{"id":1471337,"date":"2022-05-11T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471337"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:44:41","slug":"washington-post-opinion-piece-says-george-washington-universitys-name-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-opinion-piece-says-george-washington-universitys-name-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Opinion Piece Says George Washington University\u2019s Name Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwashington-post-opinion-piece-says-george-washington-universitys-name-is-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471337&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GW.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apparently The Washington Post doesn\u2019t have enough writers on staff because it turned to a university student to write an opinion piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge Washington University needs a new name,\u201d reads the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/05\/09\/george-washington-university-needs-new-name\/?msclkid=3f9963bed0e511ec877258d6f7b17f93\">headline<\/a> of the piece, written by Caleb Francois, a senior at the university in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRacism has always been a problem at GW. At the university\u2019s founding in 1821, enrollment was restricted to White men. In 1954, then-university president Marvin employed numerous efforts to preserve segregation, arguing for a \u2018homogenous\u2019 group of White students,\u201d Francois wrote, adding that \u201csystemic racism and inequality [are] still present on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1987, Black students organized to demand more visibility in a predominantly Black city where Black students were outnumbered by huge majorities. Today, with Black enrollment at about 10 percent, Black students on campus continue to struggle for community. Despite alleged efforts by administration to enhance diversity, the admissions office continues to fail to ensure a student body with adequate minority representation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francois notes that the university has never had a black president and says \u201cEuropean studies and White perspectives are favored over Black perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese problems are rooted in systemic racism, institutional inequality and white supremacy. There are at least four ways the university could achieve progress: Decolonized university curriculum, increased Black enrollment, the renaming of the university and the selection of an African American President,\u201d Francois wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The writer finally gets around to George Washington, the first president of the United States. \u201cJust blocks from the main campus is the Mount Vernon Campus, named for George Washington\u2019s former slave plantation. Every day, hundreds of Black students walk on a campus named after an enslaver of men and study at a site named after dark parts of history. Such sites, among other locations and buildings, are touted as glorified mementos here at GW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francois then takes aim at Winston Churchill, prime minister of Britain during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe controversial Winston Churchill Library must go. The university\u2019s contentious colonial moniker must go. Even the university\u2019s name, mascot and motto \u2014 \u2018Hail Thee George Washington\u2019 \u2014 must be replaced. The hypocrisy of GW in not addressing these issues is an example of how Black voices and Black grievances go ignored and highlights the importance of strong Black leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Francois never targets the paper in which his opinion piece appeared \u2014 The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The founding father has been attacked before. In 2020, rioters burned an American flag on top of a statue of George Washington in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome wrapped the statue\u2019s head in an American flag and lit the flag on fire,\u201d KOIN News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/protests\/portland-protests-black-lives-matter-blm-george-floyd-police-reform-racial-justice-demonstration-rally-march-day-21\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cTheir numbers grew over the next hour until there were enough people to pull the statue to the ground. They quickly scattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently The Washington Post doesn\u2019t have enough writers on staff because it turned to a university student to write an opinion piece.\u201cGeorge Washington University needs a new name,\u201d reads the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1482547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}