He discussed the matter with Galen Fisher, a faculty member at the Pacific School of Religion and a political science research associate at the university … [Fisher] agreed to take on the task of organizing what he and Barrows envisioned as ‘an independent committee of influential individuals’ to advocate for the protection of the civil rights and liberties of Californians of Japanese descent.” (26), “Minejiro Hayashida, chairman of the community council at [the internment camp at] Heart Mountain, was one of many internees who wrote letters of appreciation to the committee in the days following the 1944 decision to end the internment. ”, “On July 17, 1934, the California National Guard blocked both ends of Jackson Street from Drumm to Front with machine gun mounted trucks to assist vigilante raids, protected by SFPD, on the headquarters of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union and the ILA soup kitchen at 84 Embarcadero.”. It is, I suppose, a primarily political document, and as such swerves from academic standards of accuracy. Szeri was unable to comment on the requests to rename LeConte and Barrows halls and said he had not yet gotten a chance to familiarize himself with the issue. The core beliefs Barrows held stand in stark juxtaposition of the ethnic studies and gender and women’s studies departments, which are both currently housed within the building. Named for David Prescott Barrows, political science professor and president of the university from 1919-23. Copyright © 2020 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. Is she a terrorist. Similar objections pertain to other statements in this Proposal. In a campuswide email, UC Berkeley professor and Building Name Review Committee Chair Paul Fine said an initial comment period on the proposal will be open for two to five weeks depending on the volume of responses. The university should install a row of displays in the entry hall featuring the history and publications of the Northern California Committee on Fair Play for Citizens and Aliens of Japanese Ancestry (the documents are available in the Bancroft), acknowledging its place in the history of antiracism at UC Berkeley and the key role of its founder, David Barrows. Afroilan and Williams want to replicate that result here in Berkeley. The recently submitted “Proposal to Un-Name Barrows Hall,” which is now open for public comment, is in my view a deeply flawed document, whose claims are not supported by careful research. Despite this, in 1925, she became California’s first Black teacher and ended her career in education as principal of McClymonds High School in the Oakland Unified School District. This was the result of a journalist noting that John Boalt was overtly racist toward Black people and people with Chinese heritage. Perhaps the renaming committee will take his findings into consideration. It is not too soon, however, to present a history of the Philippines, even though imperfectly written, to the Philippine people themselves; and if this book serves to direct young men and young women to a study of the history of their own island country, it will have fulfilled its purpose.” (9), “The young men and young women of the Philippines must seek the advantages of education, not for themselves, but for the benefit of their people and their land; not to gain for themselves a selfish position of social and economic advantage over the poor and less educated Filipinos, but in order that, having gained these advantages for themselves, they may in turn give them to their less fortunate countrymen.” (12), “The Fair Play Committee was established in the fall of 1941, three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But a replica has been copied onto posters that have been posted around the building, and an image of the two spearheaders standing next to a Photoshopped copy of the art has been shared on social media platforms. That’s a completely absurd notion, but it can be agreed that monumental statues, portraits and buildings serve as manners of remembrance and honor that should never be associated with oppressive and malicious individuals. Mobile site. Under the section “Barrows Demonstrated Extreme Anti-Blackness,” the claim is: “Barrows argued that Black people are politically incapable, cannot successfully enact self-determination, are vicious, are lacking in free will, and cannot recognize their own rights.” To show Barrows’s “thorough dehumanization of Blacks,” the Proposal cite two quotes from his book of travels in Africa, Berbers and Blacks: Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu, and the Western Sudan. Barrows Hall was built in 1964 at a cost of approximately $3.77 million. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @KateFinman_DC. It seems to me that while the university is a wonderful place to research and teach about racism and anti-racism, it should not be in the vanguard to pursue and implement anti-racist practices. The name was inspired by George Berkeley’s “Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America,” an encomium to the British empire’s expansion in America. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Use desktop site by default. They serve as a united front in the project to eliminate racism, inequality and ignorance to finally expose the hidden symbols of white superiority in the name of Barrows Hall. For example, Barrows wrote, “The tropical coast comprised in British Nigeria probably had as wicked a history as any part of the African shore, before the British took responsibility for it, and gave it a just and humane government.” (Barrows, 1927, p. 215 ), Barrows claimed that people in the Phillipine Islands and throughout the region are instinctively submissive. The UC Berkeley Building Name Review Committee received the proposal for renaming Barrows Hall on Friday. , with their project, are questioning the unquestioned. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage. Afroilan and Williams were inspired to take a stand because of their experience in a prejudiced society as low-income students of the underrepresented minority community. You are claiming Clymer’s book is in opposition to the proposal, when it calls Barrows an imperialist, and describes the second group as “disinterested” servants, at their personal expense. Copyright © 2020 UC Regents; all rights reserved. You intentionally paraphrased Clymer when they are talking about Barrows typifying the dedicated servant. Even benign colonialists were still white colonizers even if they were enlightened ones. To give high marks to the U.S. school system, as most Americans and Filipinos do in retrospect, is a fair judgment—as far as it goes. Rhodes once said of white people: “I contend that we are the first race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.” Rhodes strongly believed in the apartheid system in South Africa and the treatment of the native people as children. He talked about people of color as inferior people who could only succeed with the help of white people (aka white saviors). Wilkinson was a devoted campus community member, working at UC Berkeley for 40 years, leading a strike for pay equality for service workers and acting as a mother to the Cal Band. The school's Board of Visitors unanimously voted to change the names of the dorms Thursday. The Black Student Union has demanded that the building be renamed for Assata Shakur, a controversial figure who was a member of the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army, and was convicted of murdering a police officer in New Jersey, and later escaped from prison and is now in exile in Cuba. The notion of renaming Barrows Hall is neither novel nor surprising — it’s an issue that has been discussed greatly in communities of underrepresented minorities. Should we tell them that even though he was racist, he also did nice things and had great accolades(the shield we use for white people to hide behind racist comments and attitudes).

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