Pushback: Cornell’s library lifts its blackballing of Abraham Lincoln
Our modern dark age: Faced with a storm of criticism from donors, alumni, and the public, the removal of a bust of Abraham Lincoln from the library at Cornell University, has been cancelled, and Lincoln will once again be given an honored place at the university.
The bust’s removal, along with a plaque celebrating Lincoln’s Gettysburg address (to the right), were removed in 2021 because some unnamed individual had filed a complaint. As I noted in June:
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Why should this “temporary” display be suddenly removed in 2021 after being on display for almost a decade? Well, in 2020 and 2021 a lot of people at Cornell were loudly complaining about America, its history, and its fundamental principles. During that period the president of Cornell’s Republican club was harassed and physically attacked, the college ran numerous classes that excluded men or whites, students assembled “safety teams” to prevent students from attending a law professor’s lecture on free speech while campaigning to get that professor fired, and the student assembly demanded that one building be renamed because the man it presently honors had recommended war with the Philippine Islands during the McKinley administration in 1899.
In 2020 students also circulated a petition supporting the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, with many bigoted demands.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put two and two together here. The 2021 complaint was almost certainly connected with these anti-American and bigoted BLM protests, which cannot tolerate any positive reference to any great American hero, such as Abraham Lincoln. The agenda of BLM, which claims all whites are racist and evil, as is all of American history, would be proven to be an utter lie if others could read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Such knowledge must be censored.
Some jack-booted thug from this totalitarian BLM movement then complained, and Cornell officials in cowardice immediately bowed in submission. Lincoln and the Gettysburg address were thus cancelled.
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Well, it appears the outcry from the public as well as many Cornell alumni and donors over this stupid cowardice actually had an impact.
Elaine Westbrooks, the Carl A. Kroch university librarian at Cornell, said in a statement Thursday the bust of America’s 16th president is slated to soon be placed where it originally debuted — the school’s Uris Library when it opened in 1891.
“Over the summer, I directed the cleaning and return to public exhibition of a bust of Abraham Lincoln, a valuable item in the Cornell Library’s vast permanent collection,” she said in a written statement provided to The College Fix. “The bust will soon return to its original room in Uris in the heart of our Ithaca campus.”
Westbrooks was tapped as librarian in March 2022, roughly seven months after the bust was removed from the Rare and Manuscript Collections section of Kroch Library. The bust had been displayed there in front of a decal plaque of the Gettysburg Address since 2013.
The most astonishing aspect of Westbrooks’ decision is that it appears that Cornell has actually hired as its new librarian a rare academic in this day and age who is not a coward and is willing to stand up bravely to the leftist goons who now dominate college campuses. Even more astonishing, she is conversant with American history and recognizes its greatness. She not only supervised the return of Lincoln to public display, the new display will be even more visible and prominent, in the main library rather than in the rare manuscript collection.
It is not yet clear if the plaque of the Gettysburg address will also be restored to public view. This is less critical, though it would be appropriate if the full address was still quoted in the displayed material surrounding the bust. The address makes it very clear where Lincoln stood on freedom, on slavery, on representative government, and on the brutal Civil War that was raging in 1863, when Lincoln gave this speech. Its public display will do much to put the lie to the racist and Marxist “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity” movement that is trying to discredit all American history and make whites second class citizens.
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Our modern dark age: Faced with a storm of criticism from donors, alumni, and the public, the removal of a bust of Abraham Lincoln from the library at Cornell University, has been cancelled, and Lincoln will once again be given an honored place at the university.
The bust’s removal, along with a plaque celebrating Lincoln’s Gettysburg address (to the right), were removed in 2021 because some unnamed individual had filed a complaint. As I noted in June:
——————–
Why should this “temporary” display be suddenly removed in 2021 after being on display for almost a decade? Well, in 2020 and 2021 a lot of people at Cornell were loudly complaining about America, its history, and its fundamental principles. During that period the president of Cornell’s Republican club was harassed and physically attacked, the college ran numerous classes that excluded men or whites, students assembled “safety teams” to prevent students from attending a law professor’s lecture on free speech while campaigning to get that professor fired, and the student assembly demanded that one building be renamed because the man it presently honors had recommended war with the Philippine Islands during the McKinley administration in 1899.
