Anything else is blatant racism
The author isn’t staying on the
Liberal plantation. /s
Yale needs to be tasked with fixing New Haven.
Change the name to Leftist Puppy Mill #1
Elihu Yale, whom Yale is named for, was also involved in the slave trade?
Quote from the article:
As an official for the East India Company in Madras (present-day Chennai), Yale presided over an important node of the Indian Ocean slave trade.
In the 1680s, when Yale served on the governing council at Fort St. George on the Madras coast, a devastating famine led to an uptick in the local slave trade. As more and more bodies became available on the open market, Yale and other company officials took advantage of the labor surplus, buying hundreds of slaves and shipping them to the English colony on Saint Helena.
Yale participated in a meeting that ordered a minimum of ten slaves sent on every outbound European ship. In just one month in 1687, Fort St. George exported at least 665 individuals.
As governor and president of the Madras settlement, Yale enforced the ten-slaves-per-vessel rule. On two separate occasions, he sentenced “black Criminals” accused of burglary to suffer whipping, branding, and foreign enslavement.
Although he probably did not own any of these people — the majority were held as the property of the East India Company — he certainly profited both directly and indirectly from their sale.
I seem to recall, during the really old days, Fred Flintstone was a half back at Shale University.
Just think of all those resumes that will have to be updated and all of those diary entries as well. Then they can go back and correct all of the history texts and novels that have or mention Yale. This should be a new industry to ‘unperson’ this institution.
‘I resided at ? (formerly “John C. Calhoun”) while I matriculated at ? (formerly “Yale University”)!’
Query: Will Yale locks need to be renamed?
Graduating from Yale just became the kiss of death on a job resume’.
The list of “persona non grata” college grads just keeps growing.
Yale fraternity Skull and Bones (not really a fraternity, but a 501c3 organization, btw) was founded in 1932 by Joseph Robinson. The Robinson family made their money in the Opium trade.
Trump should take away their tax free status and charge them back taxes. According to rumor (and past members) when a member dies he leaves 10% of his estate to Skull and Bones. They must have hundreds of millions of dollars.
People fail to grasp the import of acts mentioned in the article: i.e. such acts are part of the total war being waged against Western Civilization. A war by the way the West is losing. The West will be the first civilization toppled solely by means of words.
“If Yale is opening the door to renaming its residential colleges, how can it stop there, when Elihu Yale, whom Yale is named for, was also involved in the slave trade?
“As an official for the East India Company in Madras (present-day Chennai), Yale presided over an important node of the Indian Ocean slave trade.
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“So how can Yale stop at renaming residential colleges? The answer is that once it opens the door to this, it can’t. Elihu Yale did good things and bad, but even though the university named for him is not (yet) associated in people’s minds with the slave trade, just as Calhoun College is not, that will not be good enough. It will never be over for the Left, even after Harvard and Yale become Che Guevara College and Obama U.”
The only hope to satisfy the young leftist heads full of mush will be to rename Calhoun College and Yale U. after persons with unimpeachable credentials: radical feminist, atheist lesbians of black, Hispanic, and Pacific Islander descent. They can do no wrong in the current climate, right?
Idiots on the move.
Pretty sad stuff, everything considered.
i thought they were going to change the name because no illegal Dreamers wanted to go to yail...
Ivy Plague School
Mohammed University, since he never practiced slavery. What, he did? Well he probably would’ve voted for obama, so that’s okay.
Calhoun just wasn't a Connecticut or East Coast guy. It would be different if we were talking about something in South Carolina.
It might also be different if Yale's residential colleges had an illustrious history, but they only go back to the 1930s -- within the living memory of some people still alive.
If the university is embarrassed by their own name, they could just say that from now on they are going to be named after Linus Yale (of the lock-making family) or Frankie Yale (Al Capone's mentor).
