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Baylor University to release commissioned report on ties to slavery by end of the month
Administration to create action plan on recommendations from Historical Commission
and last updated 2021-03-03 15:25:41-05
WACO, TX â Baylor University will release a report commissioned by the Board of Reagents on its historical ties to slavery and how it reflects campus.
The information includes an evaluation of all aspects of campus, including statues and monuments, and their context to slavery and racial injustice.
Before the release of the report, the university is having a conversation. One that hits close to home and will discuss slavery in Texas and among Texas Baptist, which will cover the Commission s historical findings and a framework for its recommendations.
Baylor U. Students Demand School Remove Statue of Namesake Judge Baylor
20 Feb 2021
Students at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, are demanding the school remove a statue of Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor the namesake and co-founder of the university from campus.
Student protesters took a photo in front of the Judge Baylor statue, holding Black Lives Matter signs and dressed in all black clothing on Baylor’s 176 birthday, as well as the first day of Black History Month, according to a report by the
“The point of the picture is not to remove Judge Baylor as a whole. It’s to remove Judge Baylor from campus,” student Sam Onilenla told the newspaper. “I don’t want to see it on campus just because I know I’m not supposed to be here, according to him. Having him off campus is going to be the start of racial healing.”
Universities are a lot like gardens. Properly planted and carefully cultivated, they can produce inspiring growth that enriches society for years. But for gardens to flourish, pruning must allow for new growth. A common mistake for green gardeners, however, is to inadvertently mistake a thorny bush for an unwanted intruder. In this vein, some students of Baylor University have sought the removal of their garden’s centerpiece on the basis of how “uncomfortable” it makes them feel.
The last time I zeroed in on Baylor University in Waco, Texas in July 2020, the institution’s administration and faculty had started the ball rolling, placing Baylor well on the road to transformation from a once revered Christian university to a “politically-correct” but obscenely expensive version of their state school counterparts.
The Texas Tribune
Shifa Rahman, left, and Blaise, who declined to share a last name, hold signs at the base of the William Marsh Rice statue on the campus of Rice University in Houston. Rahman has spent an hour on campus nearly every day since August calling for the removal of the statue.
Students of color said they feel most of their calls to eliminate racist symbols from campuses have been ignored or intentionally mired in lengthy, bureaucratic processes intended to delay answers to difficult questions.
This summer, students called on the University of Texas at Austin to stop playing the “The Eyes of Texas,” the alma mater song that has historical minstrel show ties. Aggies petitioned Texas A&M University to take down the statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a former governor and Confederate general. Students at Rice University demanded removal of the monument of the school founder, William “Willy” Rice, a slave owner.