University System of Georgia to keep names on buildings with ties to slavery and white supremacy

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The University System of Georgia’s governing board on Monday rejected the recommendation of an advisory group to rename 75 buildings and colleges on campuses across the state that honor individuals who supported slavery, racial segregation and other forms of oppression.

Among the buildings at issue are more than two dozen at the flagship University of Georgia. Aderhold Hall, according to the advisory group’s report, is named for a 20th-century president of the university, Omer Clyde “O.C.” Aderhold, who was a “committed segregationist.”

Also on the Athens campus, according to the report, are Lipscomb Hall, named for Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, a university chancellor in the 19th century who was an enslaver and author of an anti-immigrant tract, and Candler Hall, named for Allen Daniel Candler, a Confederate Army veteran who later became governor of Georgia and advocated for segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans.

Those and other buildings were recommended to be renamed in a report from the Naming Advisory Group, which was formed in June 2020 shortly after the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, during an arrest in Minneapolis. The group was chaired by Marion Ross Fedrick, president of Albany State University. The historically Black university is one of 26 schools in the Georgia system.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/university-system-of-georgia-to-keep-names-on-buildings-with-ties-to-slavery-and-white-supremacy/ar-AAR0PaW

[Red Mountain]

1. No, they won't

Watch. Maybe not today or tomorrow. Things like this will push change.

[Hortensis]

2. Right. It's going to happen, but this might not have been

quite the best time for either party.

Every decision has to be made with an eye to the critically important elections coming up. Democrats need all the wobblies the Republicans can drive away. And right now reelecting one black senator from GA is worth more than all the names on all the buildings in the country.

Republicans have their own issues in a state where a third of the population is black. Given a board filled with Republicans, this as a notably positive waffling and recognition of those they desperately need to avoid rousing to active wrath:

“We acknowledge, understand and respect there are many viewpoints on this matter,” the statement said. “Going forward, the Board is committed to naming actions that reflect the strength and energy of Georgia’s diversity.”