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”.
Last year the students voted to add $27.20 to each tuition bill, to fund some kind of "reparations.” Its really the ultimate in virtue signaling. approx. 25% of those who voted are already gone, having passed on the cost of their sanctimony to newly arrived students (ie. parents). The University Administration then decided they would not go that route, but rather create a roughly equivalent amount of money ($400K) and create some kind of "reparations fund."
You are correct they should have never put their name to it. No amount of $$ offered will ever be enough. But I know Georgetown people and how they think. They exist firmly in the DC political and woke bubble. There is no one with the courage to resist this.