Posted on 10/21/2019 6:39:14 PM PDT by usafa92
Princeton Theological Seminary will set aside more than $25 million to pay reparations for its historical ties to slavery, thrusting the seminary to the forefront of a national debate over how America’s should reconcile with its slave-owning past.
Calling the payments an act of repentance, President M. Craig Barnes said in a statement Friday the seminary is “committed to telling the truth," even though the seminary itself never owned slaves.
Founded in 1812, the seminary benefited from the slave economy through investments in Southern banks and from donors who profited from slavery. Its founding faculty and leaders used slave labor during their lifetime and some advocated for sending free black men and women to Liberia, according the seminary.
“The Seminary’s ties to slavery are a part of our story," Barnes said. "It is important to acknowledge that our founders were entangled with slavery and could not envision a fully integrated society... We did not want to shy away from the uncomfortable part of our history and the difficult conversations that revealing the truth would produce.”
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That’s right. It’s looks like a slush fund for left wing causes in the making.
This is chump change. Harvard’s endowment is $38 billion. They could peel off a billion to finance left wing activism and not even notice it.
The left is stoking race hatred and will do so forever, especially around elections.
Through all means possible. Media, politics, ‘entertainment’, whatever.
They just hijacked the ‘Watchmen’ franchise to spew sjw race hatred even more. Saw 1st episode and won’t be ‘watching’ it ever again.
Are the payments going to be made based on the 1860 census, or other documentation?
It’s going to be difficult calculating the distributions to the descendants of the property owners.
The lunacy is clear. The “virtue signaling” is absurd.
If I had $1,000 and gave you $27.00, would you think that I was being generous? What a vacant gesture! I might give the black seminarians $2.70 and tell them to “Piss off!”
No, I’ll tell them to piss off and give them nothing!
Hey Bat,
Another way of illustrating the point:
1 million seconds = about 11 days
27 million seconds = about 271 days
1 billion seconds = about 32 years
1 trillion seconds = about 32,000 years
They ain’t round offs, going from a million to a billion.
one Trillion is one thousand Billion.
Tell that to the folks in Washington, DC!
Warmest Regards,
Where do I apply for ‘Medieval Serf’ reparations ???
Slaves? Like the ones who marched out of Egypt, led by Moses?
Regards,
Precisely— who will be paid a portion of some 25 million bucks—— on what basis,,, inheritance, injustice descendants, what exactly?
Or are they going to build a memorial feel good Pavilion.
Some goes to “booze, birds and fast cars” so it’s not all wasted.
So Malia Obama qualifies.
Not enough, Princeton should be imprisoned.
The faculty,,,,,,,
The tribes in Africa sold the slaves they captured.
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