The University of Wisconsin removed the ‘racist’ Chamberlin rock because the administrators are cowards and the people who see it as racist are bonkers.

The University of Wisconsin removed a large boulder from its Madison campus at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism.

Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist, and former university president. Students of color on campus say the rock represents a history of discrimination. It was referred to as a derogatory name in a Wisconsin State Journal story in the 1920s, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus. The boulder was removed Friday morning.

How is the rock racist exactly?
In recent years, someone found a nearly century-old Wisconsin State Journal article that referred to the large boulder found on the UW-Madison campus as a “n—–head rock.” That is what led to the removal of the glacial erratic from Observatory Hill on Aug. 6, 2021.

That’s a bit of a stretch, don’t you think? These people are nuts.

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https://www.independentsentinel.com/watch-university-of-madison-wokesters-remove-a-racist-rock/ 

I am definitely butt hurt about the tree left standing in front of the Kissimmee. FL courthouse. It's known as "the hanging tree" where they used to lynch black folks for the public to view.

rfenst wrote:

First, the socialist protards came for da flags and you did not speak out!
Then they came da statues and historical monuments and you did not speak out!
Then they came to rewrite history itself and you did not speak out!
Now they come for da rocks and you do not speak out!
Next, they'll come for you Ben and there will be no one there to speak for you.

RayR wrote:

Our protests back then were mostly about the legalization of pot, threeks (forks with three tines at the campus cafeterias), and the discrimination of women not being allowed to go topless in public like the men.

BuckyB93 wrote:

Our protests back then were mostly about the legalization of pot, threeks (forks with three tines at the campus cafeterias), and the discrimination of women not being allowed to go topless in public like the men.

BuckyB93 wrote:

Holy sh*t you're dramatic.

I feel like I should be handing you a Kleenex. One of those super soft ones.

bgz wrote:

That last one still chafes my ass.

Krazeehorse wrote:

The concept of the protest was sound, in theory, and I fully supported it while watching it transpire from one of the bars on State Street. However, the turn out... based on eyewitness accounts... let's just say that a 50% of the women that want to parade topless... should remain covered.

BuckyB93 wrote:

You're just too picky.

bgz wrote: