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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous[b]]UVA was built on slavery and racial discrimination. [/b]

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/08/the-long-shadow-of-racism-at-uva-from-1817-to-the-charlottesville-riots/567182/

““Slavery, in every way imaginable, was central to the project of designing, funding, building, and maintaining the school,” the reports says. It flowed from the institution’s founder—Thomas Jefferson—on down. “Even in Jefferson’s own imagining of what the University of Virginia could be, he understood it to be an institution with slavery at its core,” the report says. “He believed that a southern institution was necessary to protect the sons of the South from abolitionist teachings in the North.””

““It all comes full circle in the fact that this institution has had underlying white-supremacist elements to it from its very beginning.””

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[b]As was Harvard and every other 200 year old college[/b]. [/quote]

Bingo.  And I went to Harvard.[/quote]

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