Some Princeton students are demanding the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs be renamed,because despite Woodrow's contributions to the university as school president and to the country as the 28th president of the United States, he has a well-documented record of racial prejudice. Eddie Glaude, or the chair of Princeton's current department of African-American studies and the president-elect of the American Academy of Religion, says the importance of these protests is not so much about renaming the building, but rather about "confronting the ugliness of our past so we can better understand the ugliness of our present."
Princeton students initiate to sit in the president's office. pic.twitter.com/38GmvL4J7tNovember 18, and 2015
People are morally complex. Always have been. But that isn't a sufficient response to the legacy of evils that continue to shape our livesNovember 19,2015professorsays folks are looking at the complexity of Woodrow Wilson - not trying to erase but instead confront past.
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