As a white person on-campus, it is very difficult for me to weigh in on this as walking past the names of Ryland and Freeman on buildings around campus I will never understand what African American’s feel. I think as Kendall and Tess touched on, it is important to address the history of this campus and acknowledge where the money that has allowed this school to grow has come from. We cannot move forward if we ignore what has happened in the past so I think like what was done with freeman hall (attaching another name to the front of it that being one of Freeman’s slaves) should also be done to Ryland Hall. I think forcing people to learn about the darker history of this campus sparks a necessary conversation among everyone about how this country and our community can continue to progress past its racially-divided and discriminatory roots and support communities of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a white person on-campus, it is very difficult for me to weigh in on this as walking past the names of Ryland and Freeman on buildings around campus I will never understand what African American’s feel. I think as Kendall and Tess touched on, it is important to address the history of this campus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}