Letter to the editor: Canceling history | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas
David Upchurch, Lawrence To the editor: The history-canceling prigs who would rename the Pinckney neighborhood in our city simply do not go far enough. So: Amos Lawrence, our town’s namesake, made his fortune on the backs of single, vulnerable women in his New England mills. Next, William Burroughs Creek, named for a wife-abusing, heroin-addicted novelist, obviously needs canceling. Then, Langston Hughes flirted with tyrannical Soviet Communism to the extent of traveling to the Soviet Union for Soviet propaganda purposes, among other things. Change that school’s name. Most egregious, howe...
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