University of Richmond woke BS and a resulting issue. (Give the money back)

Since I am an amateur historian, I find this particularly interesting. Although I understand taking the name of people off building when it’s later revealed that they were completely POS, they did this simply because he owned 3 domestic slaves. (Like every wealthy Virginia planter at the time)

Hence, his ancestors have said, “OK if you want to do that that’s fine but then return to us the current value of all of our family donations to the school which is about $3.5 billion dollars in today’s money.” They wanted to point out that if their family name is so tainted it needs to be removed for their buildings surely that would make the money they’ve given tainted as well and the only the way to fix that is to return it. What makes this particular interesting is it this family is one of the principal founding families and financiers of this university.

To be frank, I agree with him 100% and if anybody wants to take any members of my families names off of any buildings etc, I am absolutely OK with that as long as they provide the decedents the current value of their previous gift and all the family money that have been given to those particular colleges and we’ll call it a day. (And I will super retire in excess luxury m.)

We were definitely slave owners and fought in the Civil War for the Confederacy, if that helps.

Ah, Richmond Spiders “What a tangled web we weave when we go work and try to deceive”

Of course, the University has yet to respond and probably will not.

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