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Coleman's presentation traced the history of secret societies at A&M, including the Ku Klux Klan. Coleman said the romanticism associated with redeeming the South allowed secret societies to thrive.
The KKK existed at a time when A&M was a military school, Coleman said, and there is no way of knowing how many secret societies there were or how long they existed. The only documented evidence is a picture of students, dressed in KKK robes and masks, from the 1906 yearbook.
Coleman said members of the KKK at A&M held leadership positions in the Ross Volunteers, The Gazoot (an A&M student publication), Literary Societies and The Longhorn (A&M's then-yearbook).
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Coleman said there are still two secret societies: the True Texans and the Stikas, which are active at A&M.
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Coleman said there are many undeserving individuals enshrined on campus, such as former Texas Gov. Richard Coke.
"Coke heralded the onset of Southern redemption of reconstruction efforts, and he publicly advocated lynching of blacks," Coleman said. "Don't rename the Coke building, but remember what he stood for. I'm not trying to revise history - just help people understand it."
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After the Civil War, when the Republican-dominated 12th Legislature debated the bill that would allow Texas to take advantage of the Morrill Act, there was an additional reason for objections on the part of white Conservatives and Democrats. The 1871 bill to establish the A. and M. College of Texas obligated the State of Texas to establish, if state officials chose to segregate white from black students, another federally supported land-grant school for blacks, which subsequently became Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College. On no other condition could Texas have received the grant.
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We don't just go and put random statues of people on our campus in order to appease the PC machine and your progressive bunch. If MLK Jr actually went to school at TAMU, we'd have a statue of him.
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Coleman also spoke about Matt Gaines, a former slave who became a Republican state senator, and said that Gaines has no statue or memorial on campus. Gaines served in the 12th legislature, which established free public education in Texas and enabled the establishment of A&M.
Another figure in A&M's history was a man known as Uncle Dan, Coleman said. Uncle Dan was a black laborer at A&M who worked on the campus for 50 years after A&M was opened. The treatment of Uncle Dan, as exemplified by a poem in an A&M yearbook, showed the expectation of black inferiority, something not specific to A&M.
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yet a handful of idiots like your boy felt it wasn't quite over, still trying to rally the troops
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Yes, we have had some racists at Texas A&M. We promptly immortalized them by naming a prominent building after them.
Oh, my bad. That was YOU GUYS.
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the argument here is not that A&M doesn't have racists, it's the fact sips continually call us racist rednecks, all while having a building named after a KKK founder. that is some thick irony.
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Not only did this klanhorn refuse to acknowledge his school's blatant racism, but he attempted to smear a former Texas Governor who opposed racist organizations/klanhorns.
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Choke at sports, now a racist school, this is awesome!! hahaha!
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55 years? So they named the dorm for a KKK founder in 19-phooking-55? I could understand if it were 1890, but 1955?
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1951 - Richard Coke Building completed at a cost of $460,000.
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and four statues honoring Confederate heroes on campus.
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Freed slaves got 40 acres and a mule.
The Klanhorn campus is 40 acres.
After you necks stole the black man's land, you must have transplanted the mule's brain into Rick Barnes' head.
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Of course they would not put a statue of a black person on campus. That is what Prairie View is for, to get rid of the undesireables. Keep the coloreds down at Prairie View and keep the white closeted milkmen in College Station. Separate but equal does not mean they are racist.
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I love watching aggies try and take the high road with a Garmin programmed by David Duke.
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I love watching aggies try and take the high road with a Garmin programmed by David Duke.