The Deady Hall renaming drive teaches us something important.  Just a Oregonians were blind to the evils of traditional slavery 150 years ago, modern do-gooders are blind to current evils.  Today, 1 percent of the American population has been enslaved in the prisons.  Blacks and minorities are disproportionately represented.  A few are there because they pose a serious threat to others.  Most are there because Americans still don't get it when it comes to respecting fellow humans.  Those who expend energy on the dead Deady issue, apparently have no problem with the enslavement of so many, this time in cages where every action including excrement is monitored and controlled.  The blindness of the many to current atrocities and the focus on those past that no one can do anything about is so representative.  We still do not respect our fellows.  Start with current practice which can be changed.  The focus on the past is cowardly and empty.