Georgetown University to offer admissions advantage to slave descendants

AOL News ^ | September 1, 2016 | NBC News

[2ndDivisionVet]

Georgetown will offer an admissions edge to descendants of slaves as part of a comprehensive atonement for the university's historical ties to slavery, its president announced Thursday.

Those ties go back nearly two centuries, when the Washington, D.C., school sold 272 slaves and used the proceeds to pay off debt.

Georgetown President John J. DeGioia will offer a public apology Thursday afternoon for the 1838 sale and will also outline what the university plans to do to acknowledge racism in its past.

In addition to offering descendants the same preferential status in admissions that Georgetown currently offers children of alumni, the university will develop a memorial to the enslaved and will rename two buildings — one after Isaac Hall, a slave whose name is the first mentioned in the 1839 sale documents, and another in honor of Anne Marie Becraft, an African-American who founded a school for black girls in Georgetown's neighborhood in 1827....

[2ndDivisionVet]

You'd think that an institution like that would realize that almost everyone is descended from slaves.

[nickcarraway]

Couldn’t some descendants of slaves be rich white people?

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

What about Jews? After all, we were slaves in Egypt!

[mountainlion]

While doing my ancestry I found a census that listed on of my Irish ancestors as a “servant” so I am fully qualified slave blooded American.

[Eagles6]

I’m part Irish. When do I start?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’m sure the people they mean, will be those descended from Negro slavery in America. Anyone who had ancestors held in slavery elsewhere in the world will not be considered.

Interesting to see liberals who run these colleges, having to bend over backwards to prove they are liberal; to give their own version of reparations for slavery.

[stocksthatgoup]

Must need a larger crop of basketball recruits. White men don’t jump. /s

[Sans-Culotte]

“I see you have a law degree. From...Georgetown. Okay, well, uh, we’ll let you know if an opening in the firm comes up...”

[M Kehoe]

Ancestry dot com will be raking in the money.

5.56mm

[lafroste]

What about the descendants of blacks who were also slave owners? Do they get negative treatment? Further, how can an individual prove that they are the descendants of slaves (which by definition would be those born into slavery before 1861)? There are a lot of black americans that have no historical connection to slavery at all. How do they propose to exclude them? What about white slaves (notably the Irish prior to about 1790)?

Sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare to me.

[CrazyIvan]

I wonder if Liz Warren will try to cash in on this.

[Eagles6]

There were more American and European White Christians enslaved in Africa and the ME at the time of the foinding of this country than black Africans enslaved here.

[wbarmy]

This is a private school, they can do what they want, and give scholarships to whomever.

But few of the slave descendants will take them up on it.

Indians in North Dakota are given a free ride in any school in North Dakota, but few ever take the offer up.

That whole “work” thing the college requires leaves them kind of at a loss.

[Eagles6]

Foinding=founding

[pepsionice]

I think what they are saying is from that 272 group....you could claim a status.

There are several problems to this.

First, you’d have to go back and show some relation to one of those 272 individuals....possibly faking your ‘resume’ to achieve this.

Second, you probably have over 10,000 relatives today from the 272. Figuring the odds on this....of having the right test numbers....you might find only about 500 who might be qualified.

Third, they aren’t saying a free education....they simply say they’d give you a bonus-point deal on admission. You’d still have to pay the $30-odd thousand a year for the tuition.

I would be willing to wager that in five years....at best....they find three people who apply for admission under this rule and get accepted, and eventually we find that at least one of the three did not descend from the original 272 slaves....which will beg questions on ethics and if they are willing to terminate the kid from their program.

[vooch]

GU is giving the desendents of the 200 slaves (sold by GU) the same bonus as children of alumni. Not a big deal

Jack DeGioia is brilliant on this one

[eyeamok]

I hope a bunch of Jews walk in and DEMAND A REDUCTION, They were ALL SLAVES to Africans well before the Africans Sold Their Children to the Evil White man. I might add, that the FIRST LEGAL Slave Owner in America was a Black Man!!!

[2ndDivisionVet]

They say I’m 2% North African, whatever that means.

[Leaning Right]

Will this include descendants of eastern European serfs?

[jobim]

Black professionals from all racist-based (aka affirmative action) colleges
have suspicion wired into their diplomas, unfortunately for those who in fact
made the grade on merit.

And so, meritorious achievement becomes genetic, like homosexuality.....
Wait a minute! If gender is fluid, whatever happened to those born that way?
Born with fluidity?