The society “exists to provide black students an avenue to make their unique contribution to Wheaton College,” their website reads.Īdditionally, Buswell is alleged to have written a letter to a trustee that even though he wasn’t opposed to interracial education, he believed “that for a small Christian school where the social contacts are so close, it would be better to avoid coeducation of the races.” Continuing, he wrote that, “I am trying to avoid issue while quietly advising colored applicants to go elsewhere.” Well, according to documents uncovered by the William Osborne Society, no black students were admitted to Wheaton during his 14-year tenure. So why are they targeting Buswell, who served as the institution’s third president?
The college was founded in 1860 by evangelical abolitionists, led by a man named Jonathan Blanchard. “The task force’s work involves investigating programs, policies, and practices at Wheaton using the College’s archives as well as the work of scholars,” the student newspaper wrote. According to Professor of Library Science Katherine Graber, this was done so task force members could “speak freely.” The task force is comprised of a number of people among trustees, faculty, staff, alumni and students, the Record reported, while adding that student reporters have been banned from attending its ten meetings to this point. Some people didn’t like the term “savage” to define the “savages” who killed the five missionaries so it was changed to “the most feared indigenous peoples in South America at the time.” For example, last year college leaders edited a plaque honoring five missionaries who were killed by an Ecuadorian tribe in 1956. A goal of the study is to determine-in view of the supremacy of Jesus Christ-what aspects of this history need to be celebrated more intentionally, lamented more deeply, or repented more specifically.”ĭelving into the woke is nothing new for Wheaton, which already has gone back to look at some items considered “troubling” by the grievance mob. “The committee was formed in October and is continuing its work. “Like many institutions during the past few years, Wheaton College has had periodic conversations internally as we’ve considered pieces of our history regarding race,” Moore said via an email.
But we digress.Īccording to Wheaton spokesman Joe Moore, he told The College Fix that the review continues even to this day. Because if race isn’t immediately visible, you need to dig back and hunt for it.Īs an email from the current college president, Philip Ryken said, the goal of the task force is to “understand the impact of past events on present realities, particularly the experience of ethnic minorities,” none of whom we might note are current students at Wheaton. In October 2021, the school formed a task force with the goal being to “conduct a historical review of race,” as reported by the Wheaton Record at the time. In the group’s petition, they complain that James Oliver Buswell, president of the college from 1926 to 1940 had allegedly left a “racist legacy” at the school. This takes us to Wheaton College, a Christian institute of higher learning located in Illinois, where they are in the midst of conducting a review of its “history regarding race” which includes a petition from the recently coined “BIPOC” community consisting of “students and alumni” who are seeking to rename the college’s library, The College Fix reports.įor the uninformed or perhaps “ignorant,” BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous and People of Color and is a term that seemed to appear on the progressive scene perhaps a year or two back. Oh to be certain this is nothing new, but it seems to be accelerating over the past year or two. Yet in 2022 America, that is where we find ourselves. WHEATON, IL- Imagine if you will having nothing going on in your life more important than finding stuff to complain about.
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