And regarding Harvard, it isn't enough. They must spend at least 25% of their endowment or they aren't serious. Let's get them to spend enough to at least knock them back a bit.
Posted on 05/06/2022 8:38:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harvard’s sorry for slavery, and it’s ready to prove it by paying prodigiously.
The school recently released a report illustrating ways it benefited from the reprobate practice.
From ABC News:
[Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery], commissioned by [President Lawrence Bacow], found that Harvard’s faculty, staff and leaders enslaved more than 70 Black and Native American people from the school’s founding in 1636 to 1783. It cautions that the figure is “almost certainly an undercount.”
Harvard’s kicking collegiate Caucasians and taking names:
Using historical records, researchers were able to identify dozens of enslaved people by name, along with their connection to the university.
Most were identified only by a single name, such as Cesar, Dinah and Venus.
From the report:
Enslaved men and women served Harvard presidents and professors and fed and cared for Harvard students. Moreover, throughout this period and well into the 19th century, the University and its donors benefited from extensive financial ties to slavery.
Therefore, Harvard “should make a significant monetary commitment, and it should invest in remedies of equal or greater breadth than other universities.”
ABC notes the college’s “growth is credited to support from wealthy donors who accumulated their fortunes through the slave trade and industries (such as that of cotton and railroad) that relied on it.”
So what’s a sorry, historically sinister school to do? In Harvard’s case, the answer involves a colossal amount of cash. Select relatives may benefit bigly:
[The school] is vowing to spend $100 million to study and atone for its extensive ties with slavery…with plans to identify and support the descendants of enslaved people who labored at the Ivy League campus.
Per President Lawrence:
“I believe we bear a moral responsibility to do what we can to address the persistent corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard, and on our society.”
The aftermath of slavery isn’t Harvard’s only cultural concern. In a number of ways, the school’s leading a transformative charge:
Harvard Cancels Feminist’s Speech on Poetry Because She Opposes Males in Women’s Prisons
Harvard Spends a Year Reviewing Its Decor, Finds Too Many Portraits of White Men
Harvard’s New Head Chaplain Is an Atheist
Polyamory Gets Another Push, This Time From Harvard Law
Not everyone’s impressed by the $100 million mea culpa.
As relayed by Fox News, New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah Jones considers the amount “way too low.”
The college could certainly go higher — it boasts an endowment of more than $50 billion.
Aside from throwing cash to descendants, how will it make amends for slavery?
According to ABC, there’s a menagerie of ideas:
The report says Harvard should identify the descendants of enslaved people and engage with them “through dialogue, programming, information sharing, relationship building and educational support.” …
“Through such efforts, these descendants can recover their histories, tell their stories and pursue empowering knowledge,” the report said.
More broadly, it urges Harvard to fight racial inequality by expanding education options for descendants of enslaved people, especially in the South and the Caribbean. It calls on the university to work closely with historically Black colleges across the country, with new funding to bring students and scholars to Harvard for up to a year at a time.
Can the 250-year-old sins of dead people be absolved by monetary means? It would seem no, but Harvard’s clearly committed to letting everyone know they’re trying.
The reds have infiltrated this organization and are destroying it.
They are like termites.
Not nearly enough. Whites, Asians and Latinx must vacate all student and staff seats.
So because someone’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granparent was a slave they get money?
I identify as a slave, to work, to my family, to the world. Where do i sign up for my money?
All the while, Harvard had cotton mills on all four sides. Wonder how long before they’ll puzzle out where all that raw cotton came from - and how rich mill owners contributed to Harvard’s endowment?
The money will go back to Africa, to renovate the slave market in Libya.
[[Harvard University Apologizes for Slavery, Offers $100 Million to Make It Better]]
Bahahahaha- you think that piddly amount makes it go away? Fools!
Better slavery?
Who gets the $100M? Black Lives Matter?
If they’re only going to “study” the matter, they just need half a dozen grad students, some pizzas and a couple cases of beer.
How many slaves did those knucklehead Harvard Yankees have anyway?
My 2nd great grandmother was an indentured servant from Ireland who was raped by her “employer”. Her child was born in a Catholic convent and went on to become my great grandmother.
$100 million will buy a lot of Crown Royal, thats for sure.
Money raised by overcharging current and recent whites for tuition
That’s 0.2% of it’s endowment. Chump change. Half a billion is a good start.
Instead of studying the issue and trying to atone....start good PRIVATE schools in areas which have many descendants of the Harvard slaves. Teach hard work, and intellectual discipline. Make it free and give them a Harvard degree. Then hire them at Harvard or other guilt ridden organizations.
Just open the door and let the descendants get it themselves. If some take advantage it will be good for them. No?
Virtue signaling run amok. 🙄
Appeasement never works.
All it does is fuel the behavior resulting in more of it.
Their demands will then never be satisfied. They will just keep asking for more and more and be convinced that somehow you are still holding out on them.
Most people are misreading where this $100 million will be applied. Reading through the report’s seven recommendations carefully, one sees that the funds never leave Harvard’s control. It is not reparations even for the direct descendents of Harvard slaves (Recommendation 4). They are establishing a fund, but a careful reading of the Recommendations indicates the money will be folded back into Harvard’s actvities. It’s like when they have decide to start a new department, and they allocate money to the effort. It is not money paid to victims to spend as THEY wish.
Works out to be about $50 per descendant, if all of the money went to that alone. Idiots.
And regarding Harvard, it isn't enough. They must spend at least 25% of their endowment or they aren't serious. Let's get them to spend enough to at least knock them back a bit.
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