I like this one. Again, liberals, this is what you get with appeasement every BLEEPING time. You think you're doing good. They don't care. They never will. These "descendants" deserve as much of that Georgetown endowment as I do.
Posted on 09/09/2016 1:36:43 PM PDT by C19fan
A group of descendants of slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 was unsatisfied with the unprecedented steps the college took to accommodate them, and demanded partnership in a $1 billion foundation vaguely aimed at producing "reconciliation."
In 1838, amid dire financial trouble, Georgetown University sold off 272 slaves for $115,000 (over $3 million in today's dollars). Last week, the university's president, John DeGioia, announced Georgetown would offer special admissions preference for any of the descendants of those slaves, and he promised to build an on-campus memorial to the slaves and renamed a building after one of them. He also promised a public apology for the university's role in the slave trade.
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I have long been a proponent of forcing "Universities" to go the way of the wagon wheel. There is no reason an education should cost anything now that we have video.
The Khan Academy is a perfect example of how someone can learn anything necessary to qualify as a college graduate, and not have to spend a dime.
Trouble is, the "Credentialism" system is rigged by the government to favor this "guild" of "education" providers.
Remove the government obstacles to credentials, and the free market will solve the problem.
I like this one. Again, liberals, this is what you get with appeasement every BLEEPING time. You think you're doing good. They don't care. They never will. These "descendants" deserve as much of that Georgetown endowment as I do.
This is BS. Everyone knows that “descendants of slaves” in this country can’t even get photo IDs, much less six generations of genealogy.
guess these descendents realized they’ll never make the admissions cut even with the boost
The party whose filibuster against it was stopped by Republicans.
You mean that act which is currently shoving homosexuals and transgenders down our throats?
Barry Goldwater recognized that it was an act which would be ripe for abuse, and it has been very greatly abused since that wrong headed law was passed.
Exactly! Bonus points if your ancestor died in the War To Free The Slaves, like mine did. I’m a regular Gold Star Family Descendant, I am.
Er............despite pc bs, African Slavery is a home grown institution, they own 100%, commencing w/the Tribal Chiefs of the 6th century w/the Arabs as their their bus drivers.
A FACT!!!!
Catholic bashing
These broad estimates assume black productivity is as high today as in 1838. Not sure that holds up.
Usually, genealogical research gets tougher the farther back in time you go. In this case, it’s the opposite - many blacks today don’t know who their daddy is. So, G’town might only have to pay out a few cases where a connection can be established.
Camel’s nose under the tent. Georgetown should tell them to stuff it. By their logic, I am owed big bucks from Egypt for enslaving my ancestors.
NO! White men died to free those slaves. The descendants should be billed for the services of those dead men. Their families had no life insurance, no unemployment insurance, no workmen’s compensation etc.
It was muslim slave traders who captured those ancestors. Make the muslims pay for kidnapping, human trafficking, cruelty, and whatever else sticks. Bill the offspring of the black tribal chiefs who sold them or betrayed them to the slave traders.
The people who bought them gave them shelter, fed them, clothed them, gave them jobs and assured their survival so that offspring could even exist in the first place, just like welfare does today.
I’m so tired of this oh poor me BS. Thank God you even live! Your slavery was not pleasant in some cases, but without it, most likely you would have died as those left behind did.
MY people were enslaved, kidnapped and shipped off to parts unknown as well, and the country that did it to this day refuses to acknowledge it or even apologize for it. Furthermore, their lands were confiscated, homes burned, and the farms given away to minor royalty of that enslaving country. 100 years later those people were starving to death, their children parceled out as slaves ...by the churches that took them in no less! Some of my people escaped and came to this country in hopes of finding work and survival. And they entered LEGALLY. LEGALLY! (think trump lol!)
I don’t want to hear the oh poor me bs just cuz your hair is fuzzy and your skin is brown. