Rutgers University-Camden has decided to move a Walt Whitman statue after activists argued the poet 'stood for white supremacy and racism.'
A statue of the famous 19th-century poet Walt Whitman is set to be removed from the center of the Rutgers University-Camden campus in New Jersey after petitions from activists and a recommendation from a committee of scholars was recently approved.
The Whitman statue, located in Camden's Campus Center courtyard, will be moved to another campus site, according to the school's vice-chancellor for public affairs and chief of staff, Mike Sepanic. The statue pays homage to the author who lived in Camden upon his death in 1892 at age 72.
Rutgers-Camden is moving a prominent sculpture of Walt Whitman to a quieter part of campus after activists petitioned for its removal. Seen here is a different sculpture of Whitman."A committee of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members, including a number of historians and artists, examined this broad topic during the past year," said Sepanic.
Last year, a petition on change.org entitled"Remove Racist Walt Whitman from Rutgers-Camden Campus" started circulating. The appeal argues the statue"glorifies a man who we should not hold such a place of honor on our campus. Our school encourages inclusion, diversity, and equity while Whitman stood for none of those things. He instead stood for white supremacy and racism against Black and Indigenous Americans."
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