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Should We Honor Racists?

Last month, hundreds of students at Princeton University demanded that the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Wilson College, one of its residential colleges, be renamed. Whether or not one agrees, the protesters have played an invaluable role in educating students and faculty.

PRINCETON – In the midst of my Practical Ethics class last month, several students stood up and walked out. They were joining hundreds of others in a protest led by the Black Justice League (BJL), one of many student groups that have emerged across the United States in response to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, and subsequent police killings of unarmed African Americans.

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