People advocating to change the names of municipalities signal how individuals are moving toward not accepting what was previously considered appropriate, according to the Faculty of Education Prof. Carl James.

“These changes of names have to come with an education.” James said every institution must be involved in the education of racism, including families, schools and government.

“Simply removing the names, I think, is a nice performance,” he said. “It’s like sending a nice apology letter, but you maintain the system, so just simply changing the name is not going to be enough, and of course, should not be enough.”

“We need to create a different kind of society, and I think this is what this period is asking us to do,” James said.