Looney tuned!
Stay tuned! Originally Posted by winn dixie
Missing a chance to address the role of racism in UT's history
https://www.tribtalk.org/2017/06/22/...n-uts-history/
There is no acknowledgement of what confederate officer, cattleman, banker and longtime UT benefactor George Littlefield intended when he commissioned this statue and five others on campus: to celebrate white supremacy and embed it into the very landscape of UT-Austin.
True, there is no written statement by Littlefield saying this. But consider the six men this former UT regent chose to commemorate with statues: Davis, president of the Confederacy; Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston, confederate generals; John H. Reagan, architect of black disenfranchisement after Reconstruction, from poll taxes to literacy tests; James Stephen Hogg, the Texas governor who signed the first Jim Crow bills into law in 1891; and Woodrow Wilson, the first post-Civil War southern president, who removed blacks from positions of power in the federal government, segregated the federal bureaucracy and refused to involve the federal government in defending black civil rights in the face of white terrorist violence.
The avatar.
Shame shame.