Is it just me, or is it starting to feel like every other week another college or university is taking steps to address its “legacy of racism.” The latest school to acknowledge its racist history is Georgia’s Emory University, which announced on Monday it would begin the process of renaming some of its buildings to address what it called “a legacy of racism, disenfranchisement, and dispossession.”
AJC reports that the university will rename its Language Hall building on the Oxford campus after Horace J. Johnson Jr., a Black man who helped integrate public schools in Newton County and became the first Black Superior Court judge to serve in the Alcovy Judicial Circuit in 2002. Johnson died last year from natural causes.
In addition to Language Hall, the school’s Longstreet-Means residence hall will be renamed to simply Eagle Hall. The building currently takes its namesake from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. He was the university’s president from 1839-1848 and was all about slavery and secession, and very much against abolition.
Good, wipe out all evidence of slavery then we won’t have to listen to the shit anymore. This generation of dumbass blacks are doing a great disservice to the future generations. But this is the most self serving, all about me blacks yet.