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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 11:18:51 GMT -8
You're making this more complex than it is. From everything I've seen so far, I see no compelling evidence that Gill was prejudiced - therefore I would not support renaming Gill Coliseum. I'll be interested in the discussions that take place on campus around this issue. There is a public meeting on Thursday, October 19 at 5:30 pm in the Memorial Ballroom to discuss this question specifically. Then I apologize for misreading your posts. If it turns out Coach Gill DID regularly kick the dog (or commit some similar egregious act) just for good measure, then I say get his name off that building. But then I like dogs. As an aside, my grandfather was a member of the KKK back in the 30's in Oklahoma. The one story I know about him is that one time he and some other KKK'ers went into a black church "just to keep them in their place". A couple young guys leaped out the front windows when they came in. But at the same time, Grandpa was good friends with some of the black people in town. Grandpa also once traded a horse to somebody and later saw the guy beating the horse over the head with a 2 by 4 because the horse wouldn't cooperate. Grandpa beat the sh*t out of the guy and put him in the hospital. Was he a good man or a bad man, or just a victim of the times? In my opinion he should have killed the guy who beat he horse, and Michael Vick should have been executed for what he did to those dogs. But that's just me. And maybe Grandpa was more kind and forgiving than I....
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Post by Werebeaver on Sept 28, 2017 14:33:49 GMT -8
Then I apologize for misreading your posts. If it turns out Coach Gill DID regularly kick the dog (or commit some similar egregious act) just for good measure, then I say get his name off that building. But then I like dogs. As an aside, my grandfather was a member of the KKK back in the 30's in Oklahoma. The one story I know about him is that one time he and some other KKK'ers went into a black church "just to keep them in their place". A couple young guys leaped out the front windows when they came in. But at the same time, Grandpa was good friends with some of the black people in town. Grandpa also once traded a horse to somebody and later saw the guy beating the horse over the head with a 2 by 4 because the horse wouldn't cooperate. Grandpa beat the sh*t out of the guy and put him in the hospital. Was he a good man or a bad man, or just a victim of the times? In my opinion he should have killed the guy who beat he horse, and Michael Vick should have been executed for what he did to those dogs. But that's just me. And maybe Grandpa was more kind and forgiving than I.... Does your Grandpa have any University buildings named in his honor?
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