Saturday, June 04, 2016

UNM seal with conquistador and frontiersman under review because 2% of students say it's racist

UNM seal with conquistador and frontiersman under review because 2% of students say it's racist - The College Fix:
Sword and musket called ‘weapons of conquest’
ALBUQUERQUE — There’s nearly 30,000 students at the University of New Mexico, and about 665 of them want its longtime seal to be abolished, saying it’s racist because it has a conquistador and frontiersman on it.

Those complaints — along with demonstrators telling the university president he has “blood on his hands” — have prompted campus officials to agree to review the seal and possibly change it..."

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