Posted on 08/23/2017 7:15:50 PM PDT by TigerClaws
University of Virginia students have issued a list of demands regarding a statue of Thomas Jefferson on campus because his visage allegedly serves as “an emblem of white supremacy.”
President Trump asked reporters on Aug. 15 if violence in Charlottesville over historical monuments would inspire campaigns against the nation’s third present. A coalition of minority student groups answered his call less than one week later with a list of demands for administrators.
The Minority Rights Coalition hosted a “March to Reclaim Our Grounds” on Aug. 21, at which point they revealed a ten-point ultimatum obtained by Campus Reform on Wednesday.
“The statue of Jefferson serves as an emblem of white supremacy, and should be re-contextualized with a plaque to include that history,” the students wrote.
The students also called for mandatory “education on white supremacy, colonization, and slavery as they directly relate to Thomas Jefferson, the University, and the city of Charlottesville,” the education watchdog reported.
Sixteen minority groups signed the “March to Reclaim Our Grounds” petition prior to its unveiling. Their effort comes in the wake of Aug. 12 protests by white supremacist groups over the removal of a Confederate statue depicting General Robert E. Lee.
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School administrators need to grow a pair and tell them if they don't like it, they can leave. This Snowflake Blackmail needs to be quashed before it gets started.
It appears the time has to come to completely eliminate ALL Taxpayer funding of any kind to education.
Soooo, if they’re really upset by this stuff, why did they choose to go to Virginia to begin with?
This has not been a problem for a couple of hundred years, but the last two weeks it suddenly is one.
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. It is called Mr. jefferson’s University. These whiners knew that when they applied.
They better not go full retard...
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/12/mizzou-closing-four-whole-dorms-because-of-collapsing-enrollment/
Should the Black Congressional Caucus, NAACP and BLM be considered “Black Supremacists”???
What about the BET TV channel???
These people should not be in a university. They should get an answer to their demands and it should be NO. They are there to learn, if they can not spend their time in a more useful manner perhaps more obligatory courses should be imposed. Calculus should be a freshman requirement and if they keep it up Quantum Physics should be added.
Muhammad bought, captured, and owned slaves.. selling woman specifically as sex slaves ... So Can we start tearing down mosques now ?
BURN In The Flames Of HELL The Lot Of You!!!
Another example of the patients running the asylum.
Tell these idiots to comply with campus guidelines or leave campus and never come back.
Teachers that compel them to act out, should be gone tomorrow.
Good call. I didn’t know that.
When are our universities going to start developing a back-bone?
Just wholesale dismiss students who cause trouble.
Next year there won’t be any.
Visage; I guess so. Jefferson was the supreme intellectual!
I wonder how much in tourist dollarswill be lost with the removal & desecration of monuments & statues?
IT’S HISTORY!!!!!
Do they get mad if someone gives them change that includes nickels? Maybe they have never noticed whose likeness is on the nickel.
UVa needs to shut down. Fire the students, facuity ans staff and become a museum.
Some native American?
“School administrators need to grow a pair and tell them if they don’t like it, they can leave.”
You have hit the nail with your head.
Student/children are part of the problem, yes - but administrators are the largest problem. Weak. Ignorant. Left wing. Just terrible.
The problem is, it takes strong political leadership at the state level to reform education, especially Big Education. The political leadership in states like Virginia, California and many other places is just . . . corrupt.
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