Pete Hegseth weighs in on the petition to remove a statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton's sixth president, from his alma mater's campus for owning slaves.
Princeton University must show"an ounce of courage" against pressure from"little radical activist undergraduates" demanding the school remove a statue honoring the college's former president, Fox News’ Pete Hegseth said.
Hegseth was the publisher of the university’s conservative newspaper, The Princeton Tory, when the statue was erected in 2001 and wrote a column praising Witherspoon’s legacy. He proposed the school offer an undergraduate class,"The History of Princeton and influential Princetonians." "The irony is Witherspoon was anti-slavery," Hegseth said."He may have had two slaves — almost every rich White person did back then … but he worked to free the slaves and hoped and believed that the founding generation would be one of the last to own them."
Despite believing slavery was wrong, Witherspoon thought immediate abolition would do more harm than good and advocated for a gradual end to the practice, according to Presbyterian pastor Kevin DeYoung, who wrote his 2019 doctoral dissertation on Witherspoon. "Not perfect, nobody is," Hegseth said of Witherspoon."But instead of tearing him down or getting rid of him, we should be teaching about him."
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