{"id":106737,"date":"2020-10-29T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106737"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:14:42","slug":"abraham-lincoln-world-renowned-racist-white-supremacist-so-says-uw-madison-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106737","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln, world renowned racist white supremacist – So says UW-Madison students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MADISON WI\/USA – JUNE 26 2014: Bascom Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The University of Wisconsin is a Big Ten University in the United States.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How has this school failed these students so spectacularly? The history department dean should be immediately fired. They’re calling a statue of The Great Emancipator a remnant of “white supremacy.” This is all part of a classic Marxist revisionist history when they euphemistically say, “Lincoln’s legacy has changed as we start to call out history.”<\/p>\n

Campus Reform<\/a> is reporting;<\/p>\n

The University of Wisconsin-Madison student government unanimously voted in favor of a resolution that calls for the removal of the Abraham Lincoln statue on campus.<\/p>\n

In June, Campus Reformreported that UW-Madison would not remove the Lincoln statue despite students\u2019 calls in favor of doing so. In September, a petition titled \u201cBIPOC Demands for the University of Wisconsin-Madison\u201d garnered more than 3,000 signatures. The first demand states, \u201cRemove the Abraham Lincoln monument located at the top of Bascom Hill and replace it with someone who stands for the justice of all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students argue that President Lincoln was “anti-Black,\u201d “anti-Native\u201d and \u201cnot pro-Black.”<\/p>\n

Following these calls to remove the statue, a resolution was introduced to the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) Student Council advocating for the removal of the Lincoln statue on campus.<\/p>\n

The resolution states that the statue should be removed and replaced because it \u201cserve[s] as remnants of this school\u2019s history of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to create an inclusive and safe environment for all students, campus fixtures with racist remnants should be reevaluated and then removed and\/or replaced based on inputs from BIPOC students,\u201d the resolution states.<\/p>\n

When asked how the statue serves as a \u201cremnant\u201d of \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d Shared Governance Campaign Director for ASM and co-sponsor of the resolution Kevin Jacobson told Campus Reform that the statue \u201csits at the top of Bascom Hill, a Native American burial mound. Abraham Lincoln is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Native Americans over the course of his presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was also donated by Richard Lloyd Jones whose newspaper was responsible for inciting the Tulsa Race Riots which resulted in the deaths of 36 people and over 800 injuries mostly against Black residents,\u201d Jacobson continued. \u201cWe are advocating for the university to listen to the BIPOC students and have conversations about these remnants.”<\/p>\n

Equity & inclusion committee chair of ASM Brandon Springer also told Campus Reform that Lincoln’s “legacy” allows for white supremacy to have a role on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cLincoln’s legacy has changed as we start to call out history and although Lincoln might not have directly pushed a white supremacy agenda on campus, his legacy still allows for issues rooted in white supremacy to exist on campus,” Springer said.<\/p>\n

Springer told Campus Reform that the \u201cmeasure was passed by unanimous consent, so there was not a present member that voted against the legislation as approved.\u201d<\/p>\n

UW-Madison senior Evan Karabas told Campus Reform that the statue is a “cherished symbol” on campus and doesn’t want to see it removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe statue has been a cherished symbol on campus for generations. Many would agree that the most significant part of President Lincoln\u2019s legacy was securing freedom for the slaves, and we should celebrate that as a proud moment in our country\u2019s history,” Karabas said.<\/p>\n

The resolution also demands a \u201cpermanent funding structure\u201d for student organizations that are catered towards \u201cpredominantly marginalized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main sponsor of the resolution, Crystal Zhao, told Campus Reform that even though the vote was unanimous, \u201cnot all representatives in ASM agree that Abraham Lincoln Statue should be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that said, Abraham Lincoln is a representation of ethnic cleansing of indigenous folks and the fact that UW-Madison stands on stolen land. Many students do not feel comfortable seeing him every day when we used to walk to classes. And his presence on Bascom shows that UW-Madison does not care about the ‘shared future’ plan we have with Ho-Chuck people and other first nations,\u201d Zhao continued.<\/p>\n

Karabas told Campus Reform that the result of the vote was \u201cextremely disappointing but not at all surprising.\u201d He added that the decision does not reflect the student body because the student government has \u201clargely failed to connect\u201d with the majority of students.<\/p>\n

The College Republicans started a petition in support of keeping the statue where it is.<\/p>\n

Karabas told Campus Reform that it has amassed more than 1,500 signatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis resolution is the result of a generation of students who have not learned even the most basic history of our country. Instead, they have been manipulated by professors, social media echo chambers, leftist media, and groupthink into developing a bitter hatred for the United States and its people. All they\u2019ve been taught to do is destroy, without questioning the motives of those who are inciting the destruction,\u201d Karabas concluded.<\/p>\n

UW-Madison Director of News and Media Relations Meredith Mcglone told Campus Reform that the university stands by its June statement from Chancellor Rebecca Blank on the matter, which expresses that the statue will not be removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone else wonder why these woke geniuses attend a college that costs between $10,725 and $37,785 a year in tuition alone if it’s such an institution of white supremacy and “stands on stolen land?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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