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US conservation group to drop Audubon name over 'pain' caused by slaveholder

  
Via:  Just Jim NC TttH  •  3 years ago  •  30 comments

By:   Oliver Milman (MSN)

US conservation group to drop Audubon name over 'pain' caused by slaveholder
A leading US conservation group, the Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS), has announced it will change its name, due to the "pain" caused by the 19th-century ornithologist and slaveholder John James Audubon. The group, which holds wildlife sanctuaries across Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland, said that it had become clear its name did not connect to its diverse set of programmes and that some members and volunteers had objected. "The mission and...

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A leading US conservation group, the Audubon Naturalist Society (ANS), has announced it will change its name, due to the "pain" caused by the 19th-century ornithologist and slaveholder John James Audubon.

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The group, which holds wildlife sanctuaries across Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland, said that it had become clear its name did not connect to its diverse set of programmes and that some members and volunteers had objected.

Related: The Birds of America by John James Audubon - in pictures

"The mission and vision of the organisation have not changed," said Lisa Alexander, executive director of ANS.

"The deliberate and thoughtful decision to change our name is part of our ongoing commitment to creating a larger and more diverse community of people who treasure the natural world and work to preserve it. It has become clear that this will never be fully possible with the current name."

© Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Images from the book The Birds of America 1827-1838 by John James Audubon. Audubon, who achieved fame through his detailed studies and illustrations of American birds, was a slaveholder.

Originally called the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia, ANS was set up in 1897 as part of a wave of such groups seeking to protect bird species then under threat from hunters.

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Audubon achieved lasting fame for his detailed studies and illustrations of American birds, made in the early 19th century.

More recently, he has come under scrutiny for his buying and selling of enslaved people in the 1820s; for his objections to the abolitionist movement; and for writings that portrayed black and indigenous people as inferior to whites.

Audubon, who was born in modern-day Haiti but moved to the US before dying in New York in 1851, took five human skulls from a battlefield in Texas and sent them to Samuel Morton, a doctor who attempted to determine differences that he claimed showed varying intelligence levels between races.

"We can and must do better to address equity and racial justice in everything we do," said Diane Wood, incoming board president of ANS. "We are deeply invested in breaking down barriers and acknowledging our part in an exclusionary past."

ANS said a new name will be chosen following a "deliberate and thoughtful process of listening and learning" with its members and other nature enthusiasts.

The National Audubon Society, the largest group to still hold Audubon's name, has acknowledged his actions but has not committed to changing its title.

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Just Jim NC TttH
Professor Principal
1  seeder  Just Jim NC TttH    3 years ago

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When is this bullshit gonna end....................

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
1.1  Ronin2  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @1    3 years ago

Not until the left erases every white male from history. Or at the very least tarnishes them to the point they become palatable to their lemming disciples. That is the goal. 

 
 
 
Hallux
Masters Principal
1.2  Hallux  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @1    3 years ago
When is this bullshit gonna end...

When all the genealogy books are burnt to cinders.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
1.3  JohnRussell  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @1    3 years ago
"We can and must do better to address equity and racial justice in everything we do," said Diane Wood, incoming board president of ANS. "We are deeply invested in breaking down barriers and acknowledging our part in an exclusionary past."

It's not complicated , rather,  the explanation given by the organization is very straightforward. 

People need to get over their hangups about racial justice. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.3.1  Texan1211  replied to  JohnRussell @1.3    3 years ago
People need to get over their hangups about racial justice. 

People need to get lives and stop obsessing over who owned slaves or whatever they did well over 100 years ago.

What's next, time to rename Washington D.C. and Washington State?

What about all the cities and counties and streets named after people who the progressive liberals have deemed unworthy now?

Best alert the US Mint, too, because (GASP!!!!!!!!!!) some of our coins and bills have some undesirables on them, too!!!!

The sheer insanity of all this boggles the discerning mind!

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
1.3.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Texan1211 @1.3.1    3 years ago

There is nothing insane about it, it is simply the right thing to do.  Why are conservatives afraid of the modern world? 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.3.3  Texan1211  replied to  JohnRussell @1.3.2    3 years ago
There is nothing insane about it

The hell there isn't!

it is simply the right thing to do.

