After Donor’s Name Removed From Building By Woke University, Descendent Demands $3.6 Billion

[TigerGrowls]

Now this is funny and I dont care who you are!

After Donor's Name Removed From Building By Woke University, Descendent Demands $3.6 Billion | The Gateway Pundit | by ProTrumpNews Staff

The University of Richmond announced back in September that they would be removing the name of T.C.

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By ProTrumpNews Staff
Published February 14, 2023 at 11:35am

The University of Richmond announced back in September that they would be removing the name of T.C. Williams from their law school.
In an email, to the university community, they said that recently located government records showed that T.C. Williams owned slaves.
From the email:

We are writing to communicate an action taken by the Board of Trustees at its meeting today and arising from the Board’s adoption of Naming Principles in March 2022. The Board voted unanimously to change the official name of the law school from the T.C. Williams School of Law to the University of Richmond School of Law. The law school has been referred to as the University of Richmond School of Law for more than 20 years. This decision to formally adopt that name was made in accordance with Principle 6 of the Naming Principles, which states:
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No building, program, professorship, or other entity at the University should be named for a person who directly engaged in the trafficking and/or enslavement of others or openly advocated for the enslavement of people.
As many of you are aware, the Board adopted the Naming Principles as formulated by the Naming Principles Commission last academic year. That commission, with student, staff, faculty, alumni, and trustee representation, as well as external expertise, recommended the principles to the Board after an extensive and inclusive process in which more than 7,500 members of the University community provided their perspectives. The purpose of the principles is to provide a clear and consistent framework to guide decisions about naming and removal or modification of names for named entities at Richmond.
To provide some context, Thomas C. Williams, Sr. (1831–1889), known as T.C. Williams, operated tobacco businesses in Richmond and elsewhere in Virginia, including Patterson & Williams and Thomas C. Williams & Co. He attended Richmond College (1846–49), was a Richmond College trustee from 1881 until his death in 1889, and was a benefactor of the institution. In 1890, Williams’s family made a memorial gift of $25,000, creating an endowment that established a strong foundation for the law program’s development. Several of his children — one of whom succeeded Williams on the Board of Trustees until 1929 — also provided generous support to the University and the law school. In 1920, when Richmond College was re-chartered as the University of Richmond, the law school began consistently to use the name T.C. Williams School of Law…

A descendant of Williams is now fighting back against the University.
He is demanding his family be given $3.6 billion from the university.
The Daily Mail reported:

A Virginia lawyer demanded the University of Richmond pay his family $3.6billion after the southern school removed the name of his ancestor from its law school because he was a slave owner.
Robert C. Smith, whose great-great grandfather TC Williams Sr. was an early and prominent benefactor of the recently renamed Richmond School of Law, wrote a letter to university president Kevin Hallock demanding the school pay back William’s 1890 donation – adjusted for inflation, plus interest.
Smith accused the school of giving in to ‘woke activists’ when it removed Williams’ name from the law school following a 2021 campus furor over campus buildings bearing the names of slave owning and openly racists benefactors.
The university said records from the 19th century showed Williams owned up to 40 slaves on his tobacco farms, but Smith claimed his family was never shown that evidence.

In a letter to the school, he said, “since you and your activists” want to discredit the name of Williams and claim the money is tainted all the money should be returned.
The Epoch Times reported:

Jesse Williams, father of T.C. Williams, donated building materials to the First Baptist Church, he said. The family patriarch also donated masonry and other materials for the neighboring First African Baptist Church, Smith wrote in his January letter.
…
It’s only right, Smith said, for the university to turn over its $3.3 billion endowment to Williams descendants. The remaining $300 million owed should be secured with a note using the campus buildings as collateral, he wrote.
“All your woke faculty” should pledge their assets to secure the loan, he added.
“Since you and your activists went out of your way to discredit the Williams name, and since presumably the Williams family’s money is tainted, demonstrate your ‘virtue’ and give it all back,” he wrote.

Will they be forced to give it all back?
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[Jjh7]

the naming principles commission...only libs. solving problems that dont exist for people who never asked and patting themselves on the back for their heroism

 

[scotchtiger]

Makes sense in theory. If the donation was given and part of the deal was naming rights, then if the naming rights are removed the donation should be returned.

Of course the entire thing is ridiculous though.

 

[Clemson Goat]

Where does this type of Bullshit stop . Many colleges, and universities have been named after people who own slaves. Do we rename the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial ? What about towns/city's across the US that are named after people who own slaves.

 

[PalmettoTiger1]

Washington DC was built with some slave labor

I propose we give it back to BLM under the condition they have to keep all the politicians and never let them get out

 

[BlueRidgedf]

Washington DC was built with some slave labor

I propose we give it back to BLM under the condition they have to keep all the politicians and never let them get out

That's seems fair. I like it.

 

[virginiavitrfy]

Now this is funny and I dont care who you are!

