a "n****rhead," a rock doesn't have to be dark, only about the size of a human head or a little larger; in fact, of all the "n****rheads," I've seen, I don't recall any as being esp. dark. It's a popular word--I've heard it used from the South to the Northeast.

[Johnny P]

No more blacktopping highways. Too racist.

[S.A. Boggs]

No more blacktopping highways. Too racist.

Good one!
Sam

[dogtag]

It was probably one of white boulders. Racist rocks are even worse.