Because YOU say so??? In the words of our President--"C'mon, man!"

Why are conservatives afraid of the modern world?

What trifling nonsense!

The sheer insanity of all this boggles the discerning mind!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.3.4  XXJefferson51  replied to  Texan1211 @1.3.1    3 years ago

That is the bottom line.  This cultural war against the past is a progressive attempt to cancel our history and culture and replace it and them with their useful idiots. 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.3.5  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  JohnRussell @1.3    3 years ago

People need to get over their hangups about actual history.  Everyone's going to forget what Santayana said.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
1.4  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @1    3 years ago

What a bunch of unmitigated horse manure!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.4.1  XXJefferson51  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @1.4    3 years ago

Exactly!  

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.5  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @1    3 years ago

They should change their name to the Bird Brain Society.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
1.5.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @1.5    3 years ago

Then they can change the "demeaning" name of Blackbirds to Nightbirds.

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And burn these fucking books.

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Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
2  Jeremy Retired in NC    3 years ago

Ah the stupidity of selectively applying today's standards to people and actions 100+ years ago.  

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
2.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2    3 years ago

Amazing how the left is so adamant about judging people from 100+ years ago by the standards of today!

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
3  charger 383    3 years ago

Great Gobs of Henshit!  This silliness is gone too far

 
 
 
Jack_TX
Professor Quiet
3.1  Jack_TX  replied to  charger 383 @3    3 years ago
Great Gobs of Henshit!

Please be advised, I intend to plagiarize this phrase at some future date.  Possibly with abandon.  

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
3.1.1  charger 383  replied to  Jack_TX @3.1    3 years ago

Jack & Jeremy,  use it often and with pride

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
3.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  charger 383 @3    3 years ago
Great Gobs of Henshit!

Consider this stolen.

 
 
 
Snuffy
Professor Participates
4  Snuffy    3 years ago

Well, look at things differently.  As nobody is 100% perfect, eventually they will cancel out everybody and everything.  And voila, the planet will be saved from Global Warming (or climate change, I can never keep all that straight) as nothing every existed...   Woo Hoo!!!!!

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
5  Tacos!    3 years ago

Thank Goodness! Our long, dark nightmare is over. People of color can now go about their day peacefully, and without fear of injustice, because the bird watcher club is changing it’s name. Hallelujah!

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
6  Texan1211    3 years ago

When will the "woke" crowd finally stop this bullshit, and when will companies and organizations stop giving in to their idiocy?

A thoroughly disgusting bunch of freaking idiots.

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
7  charger 383    3 years ago

I doubt if the birds and animals helped by Audubon's work and legacy care if he owned slaves, I sure don't.  The wildlife sanctuaries won't be improved by changing the name.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
7.1  Texan1211  replied to  charger 383 @7    3 years ago
I doubt if the birds and animals helped by Audubon's work and legacy care if he owned slaves, I sure don't.  The wildlife sanctuaries won't be improved by changing the name.

I doubt anyone really cares about this stuff.

Just another chance for a few nuts to show how "woke" they are!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
7.1.1  XXJefferson51  replied to  Texan1211 @7.1    3 years ago

That’s the bottom line.  These “woke” people are so freakin worthless as human beings.  I make it a point to find a way to deliberately offend such creatures if I can do so without offending or emotionally harming people with legitimate real issues.  

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
8  charger 383    3 years ago

Stroud Naturalist Society should be their new name for Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz

 
 
 
GregTx
PhD Guide
8.1  GregTx  replied to  charger 383 @8    3 years ago

Yes, that should satisfy the woke crowd....

Robert Stroud - Wikipedia     jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
8.1.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  GregTx @8.1    3 years ago

Well, Robert Franklin Stroud was a brilliant  self taught ornithologist, but he was also a psychopathic murderer incarcerated for life. Yep, that would fit in real good with some on the looney to left!

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
8.1.2  XXJefferson51  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @8.1.1    3 years ago

They would likely prefer him to the original…

 
 
 
squiggy
Junior Silent
9  squiggy    3 years ago

We're just going to have to kill off all the birds - they benefitted, too.

 
 

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