Georgetown University students are voting Thursday on a proposed student fee that would fund reparations for descendants of slaves once sold by the school. If it is passed and implemented by Georgetown, it would be the first reparations policy at any major institution in America.
The referendum would add a fee of $27.20 to be paid by every Georgetown undergraduate once a semester. A new board of trustees would allocate those funds to the descendants of the "GU272" — the 272 slaves Georgetown sold in 1838 to boost the university's finances. There are an estimated 4,000 living descendants of those enslaved people.
Students for GU272, a student group supporting the vote, calls it "an unprecedented opportunity for us to come together and take action and responsibility as a Georgetown community." Other elite universities — including Harvard and Yale — have confronted their historic ties to slavery, but never before has there been a student-led fund for reparations. The vote is online and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.
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23 comments:
Good luck with future enrollment
I suspect there are no math major in that crowd.
On average every descendant will get $56 a year
So students will be paying because the college sold slaves. Why not give a discount to those that had family that were slaves. Oh yeah they would lose money that way.. This way someone else pays for their mistakes.
So, Black students will pay along with Republicans whose families never had slaves will be paying their share? I don't get the math here. There is no person alive whose parents had or were ever slaves. This happens every election cycle. Politicians offering free shoot in exchange for votes!
What a joke.
And good luck with future endowmeents.
Never owned a slave and neither did my lineage, so force a Democrat to pay it, they are the ones who owned slaves and fought to keep them slaves, they still do to this day.
Surprising the college doesn't have hundreds of millions in their endowment to pay.
Ain't they just special.
I need reparations for taxation without representation.
Instead they should determine how many 'descendants' are HS grads each year and admit them tuition free for 4 years. To pay for their tuition and make room they should conduct a lottery among current students and dis-enroll enough students to create the vacancies, without regard to any other factor. Freshman or senior, jock or bookworm, race, gender.
Then the students would have some skin in the game instead of just raising parents' tuition bill.
Instead of expecting reparations, they should feel lucky to live HERE in the greatest nation on the planet than THERE, whatever terrible country that their own leaders gathered their ancestors and sold them to the Dutch.
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Never owned a slave and neither did my lineage, so force a Democrat to pay it, they are the ones who owned slaves and fought to keep them slaves, they still do to this day.
April 10, 2019 at 7:21 PM
No one fought to keep slaves. More ignorant ranting from an uneducated person.
I think instead of reparations they should be offered the same deal as their ancestors got. A free trip home. You don't like living in this so called racist discriminating country? Your pissed your ancestors didn't take the deal and go home? then its a cheap boat trip back to Africa and you can be happy and enjoy your life. Since obviously you don't want to get along with the people here.
7:21 perhaps you should read up and quit drinking the Kool-Aid.
So the slaves where bought off once and now your buying them again. Just have an auctioneer bid for them. Liberal thinking at it's worst.
Georgetown University, Americas leading institution of the promotion of White Guilt.
I pray I live long enough to watch these liberal progressive Pus**** crumble when they realize this socialist ideology doesn't work. People why do you think Obama sold off military surplus to local law enforcement?? The government knows whats coming and realizes they can't handle the backlash
12:06 Said it best. And it's probably the same thing that many people are thinking.
We have to remember how these things start: every 4 years, a politician running for president is buying votes offering free sh*t. And what better way to pander to many inner city blacks than a 'sympathy card' with money in it. You can't win them over with tax-cuts, because they don't pay any.
Hillary learned the hard way. If you don't get the black vote like ol' Barry did - twice, you ain't gonna live in da' White House.
Liberal echo chambers like Georgetown is great fodder for presidential candidates and the MSM rebroadcasts.
Plus, it's one more great divider to make blacks hate whites. Isn't that the Democratic strategy anymore??
6:51 but you all let them!!!! Here ends your lesson!!!! Here's your sign!!!!
I wonder how long it will be before they cry that the "white House"is racist and should be renamed??
They might want to paint the white house black.
Whites need a Go-Me Fund for White reparations from the
Blacks for Affirmative Action !!!!
White people fought to take them out of slavery. Plus they get to live in the greatest country in the world. So, reparations paid in full.
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