Yale University needs to change it's name.

To begin there is no honor in the name Yale. Secondly, this article is in a newspaper from the country of India. 

With the rise of the White Supremacist movement and the oppression of African Americans in dissolving the protections of "The Voter Rights Act of 1964;" there is no doubt in the hearts and minds of allies, the celebration of the Civil War and it's leaders and slave dealers is blatantly wrong and painful.

Yale University Mission Statement (click here)

Yale is committed to improving the world today and for future generations through outstanding research and scholarship, education, preservation, and practice. Yale educates aspiring leaders worldwide who serve all sectors of society. We carry out this mission through the free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Yale needs to look toward those graduated from and involved in making it's mission successful while upholding it's integrity. This is a sincere opportunity to purge the dishonor of a former wealthy merchant in the way of the slave trade. There is no morality in that name.

A new name should reflect a long lived mission that has provided incredible graduates to the USA and global community. 

There is no place in the USA for any celebration of slavery. NONE. The people the White Supremacists celebrate were treasonists. If Lincoln wasn't so interested in healing the country, they would have been hung as an enemy to the United States of America. They have no honor and no place in celebration in any method of statue, name or otherwise. Their names will be included in the history of the USA as those that not only resisted abolition of slavery but, to the point they waged a war against the sovereignty of their very country.

There is no honor in that. The LAW of the time is no different than today. They were all treasonists and should have been hung to death. And to think the White Supremacists want statues in graveyards is as much an insult. The USA needs to purge it's honor of the most dishonorable men in it's history. 

February 27, 2017
By S. Muthiah

Believe it or not, (click here) there are a few who want to change the name of Yale University! It was initially named Yale College after Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras (1687-1692), who had, in 1715 and 1721, gifted about £800 worth of textiles and books to what was the Collegiate School of Connecticut. Their reason: The donor had not only kept slaves in Madras but had also encouraged slave exports.

These liberals of the anti-Trump brigade cite precedent. Yale in February re-named its Calhoun College, Hopper College because John Calhoun, a Vice President of America, had been “a white supremacist and a national leader who passionately supported slavery”, according to Yale’s President who amplified, “He was fundamentally in conflict with Yale’s mission and values.” So was Yale, say the liberals pointing to Yale’s Madras record of dubiously enriching himself and supporting slavery....

Harvard continues to struggle with it's purging.

February 28, 2017
By Colleen Walsh

Last spring, Harvard President Drew Faust (click here) joined with Civil Rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis to affix a plaque on Harvard’s Wadsworth House in honor of Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba, who lived and worked there as enslaved persons during the presidencies of Benjamin Wadsworth and Edward Holyoke in the 1700s. “Today we take an important step in the effort to explore the complexities of our past and to restore this painful dimension of Harvard’s history to the understanding of our heritage,” said Faust during the unveiling. “The past never dies or disappears. It continues to shape us in ways we should not try to erase or ignore.”

This Friday, the University will take another step in exploring its long-ago ties to slavery with a major daylong symposium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study that will examine the relationship between slavery and universities....