re: Tulane University removes &#39;Victory Bell&#39; after learning of its slavery ties

Posted by auggie

Opelika, Alabama

Member since Aug 2013

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 4:18 am to Parmen

They weren't using it anyway?

Posted by johnnyrocket

Ghetto once known as Baton Rouge

Member since Apr 2013

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 6:44 am to Parmen

They need to now shut down the school as the rich people who donated those buildings and everything else lived in racist times.

They need to make it right by having classrooms held outside in tents put up by people making minimum wage.

This post was edited on 3/2/20 at 6:45 am

Posted by YouAre8Up

in a house

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 6:50 am to Parmen

All of you fricking snowflakes are fricking this country up.

Posted by TulaneFan

Slidell, LA

Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:06 am to Parmen

the bigger issue is someone literally had the time to put in the hours of research to figure that out.

I want to be that guy who’s job is to dig into the past of random inanimate objects and find out if they were used for slavery

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Posted by canyon

MM23

Member since Dec 2003

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:14 am to TulaneFan

You could. I imagine there are grants and freebies out there to do research on erryything pre and post CW to determine if that particular item contributed to or was used during the enslaved human era.

Posted by Twenty 49

Shreveport

Member since Jun 2014

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:18 am to Parmen

The funny part is that people who did not know the bell existed will get worked up that it is being removed because of ties to slavery. If Tulane had said they were removing it because they didn't like the tone it made, those same people would not care. But they sure like their slavery bell.

Posted by Hickok

Htown

Member since Jan 2013

2987 posts

Posted on 3/2/20 at 7:24 am to red sox fan 13

quote:
Lol Tulane is all Yankees now anyway.

Tulane was a Yankee, and a confederate supporter at that, so they should probably just remove the whole campus.

Posted by Tempratt

Member since Oct 2013

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:01 am to Parmen

So where does it end? Everything from the slavery period could be "tied" to that era in some way.

Posted by floyd of pink

Metry

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:04 am to Parmen

I fricking hate Tulane. I’m glad this happened. I have a reason to hate them even more.

Posted by tigersbh

Baton Rouge

Member since Oct 2005

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:06 am to Twenty 49

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The funny part is that people who did not know the bell existed will get worked up that it is being removed because of ties to slavery. If Tulane had said they were removing it because they didn't like the tone it made, those same people would not care. But they sure like their slavery bell.

Straw man argument rejected.

Posted by Mr. Hangover

New Orleans

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:10 am to Parmen

Maybe they removed the Victory Bell because Tulane never wins anything

Posted by cbdman

New Orleans

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:26 am to Mr. Hangover

"Tulane" + "Victory" = oxymoron

Posted by ctiger69

Member since May 2005

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Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:29 am to Parmen

This will make a difference.

This post was edited on 6/8/20 at 9:28 am

Posted by mdomingue

Lafayette, LA

Member since Nov 2010

48652 posts

Posted on 3/2/20 at 8:49 am to eddieray

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Is it just a bell? Or is it a replica of a “slavery” bell? I read about how the bell was once used but, why this one?

There is a more informative article that is refernced by Fox News from NOLA.com

https://www.nola.com/news/education/article_981b7eb8-59b6-11ea-bd6f-5bba1bac0a35.html

The article gives the following information. While a person could try to read this as a general statement, as in these types of bells, but the two statements taken together pretty much imply the bell was specifically used to call in slaves on a plantation.

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Fitts and Hertz said they were informed last week the bell was originally used to direct the movements of enslaved people on a plantation, according to the paper.

quote:
The Victory Bell, which was cast in 1825, was donated by Richard W. Leche, a former Louisiana governor and a Tulane law school graduate, according to a recent student guidebook

I have no issues with this, particularly since Tulane is basically a college geared toward liberal trust fund babies. 43% of their student population is from the Northeast or Pacific West, 8% from Louisiana.

Posted by Skeet Mc

Member since Dec 2006

2972 posts

Posted on 3/2/20 at 9:11 am to Parmen

Does Tulane's campus contain any live oaks (hangin' oaks)? If so, some Baw needs to bring his Stihl to The City and rectify these egregious abominations of cultural prejudice.