Another Thought ...

My high school was named for Andrew Jackson and our school song, which I still mostly remember, was filled with admiration for this wonderful model of virtue and patriotism. Now I am told he was pretty awful! Princeton was my school for a master's degree and a doctorate, all before I really knew how bad Woodrow Wilson was for this country and the world.

It's like wanting to take down statues of Confederate heroes. I had a colleague from Tennessee who said his family was on the losing side of every struggle: They were Tories during the American Revolution and Confederates during the Civil War. But he seemed to take it all in stride nevertheless.

So perhaps overly sensitive whites and their Afro-American friends might learn to get along with statues of Robert E. Lee without apoplexy, as Princetonians can forget about renaming the Woodrow Wilson School in honor of Donald J. Trump!