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Since Duke University is named after
Jun 19, 2020, 2:58 PM
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David Ernest Duke, a neo Nazi white supremacist and former grand wizard of the klan, when will Duke University change their name?
I know Jay Bilas has been outspoken about Dabo and Clemson, but it seems awfully convenient that he has been silent about this Duke controversy.
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A dukie being a homer? Inconceivable!***
Jun 19, 2020, 3:02 PM
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They should be the white devils***
Jun 19, 2020, 3:08 PM
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Put a cape on Coach K and give him a pitchfork and...
Jun 19, 2020, 5:32 PM
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You got the first coach/mascot in college sports history.
~JKB
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 19, 2020, 3:15 PM
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This has to worry the Mayo bowl in Charlotte.
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 19, 2020, 3:16 PM
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Uh, it's named by James B. Duke, not David Duke.
James Buchanan Duke was the original founder of the American Tobacco Company in Durham. He established the Duke Endowment, a major portion of which went to then-named Trinity College. Once Trinity got that funding, they changed the name to Duke University and moved to Durham from Trinity, NC.
The university itself was James' idea and named for his father Washington Duke. There's a Washington Duke Inn on Duke's campus nearby the athletic area.
Duke was actually my first choice school and I didn't get in because I screwed around my senior year of HS. Clemson was my second choice and I ended up attending from 2011-2016. But I used to live about 45 mins from Duke's campus and visited regularly before my fam moved to Charlotte and I ended up at Clemson.
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Well, there you go, first sentence
Jun 19, 2020, 3:21 PM
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See what you did there? Just who do you think picked all the tobacco for his company?
There's no way out, no matter what you do. The snowball is rolling full speed and it ain't stoppin'.
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Heisman Winner [105574]
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Re: No that’s incorrect. It was named after David Duke.
Jun 19, 2020, 3:40 PM
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Now that’s funny. I give you that one.
I think I’ll just sit back and enjoy the dook bashing. Yes, that’s the way we spell Dook.
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 19, 2020, 4:09 PM
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djb-ws is correct. It was named for Washington Duke, a tobacco farmer who left his farm to fight in the Civil War. After the war, he was penniless and went back to his farm, where he and his son James Duke, rebuilt it. I doubt that he would have had the money to buy any slaves. His later started W Duke and Sons tobacco company. Their claim to fame was having the first cigarette making machine. So if you want to bad mouth them, there is that!James Duke later gave a lot of money in his father's name to what was then Trinity College and it was remaned Duke.
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Heisman Winner [105574]
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Trust me, I wish your version was correct but I’m right on
Jun 19, 2020, 4:24 PM
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this one. And yet Jay Bilas sits there silently like the hypocrite he is. Sad!
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 20, 2020, 9:41 AM
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Wiki states he owned a slave before the war, but yes, after the war he was broke, and he certainly wasn't the grand wizard of the KKK.
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Orange Blooded [2638]
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I heard that it came down to Trinity and Wofford
Jun 21, 2020, 12:15 AM
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and they picked Trinity in the end. A couple of good small Methodist colleges.
Not sure if that is true though.
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Are you sure you didn't get rejected from Duke for
Jun 20, 2020, 11:39 AM
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possessing traits that don't allow you to be able to spot obvious sarcasm?
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So, you're saying it wasn't named after
Jun 19, 2020, 5:03 PM
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the MAYONNAISE? Sheesh...imagine that!
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Re: So, you're saying it wasn't named after
Jun 19, 2020, 5:13 PM
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All these years,I thought Duke was named after John Wayne ___ man,you learn something new everyday**
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No, Duke doesn’t have to change their name. They’ve made amends by...
Jun 19, 2020, 5:29 PM
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Paying millions upon millions of dollars in reparations to several black basketball players.
They’re Even Zion! I mean, Even Steven!
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 19, 2020, 5:32 PM
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Wasn't he the father of Randolph and Mortimer?
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 19, 2020, 7:11 PM
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Lol
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Somebody that does twitter should ask him that. lol***
Jun 19, 2020, 6:50 PM
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does this mean that if Bob Hitler starts a school or
Jun 20, 2020, 6:28 AM
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has a building named after him,
we don't get to march around outside and protest?!
Asking for me as I was tooling up as we speak: placard, check; gun, check; bottle of Mayo, check.....
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such A post
Jun 20, 2020, 7:28 PM
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Should never be .. post of the day. Completely false information about one of America’s great institutes of learning. Duke was begun with tobacco money and had nothing to do with nazis,
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 20, 2020, 9:39 AM
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Duke University is named after Washington Duke.
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Orange Blooded [4505]
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The Duke family also endowed several other school including
Jun 20, 2020, 9:46 AM
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Furman and Johnson C. Smith.
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Re: Since Duke University is named after
Jun 20, 2020, 9:52 AM
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Dabo wore a t shirt that said football matters by his own pool. The horror.
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