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Renaming Buildings and Removing Mascots Doesn’t Cure Racism

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Should ‘Lord Jeff’ be removed as Amherst’s unofficial mascot because of his racism? Does the vogue for eradicating and renaming mascots and buildings really educate us?

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Lord Jeffery Amherst was horrible to Native Americans. The British general encouraged the attempts to spread Smallpox to the tribes his troops faced in the summer of 1763 during the French and Indian War, and he referred to Native Americans as “this execrable race.”

No institution makes Amherst’s reprehensible treatment of...

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