Elihu Yale was a slave trader.
Leland Stanford was a racist.
These are the schools we tell our kids to kill themselves over, for parents to cheat over and for society to fawn over.
But their founders were scumbags.
Leland Stanford was a racist.
These are the schools we tell our kids to kill themselves over, for parents to cheat over and for society to fawn over.
But their founders were scumbags.
Here’s Leland Stanford, father of @Stanford on blacks:
“The cause in which we are engaged is one of the greatest in which any can labor. It is the cause of the white man…I am in favor of free white American citizens.”
Going further...he said...
“The cause in which we are engaged is one of the greatest in which any can labor. It is the cause of the white man…I am in favor of free white American citizens.”
Going further...he said...
“I prefer free white citizens to any other race. I prefer the white man to the negro as an inhabitant to our country. I believe its greatest good has been derived by having all of the country settled by free white men.”
His views on Asians were also despicable...
His views on Asians were also despicable...
“The presence of numbers of that degraded…people [Chinese-Americans] would exercise a deleterious effect upon the superior [white] race….To my mind it is clear that [Asian-American] settlement among us is to be discouraged by every legitimate means.”
I’m not surprised that this discussion hasn’t come up earlier but in this moment, what do these schools do? Do they change their names or just (literally) whitewash their founders’ pasts?
