Monday, May 5, 2014

Rewriting history

Description: A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Gainesv...
Description: A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Gainesville, Florida, Dec. 31, 1922. Source: http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html. Portion: Reduced from original size so it is no longer suitable for reproduction. Purpose: To illustrate the article Ku Klux Klan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Students at some Southern schools want to change the names of buildings that carry the monikers of racists.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/05/duke-and-unc-debate-changing-names-buildings-honor-racists#sthash.GlVJQUaN.dpbs

I guess it's the same the world over. Think of statues of Stalin and Saddam Hussein being pulled down.

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