Name the school that, until last year, had 2 buildings named after avowed racists

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A History Of Violence
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Yes, it's tu.

1. The William Simkins Lynchatorium

2. The R.L. Moore Institute of Advanced Cross-Burning
txjortsagent
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A History Of Violence
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They only renamed Simkins after media reports. The other one is still there.
Super Aggie 64
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You forgot Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium.
txjortsagent
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They should go ahead and put a satellite school in Vidor and Jasper.
RVHorn
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I hope you get well soon. Best wishes.
Maroon Dawn
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Let's not forget the tu statues:

Egged multiple times: renowned trouble maker and stirrer of pots MLK

Never egged: freedom loving humanitarians Jeff Davis & Robert E. Lee
txjortsagent
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thanks, rv
AggieTFA06
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thanks rvhorn and shame on your school full of cowards and liars. the a&m-tu series belongs to the state of texas, not a school whose administrators are proven cowards and liars

To 1,000,000 touchdowns ...and beyond
A History Of Violence
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The al-Q'Lanni © arena is still named after a school icon who fought integration, at least according to the ex tsip klaven, er, association.
Ag2012
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Lynchatorium
A History Of Violence
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I just got a Facebook message from former Klanhorn Buck Burnette. Apparently, he saw this thread...

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"F*** you, you n*****-loving, race-mingling, self-loathing, impure piece of crap. Stop picking on our boys. So help me Yahweh Elohim, if you keep posting all of this factual stuff about racism at the 40 Acres -- which we stole from a black guy, by the way, along with his mule -- I will gather up my boys and we will put up a creepy statue of you.


And then he sent me this image...


txjortsagent
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ahov slays with these threads
tbirdspur2010
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AHOV
huisache
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Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia?

Almost any school in the SEC except AnM?
txjortsagent
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wee snatch comes around for the slaying.

popcorn.
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Robert E. Lee Moore's status in the history and education of mathematics in the United states is very important. At one time, his method of teaching was thought to be the very best. In 1929 he was colloquium speaker at the AMS. In 1937 & 1938, he was President of the American Mathematical Society. Moore was an editor of the Colloquium Publications from 1929 to 1936, being editor-in-chief from 1930 to 1933. Moore taught at the University Texas-Austin until he was 86 years old, and he wished to carry on teaching but the University authorities forced him to retire. In the picture below he is aged 87 and still in his office in Austin, Texas.

The Mathematics-Physics Hall at UT-Austin was named after him and when he died, there was a laudatory article in the Math Monthly, a publication of the Mathematical Association of America. However, many preferred to hide his low side so as not to tarnish his memory. To ignore his stature as a proponent of scientific racism. For African Americans passing through Mathematics at Texas, there was only a tarnished memory and I hope to tell what is partially known of that story.

R. L. Moore (1882-1974)
racist mathematician unveiled



There were many racist mathematicians in the history of mathematics in the United States. What many Black mathematics students experienced in contact with the racists, is similar, if not in degree, to those below.

1. Walker E. Hunt, Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin: "I also wanted to take Robert E.Lee Moore's famous, Foundations of Point-Set Topology. However, that was not to be. The reason, I was black! His words were, 'you are welcome to take my course but you start with a C and can only go down from there.'"

2. Raymond L. Johnson, Ph.D. from Rice University, ex-University of Texas-Austin undergraduate: "The image of R. L. Moore in my eyes, however, is that of a mathematician who went to a topology lecture given by a student of R. H. Bing. Bing was (a famous Topologist, and a) student of Moore. The speaker was what mathematicians refer to as Moore's mathematical grandson. When Moore discovered that the student was black, he walked out of the lecture. (Parenthetically, let me say one more good thing about Bing. He was a topologist of world-renowned stature and Texas desperately wanted to attract him back from Wisconsin. Word was that Bing had said he would never return to Texas while Moore was there. Moore died and a year or so later Bing returned to Texas. I have a very different image of R. H. Bing.

3. Vivienne Mayes-Malone, Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin: She could not enroll in professor R.L. Moore class, as he explicitly stated that he did not teach Blacks. Overlooking all this, another of her professors, complaining against the civil rights demonstrations, said to her: "If all those out there were like you, hard-working and studious, we wouldn't have any problems." Her reply: "If it hadn't been for those hell-raisers out there, you wouldn't even know me."

4. Scott Williams, Topologist: I know and have had excellent relations with many ex-students of Moore such as Ben Fitzpatrick, and one ex-Moore student, Mary Ellen Rudin, has been extremely helpful to my career. However, the annual Point-Set Topology conference was always held in the spring and most often in the south. In 1976 on my first visit to the conference held at one university, I was greeted by two ex-Moore students who said, "You are lucky he is dead [Moore died in 1974]. Otherwise, you would not be here."

