Seth
May 27th, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Panel: Mostly fine with renaming the building, think it’s a small gesture and the story is much larger, involving most of those in power at the University of Michigan and other institutions around the country before, during, and after Yost’s life.
Seth: Racism is quiet. It’s not about smoking guns and bad actors it’s a culture that puts the feelings of racists over equality and a system of keep things “pleasant.”
The “Moral Map” standard versus the reality that of Michigan’s 103 building names, all but one the William Trotter Multicultural Center are named for white people. Trotter’s lesson: You have to agitate.