The University Of Louisville In The Time Of The Trumpish Inquisition

...Continued from previous post:
       During our weekend in Louisville, Kentucky, where Tom and I went to attend the celebration of life service for my college friend Jan,

...we spent some time visiting the University of Louisville, where years ago I worked as an archivist while Tom worked on his graduate degree (see previous post, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/seeing-the-old-louisville-places-then-saying-a-goodbye).   
      Now, had I entered  the campus a year ago I would not have been in the least taken aback to see this banner on a building:

     But that was before colleges and universities across the country were being subjected to the Trumpish Inquisition,

...being carried out for him by his Grand Inquisitor of educational persecution, Linda McMahon.

      McMahon has been using her position as Secretary of Education to bring  heat on any institutions of higher learning suspected of having policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, which Donald Trump and his syndicate interpret as racial discrimination against white people. 
       To this purpose Linda  McMahon has drawn up a list of 50 colleges and universities to be put under investigation for suspicion of practicing diversity, equity and inclusion.
        Which is why it was for me so eye-popping to see the University of Louisville refusing to lay low, so to speak.
​          The University still has its Cultural and Equity Center,

...with the tough-looking UofL cardinal logo stuck right there on the building's sign like a guard sending a don't-mess-with-me message.

       And there was the banner on the Pan-African Studies Department making sure that anyone who passed by would know that this University has a Pan-African Studies Department and isn’t afraid to show it.

         Gottshalk Hall, a beautiful old building which houses classrooms and offices for the history department,

...owns up to the ugliness of its history.

     All around the campus one sees artistic expressions of diversity,

...equity,

...and inclusion.

      And all around the campus there are banners that could have implicit messages, if one were looking for them.
            Messages of resistance,

...and defiance.

    And one banner that evoked the anonymous quote "Be the change,"

...which is a degree or two of separation from Barack Obama's quote, "We are the change that we seek."
      Finally, there there were a couple of trash cans around that, while they didn't necessarily seek to raise our consciousness to diversity, equity, or inclusion, did seek to raise our consciousness to  all the garbage we make.

      I salute and admire the University of Louisville, a public university that still openly represents its values for any campus visitor to see. 
         My prayer for  U of L, and for all our American colleges and universities, is that they may stay from beneath the shadow of Trump's Inquisition, and may they never catch Linda McMahon's the evil eye.

Reference:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dei-universities-investigated-f89dc9ec2a98897577ed0a6c446fae7b

https://www.fox17online.com/news/national-news/gvsu-u-of-m-among-50-colleges-facing-federal-investigations-as-part-of-trumps-anti-dei-campaign