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Posted on 09/10/2016 4:20:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The descendants of slaves sold by Georgetown University are calling on the school to create a billion-dollar “Reconciliation Fund,” one week after the school apologized for its role in the slave trade and promised several (much cheaper) efforts to make up for it.
In 1838, Georgetown sold off 272 slaves in order to pay its debts, selling them for $115,000 (over $3 million in today’s money). In recent years, the school has faced demands from activists who want it to atone for its actions almost 180 years ago.
A week ago, following the release of a report on the matter, Georgetown president John DeGioia announced Georgetown would offer a special admissions preference for any descendants of the 272 slaves the school sold. He also promised to build an on-campus memorial and renamed two buildings, one after a slave sold by the school and another after a woman who founded a local school for black girls. (RELATED: Georgetown May Have Students Atone For Slavery Via Walk Of Shame)
The school’s decision to confront the more sordid parts of its past won praise from some quarters, though several black writers criticized the move as hopelessly insufficient
But some descendants of the 272 slaves told The Washington Post the school’s recent announcements aren’t enough. They want more. Much more. A billion dollars more
“We appreciate the gestures of a proposed memorial to our enslaved ancestors on Georgetown’s campus and President John DeGioia’s visits with some descendants, but recommendations developed without the meaningful participation of descendants can only be seen as preliminary,” descendant Sandra Green Thomas said in a Thursday statement.
Thomas and other descendants have a much bolder vision than just extracting an apology from Georgetown. They want to set up a billion-dollar, national foundation that would be a leader in “the issue of truth and reconciliation.”
Advocates say the foundation isn’t a matter of reparations, because the foundation would ideally benefit the whole country.
“Our vision is not about reparations,” said Joseph Stewart, another advocate for the descendants. “It’s not about getting anything that just benefits descendants. It’s about having an opportunity to have a common good.” Despite the bold plans, it’s not entirely clear what the huge foundation would actually do.
The descendants say they’ve managed to raise $115,000 (matching the un-inflated original sales price of the slaves), but they need Georgetown’s money and backing to make the ten-figure foundation a reality.
While Georgetown is a wealthy university, a foundation of that size would be a massive commitment. As of 2015, the school’s endowment was $1.5 billion, substantially smaller than comparable top 25 schools such as Notre Dame, Duke University, and second-tier Ivies such as Brown University.
Both Georgetown and the Maryland province of the Jesuit religious order, where operates the school, have responded with cautious statements that say they are open to working with the descendants but don’t offer any specific support to the planned foundation.
I’d like the slush fund created so the obam could be named to run it. Lord knows he looked at the Clinton foundation longingly and would love to have a bucket to skim for the rest of his no-account life.
Tell them Obama sent the money to Iran, in cash.
They should trying running, it did wonders for a place named Iran.
...but just as meaningless.
I am reminded of a building housing a reconciliation center.
It is abandoned, empty, and desolate as the effort to which it was dedicated. Living in the past is counter productive, you either get on with life or you are doomed to a lifetime of chasing a rainbow you will never reach.
I know an individual who leaves wreckage behind for every step marching in place. His quest is hopeless, but he continues on the same path. No drugs not tobacco, no booze, to my knowledge, but a walking disaster living for what he thinks is owed him.
By whom would be my first question? I don’t think he knows or cares.
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Negroes want restitution.
Mexicans want reconquista.
Muslims want rulership over everything.
I want them all smacked down hard.
That’s just for starters.
Sounds like even back then, Georgetown was a bunch of eggheads with no common sense. Only $113,000 for 272 slaves? Back then, a strong slave could fetch you $5000 easy. 272 slaves should’ve fetched them over $1 million.
I’m FEELING like descendant of a Georgetown Slave, I feel that i deserve my “fair share” of the reparations.
Come and get it, Obamaholes.
The 660,000 men killed and millions more wounded during the Civil War is not enough for these filthy, ignorant bastards.
Georgetown long ago renounced any association with intellect and logic.
I believe that a large portion of government’s most inept agency, the State Dept, are graduates of this septic tank.
Don’t encourage them. They’ll always be unsatisfied that what was done wasn’t enough in the next generation. Helping isn’t helping it’s crippling.
They made it crystal clear that this was NOT reparations;
but rather a “Reconciliation Fund”. (Reparations will be
a LOT more - and STILL will NEVER suffice.)
My career Navy father always had some proverb, cliche, axiom...his version was a bit different.
'Give them an inch, and they will take a mile.
This bunch is going for a lightyear.
Any company able to amass a billion and a half in investment assets probably should be taxed a bit more. And, as the story notes, Georgetown is actually a piker in that department.
Let’s clean out the endowments of the leftist training centers by slight revision of the tax code. Once the tenured free riders have to start working for a living, they may have a different view of economics.
AGAIN, let them reconcile with the african nations that sold their own black brothers and sisters into slavery to begin with....
“In 1838, Georgetown sold off 272 slaves in order to pay its debts, selling them for $115,000 (over $3 million in today’s money).”
Wow! That’s more than their decedents will earn in a lifetime!/sarc
Except for GU basketball players...
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