After Donor's Name Removed From Building By Woke University, Descendent Demands $3.6 Billion | The Gateway Pundit | by ProTrumpNews Staff

The University of Richmond announced back in September that they would be removing the name of T.C.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

By ProTrumpNews Staff
Published February 14, 2023 at 11:35am

The University of Richmond announced back in September that they would be removing the name of T.C. Williams from their law school.
In an email, to the university community, they said that recently located government records showed that T.C. Williams owned slaves.
From the email:

A descendant of Williams is now fighting back against the University.
He is demanding his family be given $3.6 billion from the university.
The Daily Mail reported:

In a letter to the school, he said, “since you and your activists” want to discredit the name of Williams and claim the money is tainted all the money should be returned.
The Epoch Times reported:

Will they be forced to give it all back?
For the antidote to media bias, check out ProTrumpNews.com…

Any more news from there? Because besides this case I did research with the help of https://papersowl.com/examples/is-college-worth-it/ and I understood that it doesn't make sense to go to college, because college isn't worth it, especially after such cases; how did it end, because theoretically it's right what they say, but I'm extremely interested in what it will end up with and I can't find anywhere information on intrenet about this case.

 

[Dungeon09]

Lol cry more

 

[okclem]

The Epoch Times is the only source for real news.

 

[hopefultiger13]

Where does this type of Bullshit stop . Many colleges, and universities have been named after people who own slaves. Do we rename the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial ? What about towns/city's across the US that are named after people who own slaves.

I tend to agree with this position. Men and Women in general are not perfect. Most of them do good things and bad things. Take our own Ben Tillman... He was a murderer and a pretty all around bad dude. But everything he did wasn't bad. He was crucial in the formation of Clemson which in turn has done and continues to do great things and provided quality education for a lot of folks. It's absolutely fair to point out Tillman's horrible crimes. It's also fair to point out his achievement in Clemson University. Both of those things are true.

Good examples in the Washington Memorial. Lincoln did not own slaves (but sub in the Jefferson Memorial and we are all good). Both men did indeed own slaves and that's a bad thing. But it was also socially acceptable and entirely legal in their time. Asking people to conform to today's standards that are long dead doesn't seem fair to me.

I'm fine with removing confederate statuary/memorials from US/State property. That was a rebellion against the very property it's standing on and doesn't belong there. Destroying that stuff is wrong also... It belongs museum. Destroying things like Stone Mountain is just plain wrong. That's art (and history). And art can be offensive and the best history lessons are from where people REALLY screwed up... that's ok.

 

[Clemson Goat]

Per this article Lincoln did not own slaves But his wife did. After his father in-law died the slaves were sold . Makes one think he did benefit from family owning slaves.

New Book reveals that Abraham Lincoln owned ― and sold ― slaves

Abraham Lincoln owned slaves and sold them, says Kevin Orlin Johnson, author of The Lincolns in the White House: Slanders, Scandals, and Lincoln's Slave Trading Revealed.

reelchicago.wpengine.com

 

[DW4_2016]

The Epoch Times is the only source for real news.

News so good they deliver it to you unsolicited.

 

[okclem]

News so good they deliver it to you unsolicited.

Yep, even when you tell them to stop

 

[SDTiger9]

I’m assuming this is the same TC Williams HS in Remember the Titans. Irony that it was the forced integration school…… and now this.

 

[okclem]

I tend to agree with this position. Men and Women in general are not perfect. Most of them do good things and bad things. Take our own Ben Tillman... He was a murderer and a pretty all around bad dude. But everything he did wasn't bad. He was crucial in the formation of Clemson which in turn has done and continues to do great things and provided quality education for a lot of folks. It's absolutely fair to point out Tillman's horrible crimes. It's also fair to point out his achievement in Clemson University. Both of those things are true.

Good examples in the Washington Memorial. Lincoln did not own slaves (but sub in the Jefferson Memorial and we are all good). Both men did indeed own slaves and that's a bad thing. But it was also socially acceptable and entirely legal in their time. Asking people to conform to today's standards that are long dead doesn't seem fair to me.

I'm fine with removing confederate statuary/memorials from US/State property. That was a rebellion against the very property it's standing on and doesn't belong there. Destroying that stuff is wrong also... It belongs museum. Destroying things like Stone Mountain is just plain wrong. That's art (and history). And art can be offensive and the best history lessons are from where people REALLY screwed up... that's ok.

Not to mention most of the confederate statues and memorials were erected in the NINETEEN 50s

Tear down every confederate statue in existence. We made a mistake not hanging Lee, Jackson, and every other confederate leader/politician that betrayed his country.

 

[loveoysters]

Where does this type of Bullshit stop . Many colleges, and universities have been named after people who own slaves. Do we rename the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial ? What about towns/city's across the US that are named after people who own slaves.

Not to mention most of the confederate statues and memorials were erected in the NINETEEN 50s

Tear down every confederate statue in existence. We made a mistake not hanging Lee, Jackson, and every other confederate leader/politician that betrayed his country.

You want to have hung Robert E Lee? Wow, that is amazing

 

[okclem]

You want to have hung Robert E Lee? Wow, that is amazing

Yes. Full stop.

Edit - and I was a KA at Clemson, so spare me the Robert E. Lee propaganda. I've been schooled in it more than most.