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A fact from William Stewart Simkins appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 December 2007, and was viewed approximately 1,913 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
For the record he does not seem to be a direct descendant of Eldred Simkins, despite what his father's first name would suggest. -- Kendrick7talk 05:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I believe with the recent news of the push to rename Simkins hall, this wikipeida page should be protected. I found in this article a statement claiming that Simkins wanted the south to overcome its racist past. This statement may or may not have been true, but the statement seemed misleading. It seemed to indicate Simkins was not indeed racist, but in the same source used to show is push to overcome the "Souths racist past he also made statements such as this. "I was staying at the hotel in my town when one morning a lady came in apparently quite frightened and in tears. I asked her what troubled her. She said she had been insulted by a negro. Ascertaining the name of the negro I seized a barrel stave lying near the hotel door and whipped that darkey down the street and into the Freedman's Bureau. While an information was filed against me they sent the negro out of town and dismissed the information without any effort on my part to interfere with the prosecution" He also talked about the creation of the Ku Klux Klan as an group that helped police the black belt of crime and inflammatory speech. He also derided the 14th Amendment, a Amendment that gave African American's citizenship. I am not claiming that he was racist, but I feel that the article is biased leaving out at least some of this information. Given the current situation at UT, it seems that this article needs to be updated with an eye for the impartial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.101.70.7 (talk) 22:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
