re: Virginia Donors Demand $3.6 Billion From University for Removing Ancestor’s Name

Until the alumni start cutting them off and not sending their kids there this dumb shite won’t stop.

You mean the students who’s name every rat has to memorize and recite? Who’s paintings are all over their chapel/buildings? Yeah they’re not giving that up.

I have many friends who are VMI grads, despite a statue here or there, the overwhelming political leanings of that community hasn’t changed.

All of Lexington (including W&L) is very conservative.

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You just can’t imagine this happening to you. This school is likely a huge part of their lives. This family has donated to and attended the school for hundreds of years. Many of those donations, if not most, were induced by the fact that the family name was on the sides of buildings. Most of the donations occurred after abolishment (implicitly stated in the article). They kept taking the money for centuries. Dismissing this story because this guy comes from a wealthy family is lame. It actually illustrates a very interesting paradox that one would have to assume will become more common: if the name is rooted in racism and must be thrown out, what about the cash?how can you have it both ways? Maybe the cash doesn’t go back to the family but how does the school get to keep it?

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All fair enough. For me a primary distinction is the gifts in question largely appear to be made over 100 years ago. So I think the school can keep the money with no hypocrisy.

At a certain point if society is to function, the past has to be just that. It’s the reason statue of limitations exists. The world has to move on. If this family made donations recently and the school wants to give it back perhaps they should. But believing you have some claim to property transferred more than a century ago by people you’ve never met simply because of lineage is a provincial way of thinking.

It’s entitled, decisive and in many ways the flip side of people who want reparations for things done to ancestors over a century ago. Everyone has ancestors that have been aggrieved.

And this guy can rightfully feel pissed off the school is pulling a family name. But thinking that money should accrete to you or anyone else 140 years later is a road to no where.

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Does the organization refuse the gift?

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Seems completely reasonable to me.

Wow
I posted this story a week or more ago
Then it was 50 some Million
Now it’s 3.6B?
What happened?

As a current resident of Richmond, VA...I hope they get every penny.

What about the leaders of the schools? Which way do they lean politically? Honestly don't know but I'd assume it could be found out. The community being conservative is useless information if the leaders of the schools are liberal. The communities around the schools aren't populating the student bodies of the schools. Definitely not in enough numbers to significantly matter.

I know UofR very well and the community around it(I grew up in it) and nothing you've posted is untrue but times are changing. Traditionally conservative neighborhoods are roundabout being forced to "liberalize" themselves through the guise of section 8, which is being forced in communities who don't want it. The swamp plays 4d chess. Conservatives are still playing around with jacks.

I also know U of R (almost went there for grad school) and the area really well.

I don’t know a lot about Hallock or Perdue but I haven’t seen anything that suggests either is some radical liberal or that this initiative came from either, although I’m sure it crossed both of their desks.

The neighborhood comment was simply to point out it wasn’t about being neighborly. There was no pressure from them to do this, was my point. Place is/was covered in Youngkin signs.

Lol ain’t no section 8 housing off River Road.