5. Folks fail to realize the power R. L. Moore held at Texas. As Leonard Gillman reports, There was a rule at the university that after retiring at age 70, a professor could continue to teach half time year to year upon the recommendation of the departmental "Budget Council" that he was still "fit to teach". In '52 Moore was 70 but he taught until 1969, he been reappointed 17 times. Moore's graduate students had private offices while most faculty were doubled up.

Finally, to Moore and other racist mathematicians. We remember, and persevere despite of, your contribution.

AggieSportsGuy
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Was he asking the first guy to suck his d**k?
Caleb Russel`s pass rush
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I actually agree that MLK was a socialist chode and am a huge fan of Robert E Lee, and I'm an AG
Mr. Fancy Pants
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Poor "HokieAg". You're not fooling anyone, tsip dip****. I'm sure staff will be along shortly to ban you again. How many usernames is that for you, psycho?
LonghornDub
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I would have thought AHOV would have moved on to the racist history of your new $EC conference rivals. I'm sure there is some.

Arkansas, Ole Miss, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida - I'll bet a little digging will divulge a little racist history.

I thought y'all wanted UT in your rear view window. It sure is hard to believe when one scans the board these days.

Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit

Sumus Tejas, Adios Aggies
switzerland
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Where on the A&M campus is the statue of MLK?
huisache
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I vaguely recall some racist stuff at Bama. Something about the governor standing in the door and defying the federal marshalls about letting the 'coloreds' in.

And at Ole Miss, I recall the president had to call out the national guard to make them take one 'nigra.'

And LSU didn't get to play Army in the Sugar Bowl because Army had an integrated team and didn't want to play in a stadium where no 'black folks' were allowed---some friends from Louisiana told me they didn't want "rat zhit" in the Sugar Bowl.

But Texas in racist and AnM is the epitome of racial tolerance and always has been since the first day of creation. In fact, I bet the next party line will be that AnM left the conference because it did not want to Sully its name by associating with those commie bigots in Austin. Yes, that's the ticket!!
turk333
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Excellent work huisache.

You speak the truth.

Austin has always been known for its intolerance.
huisache
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Not taking up for Austin, which when I lived there was still a sleepy southern town run by bigots. The mayor was a car dealer who, as head of the school board, fought desegregation to the end.

And the frats were a tad racist at times.

And of course the legislature was a pack of bigots, bigtime.

The faculty at the university there and a lot of the students were pretty liberal on matters racial and the football fans warmed up to the blacks after Earl Campbell showed up.

But the place was never near as bad as the rest of the American south. Not even close.

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A History Of Violence
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This is worth noting...

tu still has a racist law professor on the current faculty.
Randall Watson
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Graglia is no racist.
CGSC Lobotomy
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Where on the A&M campus is the statue of MLK?


I'm pretty sure we had a black Student Body President (Fred McClure '76) and a black football head coach (Kevin Sumlin) long before you did. I'll take that over a statue of someone who has been dead over 40 years
Randall Watson
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And lots of black friends
Happy Kuykendahl
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Stfu you vagina
A History Of Violence
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Graglia is no racist.

Gee Twatson. When you say it so convincingly, backed by such indisputable evidence , it almost makes the truth seem more factual, but that's only because you're an Aggie-obsessed, partner-fisting, lying tsip piece of dogcrap.

Oh yeah..

tsip frat boys took a break from cornholing each other to throw food and spit on an African-American woman after she bought tickets to one of their cross-burning rallies parties. Then they had her thrown out of their party.

Daily Texan



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CGSC Lobotomy
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And lots of black friends


I actually had the privelege of being in the audience when Fred McClure spoke at Muster in Colorado Springs in 2004. No surprise at all that he was SBP. He had the entire room in the palm of his hand before he said his first word into the mike.
recruitnik21
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If you think Lino Graglia is a racist, you don't know much about him. Do some research other than citing Jesse Jackson and you might change your mind.
A History Of Violence
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The author of the article is Sam Howe Verhovek, not Jesse Jackson. That's the author whose work was cited. Click the link next time and you won't look as stupid as you do now.

Meanwhile...

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The first performance of the Klanhorn alma mater – stolen from a song about railroads – was in blackface.
Former tsips Association


Yes, you uneducated, Plan II, pole-blowing al-Q'Lanni © pinheads. 'Minstrel show' means blackface.

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Yu Darvish
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poor AHOV


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Watch you mad 'cause you push dimes and he sell weight?
You all don't know my expenses, I gotta buy a bigger place
Hehehe, and more baggies, why you all aggie?


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