On the quad sits a statue of Thomas Jefferson, a man who owned slaves.
Your students asked you to remove it; you all decided not to for the sake of “contextualizing” history. Yet you’re acknowledging Juneteenth. Is it Oochie Wally or One Mic? https://twitter.com/mizzou/status/1273976968090968064">https://twitter.com/mizzou/st...
Your students asked you to remove it; you all decided not to for the sake of “contextualizing” history. Yet you’re acknowledging Juneteenth. Is it Oochie Wally or One Mic? https://twitter.com/mizzou/status/1273976968090968064">https://twitter.com/mizzou/st...
This thread would’ve been a great place to contextualize why Mizzou made that decision. But. I guess, girls.
How you acknowledge the importance of Juneteenth and yet refuse to remove a statue that signifies slave ownership for a large amount of your students, which you probably walked past in order to tweet this today, is above and beyond me. If you gone step, step. No half stepping.
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