Catholic ping!
Posted on 11/17/2015 1:40:13 PM PST by NYer
Georgetown University has announced it will rename two buildings which were named for former presidents with ties to slavery.
No word yet on the Jesuit university recanting all the honors it has bestowed on pro-abortion politicians.
Now, according to the Washington Post, the Jesuits owned slaves and sold them to pay off debt? Wow. I'd never heard that. That's a pretty large and glaring gap in Matt's historical knowledge right there. Kind of embarrassing, huh? So that's clearly a bad thing the Jesuits did. But it seems to me that it's kinda' interesting the timing of G'town's decision to rename buildings, don't ya' think?
WaPo:
Georgetown University will rename two buildings named for school presidents who organized the sale of Jesuit-owned slaves to help pay off campus debt in the 1830s, the university’s president announced.It's no coincidence that this happened a week after Mizzou and Ithaca. I assume we're going to be getting a lot of these kinds of stories because university presidents are soiling their jammies with the thought of being protested by liberal students right now. So they're going to be doing backflips to please them.
Mulledy Hall, a new student dormitory named for the president who authorized the sale of about 272 slaves to a Louisiana plantation owner in 1838, will be called Freedom Hall until a permanent name is chosen.
McSherry Hall, which houses a meditation center and was named for another university president who served as an adviser on the slave sale, will be called Remembrance Hall until it is renamed.
In a letter e-mailed to the Georgetown community Saturday evening, President John J. DeGioia said he was changing the names based on a recommendation he received Friday from his Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation. DeGioia appointed the panel of 16 administrators, faculty and students in September to examine slavery-related sites on campus.
“As a university,” DeGioia wrote, “we are a place where conversations are convened and dialogue is encouraged, even on topics that may be difficult.”
Catholic ping!
So, when do we have to rename Washington, DC?
Sad Jesuits were slave owners even in the 1830s. They should of known better.
Should have...
Orwell would be proud.
Isn’t a “fluke” the same as an accident?
I often wonder just how much thought was given by the average person to the negro as a slave in the America of antebellum days? Did the people of those days lose any sleep over the plight of the negro? Did people of those days lose their appetite over the fact the negro was generally held in bondage or if not a slave excluded from the rest of our society? I really tend to doubt it as crops had to be planted ships built, governments administered etc.
BINGO!
I haven't heard that they're demanding Harvard return the land and the 2015 equivalent of the money to the descendants of the donor. After all, blood money is blood money . . . ;-)
Because there is absolutely nothing more important that these people need to be concerned about.
When will the Left stop demanding a totalitarian state and just demand this allegedly irredeemably racist country be simply disestablished so we can start over?
For that matter, destroy the whole campus.
Then, there is the Capitol building of the federal government . . . built in part with slave labor . . .
Then, there is the Washington monument, built in part with slave labor . . .
Then there is the Lincoln monument, honoring an outspoken white supremacist . . .
Key & Peele on “Black Ice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM
A liver fluke.
A fluke is a parasite.
I wonder if anyone has looked up how the slaves were treated in Louisiana and how their descendants made out. Probably better than those in the ‘hood.
I also wonder if any of these Jesuits have ever heard of St. Peter Claver.
Self-centered idiots (btw—that is redundnat if you know Greek).
I’ll agree with that!
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