Posted on 02/06/2019 6:19:00 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Georgetown students may pay reparations for slavery with new student fee
Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor •February 6, 2019
UPDATED
‘We recognize the great privileges we have been given, and wish to at least partially repay our debts’
Georgetown University students will soon vote on whether they want to tax themselves to benefit the descendants of slaves sold by the university in the 1830s.
Its student government recently authorized a campuswide student referendum on whether to establish a fund for the families of the 272 men, women and children sold by Georgetown in 1838.
If approved, the semesterly fee would begin to be collected in the fall of 2020 and start at $27.20 per student “in honor of the 272 people sold by Georgetown,” states the student government resolution approving the referendum, a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The College Fix.
“The proceeds of the GU272 Reconciliation Contributions will be allocated for charitable purposes directly benefiting the descendants of the GU272 and other persons once enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits — with special consideration given to causes and proposals directly benefiting those descendants still residing in proud and underprivileged communities,” the resolution stated.
The student government resolution approving the campuswide referendum was passed Feb. 3 by a vote of 20 in favor and 4 against, and with that the student body vote will occur in April alongside the annual student government elections, according to the resolution.
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Death of America.
It’s ok. Just add it to that student loan you want the Democrats to pay off for you.
Yeah my N-word! Gimme muh cheese!
If they are serious let them give up their organs,
starting with their skin and kidneys and eyes.
The crowned heads of the Democrat party plan to address reparations through wealth taxes.
How big is the school’s endowment? How many of these students have a free ride or exemption?
Paying “reparations” to people who were never slaves.
Now, tax the descendants of the slaves to pay recompense to the families of the 300,000 union troops who died to free them.
Today a slave costs about $90 on average worldwide. (Source: Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. See all Free the Slaves books.)
https://www.freetheslaves.net/our-model-for-freedom/slavery-today/
Wow, blood of thousands of young, white soldiers wasn’t enough. The blood sweat and tears of white Christian abolitionists wasn’t enough. And that was for ACTUAL SLAVES! This is just sick! Disrespectful to the sacrifices so many made for malcontent descendents. Guilty because I am white? Eff off. My ancestors were treated like garbage. Almost every race had slaves and indentured servant ancestors. Why are blacks so special?
How else they gone git they stuff?
It will never stop unless we force it to stop.
This mental idiocy has to stop. Its driving normal people crazy because crazy people are taken seriously.
Camel’s nose in the tent, white guilt, prove how liberal they are, by paying money to people who were never slaves. And indeed, those getting the money are beneficiaries of policies such as affirmative action.
And being paid by people who never owned slaves.
Lunacy.
Why are they not protesting all the nation states in Africa and the Middle East that support slavery right now?
Huh.
My paternal ancestors had one slave - who chose to stay with them like a member of the family after the War, until the end of her life.
My husband’s family were never even here until long after ‘the late unpleasantness’.
Am I ‘guilty as hell but free as a bird’?
Let’s see, how can we decrease enrollment?
Are black students at Georgetown going to be required to pay the reparations fee? Serious question. Since they themselves are descended from slaves in many cases, the NAACP and Al Sharpton et. al could protest on their behalf, how unfair and immoral it would be to apply such fees to black students.
What? No endowment?
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