re: What ridiculously stupid thing will Auburn University do?

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Blacks may have been freed b/c of the Civil War, but they were still going to be segregated and treated poorly UNTIL civil rights in the mid 50's and 60's.

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In case you haven’t been paying attention, they are still being treated poorly and we still have segregation, even if it isn’t state sponsored anymore. Again, the storied Confederacy lasted the same amount of time I spent at Auburn. Time to let it go.

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I don’t think many (if any) of us give a shite about the confederate war

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It sure sounds like a lot of people do..

And no, I don’t really care one way or another about most building names/statues. But it doesn’t mean there are people that don’t have a valid reason for feeling that way.

As always, it’s the extreme people on both sides that are getting the attention right now.

I’m very happy the way our AD and head coaches have handled the situation right now

These idiots don't have any rhyme or reasons to their demands. They are trying cancel George Washington.

I don't give a shite if GW had slaves, it was a norm of the times. I think any rational person can see that the good outweighs the bad with someone like George Washington and the same applies to other historical figures being attacked right now.

I am literally fearful that my infant won't learn about George Washington and other important figures in school one day, that is outrageous.

I'm wondering what the nut (ball) less President of Florida will do when the student section starts the Gator Chomp. Stop the game and march them out in unison? That all came about because the fraud supposedly "read about the supposed use of black children to bait gators."

So the thought is to discriminate against the majority because it is deemed to discriminate against a monority group?

I will add...i hate this cancel culture we are going through...because they don't know where to stop...

And the politicians are getting sucked right into it..It's called White guilt according to Shelby Steele who has a better handle on what should be happening instead of what is going on now...

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I learned my history from books, not statues that were erected 75 years after the Civil War to placate people who were worked up about civil rights.

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They'll come for those too.

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Textbooks have already changed a lot. I remember when John Calhoun was considered a young star along with Henry Clay and Webster.

And obviously books like Huck Finn have been cleaned up a bunch.

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That would be interesting to see what changes they have made to American History books and compare a school history book from the 1960's to a history book in the last few years.

I'm not real old, just old enough to remember as a kid the story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

My, how times have changed. lol...

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story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

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With the green new deal, chopping down a tree is murder.

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In the late 1970s, Wallace announced that he became a born-again Christian and moderated his views on race, renouncing his past support for segregation...

Could/should that not be used as a positive lesson that even the hardest line segregationists can change?

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Asking if Wallace really changed his views is a legitimate question. George was an opportunistic politician. In his early political life, he was a progressive acolyte of Big Jim Folsom, considered soft on race relations. He lost his first attempted run for Governor against John Patterson, primarily because Patterson had KKK backing and was viewed as a staunch segregationist. After losing, Wallace is quoted as saying "Seymore, you know why I lost that governor's race? ... I was outn*****ed by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outn*****ed again."

In his ensuing campaigns, Wallace was the poster boy for segregation, and he rode the racism horse as long as it got him elected. Whether it was his "stand in the schoolhouse door", his inaction and tacit approval of the actions on Bloody Sunday or the many ways he promoted racism and segregation in this state, Wallace was a horrible person by any measure.

His Mea Culpa prior to the 1982 race was crucial in getting him elected in a close race, and key to that election was getting the black vote. That being said, one can't look into another man's heart to see if they are being honest, but for me, there is enough evidence in his past to question the sincerity of his "come to Jesus"