University of Wisconsin Removes ‘Racist’ Rock Over 1925 Newspaper Headline – OutKick

A 42-ton boulder believed to be two billion years outdated was eliminated Friday from the University of Wisconsin principal campus after the college’s Black Student Union management decided the rock was a racist image attributable to a 1925 newspaper headline.

Chamberlin Rock, named after a former college president, was lifted from its resting spot and moved to school land southeast of Madison the place it’s going to dwell out its life. The 1925 headline within the Wisconsin State Journal, ‘Dig up N—erhead,’ is believed to be the one time the rock was talked about by that identify, historians say.

But the Black Student Union stated that was one too many mentions and the rock will at all times have a racist historical past. They stated it was time for the boulder to go and $50,000 was raised by means of non-public donations to just do that.

“This moment is about the students, past and present, that relentlessly advocated for the removal of this racist monument,” Juliana Bennett, a senior and a campus consultant on the Madison City Council, instructed the Associated Press. “Now is a moment for all of us BIPOC students to breathe a sigh of relief, to be proud of our endurance, and to begin healing.”

In November, college students instructed a campus planning committee that the rock was a “daily reminder of the injustices, past and present, that students of color face on campus.”

The rock is claimed to have been carried by glaciers from close to Canada and dropped on land that will ultimately develop into the University of Wisconsin campus. Ice receded 12,000 years in the past and BOOM, there’s an enormous rock.

“I see this as offering the next generation of students something to build off of,” stated UW–Madison senior Nalah McWhorter, who led the battle to take away the rock. “We got this project going, and now the next round of students can continue to work on the other demands and come up with other ideas. We hope this movement and this momentum carries on.”

And identical to that, onto the subsequent demand.