Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Erasing history: HS senior starts petition to eliminate 'James Madison' from school name - The College Fix

Erasing history: HS senior starts petition to eliminate 'James Madison' from school name - The College Fix:
"Alleging that the name of our fourth president “contributes to a hostile school culture,” a high school senior wants the moniker “James Madison” excised from James Madison Memorial High School.
The school is located in — wait for it — Madison, Wisconsin.
Image result for Safe Spaces College CartoonPresident Madison, according to a report in The Capital Times, had inherited over 100 slaves and it’s “estimated that at least five generations of enslaved African-Americans lived at [his] Montpelier plantation.”
Student Mya Berry began a Change.org petition early last week and it currently has 1,430 signatures, just 70 short of its goal. 
On it Berry writes, “The significance of [Madison’s] name in association with my school has a negative effect on memorials [sic] black students. 
The lack of representation I feel in this school makes me feel more than unsafe.”...
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