Dear Mr. Chavez,
My name is Nia Toomer and I am president of the Black Student Alliance at
Vanderbilt University and I overwhemingly support the name change.  I am
appalled to believe that you and your supporters argue that the confederacy
was not about slavery.  Any history course professor, covering the period of
the civil war would admit that slavery was the main cause, and the south
refused to anti-up on the issue.

The confederacy does not stand for southern pride because if you have not
noticed African Americans make up a good amount of the population in
Southern
States (ask any one of us, and see what we have to say about the
confederacy)
and why? Because our ancestors were forced to work the land, America is our
land as much as it is yours. The confederacy stood for slavery, segregation,
and discrimination to all people, not just African Americans.

If really upset me to read about your unnecessary attack on one of the best
professors not only at Vanderbilt, but in the nation.  When Professor
Jonathan
Farley said that Confederates were traitors, they were! Is this not true? If
the nation were to divide today, the dividing half would be subject to
disciplinary action.

Clearly you and your supporters are racist, and ignorant. It is obviously to
me that if you and many of your supporters were alive during the civil war,
you would have been a member of the mob that lynched my ancestors, who were
your ancestors too(hate to ruin your day, but all humans originated in
Africa,
ask any evolution specialist)!

To sum up, I and the Black Student Alliance at Vanderbilt support the name
change, which supports diversity by taking steps away from terms that
support
racism, and imprisonment of African Americans.  I and the BSA support
Vanderbilt's Distinguished Professor Jonathan Farley.  You could learn a lot
from this man!  My last questions are: What is your problem? Why are you and
so many other of your prejugdice supporters so angry?.  Did Jesus not tell
us
to love all creatures and doesn't the bible teach us to love thy neighbor?
The
right side won the battle in 1869, so get over it!!!!

Sincerely,
Nia Toomer

Nia Toomer
Black Student Alliance President '02-'03
Alumni Class Officer
Vanderbilt University

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 Hey, aids infested nigger bitch!!! When you send someone an e-mail calling
them ignorant, be sure you do not show your ignorance as well, smelly
jigaboo!!! The war between your ears ended in 1865, not 1869, as you told
that spic Chavez. You have about as much sense as that "communist nigger"
Farley. (Damn, I am still laughing about that!!!) As far as your feelings
about the right side winning, I have a piece of advice for you, ignorant
nigger whore. Go and see the movie "Gangs of New York". It is one of my
favorite movies. Niggers are lynched and burned. People call Abraham Lincoln
(who was a White Supremacist) a nigger-lover intent on destroying the White
race. Racism is rampant. There is a lot of Confederate sympathy. Oh, did I
mention that the movie, extremely factual and historically accurate, takes
place in NEW YORK CITY??? Go and see it, if you dare to experience some
TRUTH, instead of the lies you spew out of your smelly, cavity infested
mouth!!! Lick my toilet bowl's insides clean!!! Black power, under your
arms!!! Nigger.

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