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Georgetown opened Pandora's box. The slave descendants demanding more money don't say how much more. They criticize the school for "decid[ing] how much money we’re owed in reparations", but do they expect a blank check?

This is a preview of what a national debate on reparations would look like.

1 posted on 02/06/2020 10:15:22 AM PST by karpov
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Go read the comments. I’ve never seen such spineless, cowardly, virtue signalling.


2 posted on 02/06/2020 10:18:51 AM PST by dljordan
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No one alive committed the crime and no one alive was a victim.

If they could identify the descendants, and really wanted to do something, they could offer a full ride scholarship to any who could qualify for admission.


3 posted on 02/06/2020 10:19:01 AM PST by marron
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4 posted on 02/06/2020 10:19:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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deduct the value of freedom and call it even...

slaves no longer.


5 posted on 02/06/2020 10:19:35 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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Sold by Catholic priests to tyrannical slave masters in the swamps of Louisiana!?

Don’t just bankrupt Georgetown! Hit the Vatican too!


6 posted on 02/06/2020 10:20:06 AM PST by Regulator
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That’s clearly not enough money. And the next amount isn’t enough either.


7 posted on 02/06/2020 10:21:04 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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How much do the descendants of union soldiers get?


8 posted on 02/06/2020 10:21:11 AM PST by samtheman (Trump TV Ad: Virginia takes guns. NY legalizes crime. Iowa steals votes. What Democrats do.)
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...has a roughly $1.6 billion endowment.

That ought to just about cover it......................

9 posted on 02/06/2020 10:21:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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Since I’m not a Jesuit priest, I’m off the hook. Have pope a dope fess up. (I remember when the pope was respected.)


10 posted on 02/06/2020 10:21:27 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Agreed.

Georgetown made a terrible mistake in even agreeing that reparations were gonna be offered. They did open a Pandora’s box by doing that.

They’d have been better off by stating to the student activists “We are not gonna do this. It will in no way, shape or form make up for what happened in the past. What we will do is set up a fund for five years. This fund will be financed entirely by student and professor voluntary contributions”.

Unspoken would be “If you don’t like this, you are of course free to pursue your studies at another college or university”.


11 posted on 02/06/2020 10:21:55 AM PST by MplsSteve
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When will this ever end?


12 posted on 02/06/2020 10:22:04 AM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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Universities will be the death of our nation yet.


14 posted on 02/06/2020 10:23:07 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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Is there anyone alive today that isn’t, at least partially, descended from some slave or another, some number of generations ago? That’s a lot of reparations to circulate.

Hey, there are active slave markets all over the world, right now, especially in Africa. How many of these reparations mongers give half a damn?


16 posted on 02/06/2020 10:23:50 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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Compare the quality of their lives today in N America vs the quality of life of the average African, which they would have been having had their ancestors not been brought here. We’ll be expecting payment for the difference.

Want reparations? How about repatriation instead?


18 posted on 02/06/2020 10:24:25 AM PST by Edward Teach
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Go hit up the Jesuits for the money kids.


19 posted on 02/06/2020 10:27:02 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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It would be easier if Georgetown just set up 272 full ride scholarships available only to African American descendants of slaves. I assume Georgetown is expensive to attend for four years, so after the 272 scholarships were awarded, a huge monetary value will have been given by the school.


20 posted on 02/06/2020 10:27:03 AM PST by Cecily
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FULL Reparations must include relocation to one’s continent of ancestry.


21 posted on 02/06/2020 10:27:54 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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Slavery was an abomination to all people.

But you can make the check out to us. :)


22 posted on 02/06/2020 10:28:49 AM PST by Tzimisce
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they could, get out of this by saying

“Oh- you thought we said ‘Reparations’? No, Nope- Not what we said at all, what We actually said ‘Repatriation’, Sorry that you misunderstood- If you want this, Pack you bags, We’ll oblige you all we can”


23 posted on 02/06/2020 10:29:07 AM PST by Bob434
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Lefties munching on the hands that feed them. It would not be so bad if Universities lost their endowments. It is corrupt money for the most part.


25 posted on 02/06/2020 10:30:07 AM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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