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A rose by any other name

What’s your opinion concerning renaming Tillman Hall?

Does it matter that much? Pitchfork Ben Tillman is dead. My life won’t be affected either way. But if the name is changed because he was a racist, then we must consider all the other men for 6-25 Page 4A.inddwhom things are named who were undoubtedly racists.

Thomas Green Clemson was a slave owner. Change the name of the town. John C. Calhoun was a racist. Remove his name from any building or town named in his honor.

George Washington was a slave owner. Should we burn down Mt. Vernon? He did do some other things that had value. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner and fathered a number of children with his slave, Sally Hemings, who