On the quad sits a statue of Thomas Jefferson, a man who owned slaves.

Your students asked you to remove it; you all decided not to for the sake of “contextualizing” history. Yet you’re acknowledging Juneteenth. Is it Oochie Wally or One Mic? https://twitter.com/mizzou/status/1273976968090968064

This thread would’ve been a great place to contextualize why Mizzou made that decision. But. I guess, girls.

How you acknowledge the importance of Juneteenth and yet refuse to remove a statue that signifies slave ownership for a large amount of your students, which you probably walked past in order to tweet this today, is above and beyond me. If you gone step, step. No half stepping.