"Alleging that the name of our fourth president “contributes to a hostile school culture,” a high school senior wants the moniker “James Madison” excised from James Madison Memorial High School.
The school is located in — wait for it — Madison, Wisconsin.
President Madison, according to a report in The Capital Times, had inherited over 100 slaves and it’s “estimated that at least five generations of enslaved African-Americans lived at [his] Montpelier plantation.”
On it Berry writes, “The significance of [Madison’s] name in association with my school has a negative effect on memorials [sic] black students.
The lack of representation I feel in this school makes me feel more than unsafe.”...
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