If Georgetown and others can rename a few buildings, why is it farfetched to think Princeton can? You say a lot of thoughtful things, but I can’t include among them your idea that Black students would be satisfied if the university just fleshed out Wilson’s bio so it included his racism. That’s too little, far too late. Black people hung from trees thanks to “leaders” like Wilson, and just giving a fuller accounting of all the structural ways his racism deprived Black citizens of their rights and worth absolutely isn’t enough. Even if Princeton’s Black students were okay with that, do you think they should be? If Hitler gave money to Yale, would it be cool to ask Jewish students to accept it as long as a full bio was included? The invisibility of Wilson’s racism — from white Americans, who have pretty much been taught forever that racism is dead in this country — is the invisibility of American racism, and thus all these buildings, highways, and statues with the names of racists…all of which Black people are all too aware of. We can and should rename buildings, in the same way Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder is about to have his ass handed to him and forced to change the team’s name. We stand our ground on some of the stupidest stuff, and then write really well-referenced long articles explaining why. I appreciate your writing this, but Black people have had too much taken — their properties and bodies plundered for centuries— for us to ask them to put up with this stubborn clinging to “flawed heroes” of a particularly virulent racist past. Peace.