Posted on 04/19/2017 10:17:10 AM PDT by EveningStar
An apology from Georgetown and the Society of Jesus’ Maryland Province for their roles in the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals for the university’s benefit took place today in the company of more than 100 descendants.
“Today the Society of Jesus, who helped to establish Georgetown University and whose leaders enslaved and mercilessly sold your ancestors, stands before you to say that we have greatly sinned,” said Rev. Timothy Kesicki, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, during a morning Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope. “We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
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“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Pandering to racial animus is not going to help matters...
News flash....
Cain apologizes for the untimely demise of Abel.
Full story on NPR.
Talk is cheap. Where my reparations at?
Still waiting for black lives matter to apologize for the destruction in Ferguson.
Apologies are one thing but perhaps reparations directly to the descendants are in order. They should have the names, so do some work and pay them. Its a social justice thing right?
It’s amazing that the people of that city who never owned slaves themselves, have to apologize to a bunch of people who were never slaves. Absolutely ridiculous.
“Today the Society of Jesus, who helped to establish Georgetown University ...
Jesus helped establish Georgetown University?
Old school.
“WE”? How old is that guy?
ping
Caesar, Atticus, Augustus, Justus, Remus, Maximus, Octavius, Philo, Septimus.....
I wondered that too. These people love to virtue-signal, it’s easy and it’s free. I think we should make them put their money where their mouths are (mind, I say their money, not other peoples’), just to make them put up or shut up.
Somebody brought up a continuum of discrimination, citing slavery, Jim Crow, the school to prison pipeline, over incarceration of people of color........
These people will never be satisfied that enough has been done to redress the problems of the past.
And I never understand the need they have to focus on the distant past. We abolished slavery. Yes it was horrible that it was allowed but we abolished the practice. Yes Jim.Crow was bad but we passed civil rights laws to do away with legalized segregation.
We have instituted policies such as affirmative action to try to right the wrongs of the past.
But no matter what we do It seems that it will never be enough.
Or tpsparaphrase others, we can do the apology thing and tell about what has been done to make up for the past, but someone will still want their reparations.
I feel ‘better’ how ‘but you? Sheesh! It was 1838! A little thing happened 23 years later. The US Civil War, perhaps Georgetown teaches about that?
Are they going to let 200 more years pass before they apologize to US for their acts of war against the citizens of the Unites States, acts not limited to establishing safe houses and smuggling organizations designed to prey on the tax payers and further put the citizens lives, health and wealth in jeopardy by introducing criminals and drunken miscreants into our society?
I spit on the evil Jesuits who mock our Saviour with their phony and pretentious lies.
School officials are truly mentally ill.
“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Pandering to racial animus is not going to help matters...
Who are the slaves to whom they apologized?
Tomorrow they will apologize for all the indentured servants who helped build early America.
I think that reparations are in order.
I as a Swede, Norwegian, Finn, Irishman and Frenchman did not get my cut of the sale of the slave from the tribesman in Africa. Those descendants of the slaver in Africa owe me big time!
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