You'd think that an institution like that would realize that almost everyone is descended from slaves.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Couldn’t some descendants of slaves be rich white people?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What about Jews? After all, we were slaves in Egypt!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
4 posted on
09/01/2016 9:40:08 AM PDT by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m part Irish. When do I start?
5 posted on
09/01/2016 9:40:11 AM PDT by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Must need a larger crop of basketball recruits. White men don’t jump. /s
7 posted on
09/01/2016 9:41:04 AM PDT by
stocksthatgoup
(Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutterThe media fix is in)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“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...”
8 posted on
09/01/2016 9:41:51 AM PDT by
Sans-Culotte
("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ancestry dot com will be raking in the money.
5.56mm
9 posted on
09/01/2016 9:42:38 AM PDT by
M Kehoe
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
10 posted on
09/01/2016 9:42:42 AM PDT by
lafroste
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder if Liz Warren will try to cash in on this.
11 posted on
09/01/2016 9:42:43 AM PDT by
CrazyIvan
(Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
12 posted on
09/01/2016 9:43:30 AM PDT by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
13 posted on
09/01/2016 9:44:02 AM PDT by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
14 posted on
09/01/2016 9:44:31 AM PDT by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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
16 posted on
09/01/2016 9:48:02 AM PDT by
vooch
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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!!!
17 posted on
09/01/2016 9:48:21 AM PDT by
eyeamok
(destruction of government records.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Will this include descendants of eastern European serfs?
19 posted on
09/01/2016 9:50:43 AM PDT by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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?
20 posted on
09/01/2016 9:50:49 AM PDT by
jobim
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Are they careful to not extend those benefits to those who sold slaves? I bet they don’t care.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How about the decendants of union civil war soldiers?
22 posted on
09/01/2016 9:53:12 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Institution of higher guilt and higher political correctness.
Miss the old days of institutions of higher learning.
28 posted on
09/01/2016 10:30:15 AM PDT by
DannyTN
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