In 2020 students also circulated a petition supporting the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, with many bigoted demands.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put two and two together here. The 2021 complaint was almost certainly connected with these anti-American and bigoted BLM protests, which cannot tolerate any positive reference to any great American hero, such as Abraham Lincoln. The agenda of BLM, which claims all whites are racist and evil, as is all of American history, would be proven to be an utter lie if others could read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Such knowledge must be censored.
Some jack-booted thug from this totalitarian BLM movement then complained, and Cornell officials in cowardice immediately bowed in submission. Lincoln and the Gettysburg address were thus cancelled.
——————–
Well, it appears the outcry from the public as well as many Cornell alumni and donors over this stupid cowardice actually had an impact.
Elaine Westbrooks, the Carl A. Kroch university librarian at Cornell, said in a statement Thursday the bust of America’s 16th president is slated to soon be placed where it originally debuted — the school’s Uris Library when it opened in 1891.
“Over the summer, I directed the cleaning and return to public exhibition of a bust of Abraham Lincoln, a valuable item in the Cornell Library’s vast permanent collection,” she said in a written statement provided to The College Fix. “The bust will soon return to its original room in Uris in the heart of our Ithaca campus.”
Westbrooks was tapped as librarian in March 2022, roughly seven months after the bust was removed from the Rare and Manuscript Collections section of Kroch Library. The bust had been displayed there in front of a decal plaque of the Gettysburg Address since 2013.
The most astonishing aspect of Westbrooks’ decision is that it appears that Cornell has actually hired as its new librarian a rare academic in this day and age who is not a coward and is willing to stand up bravely to the leftist goons who now dominate college campuses. Even more astonishing, she is conversant with American history and recognizes its greatness. She not only supervised the return of Lincoln to public display, the new display will be even more visible and prominent, in the main library rather than in the rare manuscript collection.
It is not yet clear if the plaque of the Gettysburg address will also be restored to public view. This is less critical, though it would be appropriate if the full address was still quoted in the displayed material surrounding the bust. The address makes it very clear where Lincoln stood on freedom, on slavery, on representative government, and on the brutal Civil War that was raging in 1863, when Lincoln gave this speech. Its public display will do much to put the lie to the racist and Marxist “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity” movement that is trying to discredit all American history and make whites second class citizens.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Oh, c,mon man. Everyone knows the Gettysburg address, although it was ghost written by a minority, is entirely racist, trying to whitewash Amerika’s endless litany of sins
Being as they consider things like individual rights and property rights as being means of so-called white supremacy to oppress the masses, and being that slavery is a great wrong because it denies people their individual and property rights thus denying them the right to own and govern their own life, I would like to know what the BLM and CRT crowd actually have against human slavery. They deny the very reasons why slavery is a great wrong as being a tool of oppression so I think they should explain just why they think they are holier than thou and just are their reasons for being against slavery.
Any bets on how long before the new display is vandalized in the name of diversity and justice?
It is all related:
NORD STREAM SABOTAGE? WHO DID IT AND WHY?
ALL POTENTIALS EXIST (Please copy and share)
Who took out the Nord Stream Russia to Germany pipeline and why? There are several credible scenarios that might justify such a strategic sabotage and they exist on both sides.
Who did it and why? I do not know who did it, and it will probably never be known. But there it is all the same, and those who did do it will never speak about it. And that is the nature of such things.
Unbelievable? It is right in front of your own eyeballs, “Things” happen.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/04/jeffrey-sachs-yanked-off-air-after-accusing-us-of-sabotaging-nord-stream/
Is professor Jeffery Sachs, correct? I do not know.
From Strategy Over Morality:
EXPLANATION: Strategy Over Morality describes a two-tiered “conversation” between a Public and their Empowered Leadership where the Public believes there is only a single, no tiered conversation occurring, and that single conversation is assumed by the Public to relate to the Public’s morality and truth model perspective.
CONCLUSION: The public lives and operates under a subjective moral code or within a “Pedestrian Realm” perspective which they assume their leadership which exists within the “Political Realm” is constrained by. This is a subjective false perspective conclusion on the part of the public. Leadership at its existential core is not about morality, truth and honesty.
Political Realm leadership is about the fundamental exercise of power and “Its” survival and agenda to prevail.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.n7AK69hzPtMm9LZ7u4qikAHaDC?pid=ImgDet&rs=1
Tom Biggar wrote: “Any bets on how long before the new display is vandalized in the name of diversity and justice?”
My bet is that it will be vandalized in the name of inclusion.