BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}: Kwani Lewis (also a BC alum) just tweeted "Your move @BostonCollege". I really hope BC doesn't get pulled into this asinine BS
https://twitter.com/bostonherald/status/898270893683740672
Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:Changing the name of a public street is very different than changing the name of a building whose name bears the donors name. I don't think BC can remove Yawkey's name without returning the donation.
DomingoOrtiz {l Wrote}:Eaglekeeper {l Wrote}:Changing the name of a public street is very different than changing the name of a building whose name bears the donors name. I don't think BC can remove Yawkey's name without returning the donation.
I'm not a lawyer but. (1) only if the naming of the building was a condition of the gift; (b) a foundation cannot demand a benefit in exchange for a donation.
BCHerbert {l Wrote}:You're
twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Yawkey was pretty much known to be overtly racist.
DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Yawkey was pretty much known to be overtly racist.
He was an old white guy from Boston, are we surprised.
HJS {l Wrote}:In a social media world where thoughts are as deep as 140 characters, it is not at all surprising that knee-jerk reaction dominates. Thoughtful analysis has been sacrificed at the alter of goldfish-like attention spans. It is impossible to defend white supremacists. But, it is possible to defend their right to speak without facing violence. It is impossible to defend slavery, but it is possible to memorialize the lives lost in the Civil War. And, it is possible to memorialize a family's altruistic ventures even if the patriarch held at one point views that would be considered racist in today's standard.**
Context (something completely lost on millennials) is what is needed to understand the differences between Malcolm Jenkins-Chris Long and Jackie Robinson-Pee Wee Reese.
At the end of the day, this us revisiting the civil unrest of the 60s again. I won't be surprised to see a series of assassinations to follow. There is a line in the Matrix... "as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery." An off-shoot of this idea is... as a society, Americans define their reality through suffering and misery of their enemy. Throughout our history, we have built up foes (be it real or imagined) for which we can compare ourselves. In a post-Soviet reality, America has struggled coming up with another global rival. We attempted to make it Al Qaeda and ISIS, but that was too amorphous and ultimately too small to be taken seriously. More recently, the Dems have tried to make it Russia again and Trump has tried to make it Islam. Both are ill-fitting. China is likely to be the one who will rise as our global nemesis. However, until then, our pugnacious nature has turned itself inward. Instead of irrationally arming Osama Bin Laden so the Soviets can't take Afghanistan, we irrationally destroy communities by pitting one group of citizens against another because the second doesn't show the same level of outrage over every event happening on their smartphone screen.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization."
** I don't know anything about Tom Yawkey. I understand he has never spoken on black players in MLB (although other owners at the time were vocal both for and against). I also understand that there are folks that believe Ted Williams was the real influencer as to the Sawks slow integration (as upper management was continuously the first team to identify and workout players like Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays). Further, as much as John Henry would like to not acknowledge, Boston was not a welcoming city for segregation (a stigma that holds to this day (see, Adam Jones)). It is entirely possible that Yawkey waited for a time when Bostonians would accept a black player. This would certainly not be a heroic stance, but given the treatment of Jackie Robinson during his tryout or Bill Russell's experiences with Boston fans (Bill Russell only predated Pumpsie Green by a year) I'm not sure it is one that should necessarily brand his legacy as intolerant.
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