Descendant of donor calls for legislation school shell out again $3.6 billion soon after ‘woke activists’ stripped faculty title

A descendant of a key donor to a regulation school demanded that the establishment fork out back again $3.6 billion just after a final decision was designed to change the faculty title.

Virginia attorney Robert C. Smith is the terrific-fantastic-grandson of T.C. Williams, the identify behind the College of Richmond’s T.C. Williams Faculty of Legislation.

Williams was a rich 19th-century businessman who owned tobacco companies, a graduate, and a trustee of the College of Richmond. Williams’ spouse and children donated $25,000 to fund the regulation school adhering to his demise.

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Even so, even with Williams’ estate frequently donating to the college, the T.C. Williams University of Law was stripped of its identify. 

The College of Richmond School of Legislation voted to undertake a plan that prohibits the university from naming any making, system, professorship or entity “for a person who instantly engaged in the trafficking and/or enslavement of other individuals or brazenly advocated for the enslavement of men and women.”

The college had uncovered that Williams was a slave owner.

Records demonstrate that Williams’ businesses were being taxed on proudly owning 25 to 40 enslaved men and women. The college mentioned individual tax records for Williams clearly show that he was taxed on possessing a few enslaved individuals. 

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Smith pushes again from the shift to de-title the legislation university, claiming that the university is caving to “woke activists” and would not exist with no the $3.6 billion amount of fiscal contribution from generations of Williams’ relatives customers. 

In a 5-page letter sent on Jan. 30 to University of Richmond President Kevin Hallock, Smith challenged the president to “reveal” their advantage by supplying all the cash back.

Smith said the university could create a observe for the remaining $300 million “giving that it is secured by all the campus structures and all your woke faculty pledge their personal assets and assure the note.”

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“We know in 1888, he gave $10,000 to re-establish the Regulation College and at his demise in 1889 his estate contributed $25,000 to the Law College,” Smith wrote. “A conservative estimate of these gifts, just from the end of the War to his loss of life exceeds $65,000.”

Smith ongoing, “The university’s endowment is $3.3 billion. Considering the fact that you and your activists went out of your way to discredit the Williams identify, and because presumably the Williams family’s funds is tainted, show your ‘virtue’ and give it all back again.”

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“I suggest you promptly convert in excess of the full $3.3 billion endowment to the recent descendants of T.C. Williams, Sr. We will use it all to fulfill the charitable reasons to which it was intended. We will acquire a be aware again for the remaining $300 million, delivering that it is secured by all the campus buildings and all your woke college pledge their own assets and assurance the observe,” he additional. 

Smith also said that the college could have saved its identify if it characteristics the law college to Williams’s son T.C. Williams Jr. alternatively.