Rutgers University is celebrating their 250th anniversary, and there’s no better way to get a party started than talking about institutionalized racism and the history of slavery — am I right?
The College Fix reported that school officials are honoring the “enslaved and disenfranchised populations in Rutgers history” committee because “some facts that we have ignored for too long.”
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“Our campus is built on land taken from the Lenni-Lenape, and a number of our founders and early benefactors were slave holders,” Chancellor Richard Edwards wrote in an email to the campus at large. “Given our history as a colonial college, these are facts not unique to Rutgers, but it is time that we begin to recognize the rule that disadvantaged populations such as African Americans and Native tribes played in the University’s development.”
Edwards has set up faculty, staff, and student run committees that will study the “enslaved and disenfranchised populations in Rutgers history.”
“The committee will be charged with examining the role that the people of these disadvantaged groups played in the founding and development of Rutgers University, and with making recommendations to me on how the University can best acknowledge their influence on history,” Edwards continued.
Some College Republicans were upset by the decision saying that the limited recourses could be better spent.
