Wheaton accused of another woke decision
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com)
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The “wokeness” epidemic has again hit the historic campus of Wheaton College, where a small but vocal group complained about a plaque, now removed, that honored slain missionaries and Wheaton alumni Jim Elliot and Ed McCully.
The historic plaque honored the men who were killed in 1956 in Ecuador, where the Auca tribe greeted the white missionaries by brutally spearing them to death. The plaque, erected by their classmates in 1964, describes the tribe as “savages” and thus offended Wheaton for the insensitive word.
Wheaton College, a private evangelical college, is home to approximately 2,800 students on a Wheaton, Illinois campus that dates back to 1860.
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