NDP students and alumni of #XUniversity join the call to sever our former namesake’s connection to our educational community, including removing his name & statue immediately.
Read the call to action from Indigenous members of the X University community:
https://t.co/Aosf58dMKB
Egerton Ryerson was an architect of the residential school system that has caused intergenerational trauma.
X University should be renamed and remove his statue from campus.
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To the racist standards and goals of "normalization" in educational/institutional architecture and design that persist to this day,
X University must be actively anti-colonial as we interrogate the past and present, and try to build new foundations for future students. ||
NDP students and alumni of #XUniversity join the call to sever our former namesake’s connection to our educational community, including removing his name & statue immediately.
Read the call to action from Indigenous members of the X University community:
https://t.co/Aosf58dMKB
From the pain of Residential School survivors and the families of those who never returned home,
To the wave of social workers and other staff who moved from those schools into others as they closed (who were never held accountable for their parts of the violence), /
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