Clay Travis: My New Hero

Clay Travis lost a $3,000 gig with Jack Daniels because of writing the politically incorrect blog excerpted below:

Vanderbilt University, my law school and graduate degree alma mater, became the latest school to succumb to politically correct versions of history when it announced it would remove the name Confederate from the Memorial Hall on campus.

The hall was first named in 1935, after a $50,000 donation from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Now Vanderbilt will be paying $1.2 million to the original donorship group to rename the hall. That’s $1.2 million that could endow several minority scholarships, but instead it’s being used to eliminate the university’s connection to the history of its state, city and region. In so doing the university will actually be sandblasting away reference to the word confederacy on the building which is, you know, exactly what terrorist organizations do to historical relics they don’t approve of in the Middle East.

Welcome to modern campus life, if anything in history offends you, eliminate it.

Of course, I have a truly radical idea: The purpose of a university is not to deny history or create a campus where students never come into contact with uncomfortable ideas. It’s to present an unvarnished look at the real world and prepare the next generation for the fact that not everyone will agree with every idea you have for the rest of your life.

Click here to read the rest of the offensive blog that caused Jack Daniels to penalize Clay Travis.