Alabama university presidents defend naming buildings after Shelby

@mom2collegekids Not really. My recommendation, while in jest, would not necessitate renaming every single building or monument that was named after any person who perhaps once owned slaves and profited from their labor. Let’s just deal with the University of Alabama. It gets some points for attempting to overcome some difficult history, but it does make sense to me to at least remove the old placards and paintings inside those two buildings which celebrate these two men for the exact things that led to my recommendation. They are an anachronism that serve no purpose any longer and may cause pain for no reason. Either that, or make those placards even bigger and make sure that every person who walks into those buildings every day knows exactly who Mr Morgan and Mr Nott were. And I would hardly equate either man with George Washington. Washington owned slaves, but he did not lead the KKK and, as far as I know, did not believe nor promote the pseudo-science idea that African Americans were genetically intellectually inferior.