Another thread I was reading recently mentioned that Tulane's namesake, a slaveowner, was causing a something of a stink to change their university's name in order to be more tolerant, welcoming and politically correct to today's modern diverse student body.

I did a quick search and found that, lo and behold, William Marsh Rice was also a slaveowner:

Quote:Rice made his fortune by investing in land, real estate, lumber, railroads, cotton, and other prospects in Texas and Louisiana. In 1860, his total property, which included fifteen slaves, was worth $750,000....he was a slaveowner with fifteen slaves in 1860 and served on the slave patrol for a year. His ashes are buried under John Angel's statue of him on the Rice University campus in Houston.

William Marsh Rice--namesake of Rice University....for the time being

Looks like the Rice activists have really been dropping the ball on this, which is actually kind of difficult to believe, really. Do they need to get agitated to change the schools' namesake and remove the statue of their founder from its exalted position in the center of the main academic quad ASAP? This is 2016 for goodness sakes, not 1860.

Wonder why so many affiliated with the school continue to promote Rice's racist views by tolerating the statute of the bigot in the main quad, as well as continuing to promote him by keeping his tarnished name as the standard of the University? Would it not be more in line with today's prevailing standards to show our high-minded sensitivity to all people and just remove the statue and rename the University to something less like a giant Rebel flag which is what we now have? Should we all be deeply embarrassed and ashamed and need to assuage our collective guilt by no longer mentioning or helping promote his name until it is fully erased from the campus which his money built--after all, it is blood money? Does the university leadership need to find his slaves' descendants, redistributing the endowment monies to them (because it is really their money, after all and should rightly be taken away from those who worked to build the University up into what it is today--their work might not have been possible at all if not for the unpaid sweat and slave-enabled labor which the founder himself enjoyed whist building his empire) and give them the ownership of their university which was stolen from them?

Maybe one of these descendants can coach football, so perhaps there can finally be a palatable excuse to make that change after 10 years? It's all about doing what is politically correct, and sensitive, after all... Should we not also use a substantial portion of funds to add that third bathroom everywhere there are only two now on campus as well? Maybe the rest of the stadium renovations will just have to wait until we solve this much greater issue?

Maybe we could rename the school the "Politically Correct University of Houston" or PCU of H, for short.

I realize how ridiculous this might sound to 2 or 3 of you, but the rest of course know that we are living in a modern society and these things need to be addressed post haste as they just cannot be tolerated by those who wish to tolerate everything except those things which the elites themselves can't tolerate...all in the name of proving that they are the most tolerant, of course.

I would think several of our liberal posters here would pull your tongue away from your cheek and agree with you. Austin? You're up.