Posted on 04/12/2019 3:47:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Students at Georgetown University may soon see a new $27.20 fee pop up on their bill each semester, and it's one they voted to add. ABC News reports that undergrads at the Jesuit college voted Thursday, by an almost 2-to-1 margin, to approve a referendum that would mandate the fee, which would benefit descendants of slaves that Georgetown sold in 1838 to fend off financial ruin. CNN notes that the collected fees would amount to about $400,000 annually and, per the bill, would "be allocated for charitable purposes directly benefiting the descendants ... and other persons once enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits." The referendum isn't binding, however, and would still need to get the OK from the university's board of trustees.
So why the specific $27.20? There were 272 slaves sold off for about $500,000 in today's dollars to keep the university out of debt. "The Jesuits sold my family and 40 other families so you could be here," one sophomore descendant said at a town hall last week, per ABC. "It's not enough to say sorry," concurs another student, who has interviewed some of the descendants for the student newspaper, per CNN. "Georgetown has to put their money where their mouth is and invest into the descendant community." Other students, however, dissent with the majority who voted for the fee; even some of those who agree reparations should somehow be made don't think students should be the ones to shoulder the burden. "There is an obligation for Georgetown to reconcile its sins, and that obligation falls squarely on the institution," one sophomore notes. (A New York Times columnist recently changed his mind on reparations.)
Therefore the only sensible and logical thing to do with GU is to burn it to the ground.
Destroy every last racist reminder of it.
And then salt the ground it was on.
Georgetown should have been burnt when they hired pro-abortion former congresscritter Robert Drinan, SJ.
Georgetown must not have a good math department. That fee works out to a little over $200/year for each of the 4000 known descendants. This will only make the snowflakes even more smug, and the descendants even angrier.
Jesuits...yeeeech!
Heck they ought to be willing to pay $2720 every semester and that would be a pittance compared to their actual costs.
If you think Georgetown University owes you money “COME ON DOWN”
If Georgetown wants to fund something, it should come out of its endowment and large donors not from the hides of students.
272 slaves.
= $0.10 per slave.
Sounds about right.
If I were a G’town alumnus, that would be the end of any support for the university.
What do they care? Mommy and daddy are paying for it. Or student loans that they are counting on leftist rat politicians to wipe away will pay for it.
Ummm, it wasn't the Jesuits that enslaved them. They simply purchased them, and later sold them, all in compliance with the laws of the land at the time.
Does Georgetown Law understand the term ex post facto?
Did they ask their parents who are paying for their education?
WHAT !!! Not even a mule?
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Why not $2.72?
Only pay 3/5 of that.
Voting to have their parents spend money for this bullsheit idea... such votes come very cheap indeed — since most of the students aren’t paying their own way -anyway.
As long as the payments are strictly voluntary I see no problem. the funds maintenance fees will gobble it up like the Clinton Foundation.
Besides saddling future students with that fee is like a government saddling future generations with the debts of the present generation.
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