Ryland and Freeman were both racist people, who now done money to the University of Richmond. Because of the BLM movement and our society moving towards more inclusivity, these names no longer represent “important” and “influential” people, because they aren’t people that others want to look up to. While I do believe it’s important to be aware of our history so that it isn’t ever repeated, I don’t think this a valid reason to keep these names on our buildings. There are many views that I can see how one would believe that, but not this one.\u00a0There are so many other ways of remembering history rather than plastering slave owners names on buildings. For me, I’m picturing the trolley image from class and wondering, what are the costs and benefits to keeping and changing the names on buildings? If we keep these names, we are hurting more people than we probably even know, but if we take the names down, the university could potentially lose donors. While I can understand the university doesn’t want this, but do they even care how their student body feels about the matter? And if we take these two options and picture the trolley image, what is the ethically right decision?<\/p>\n
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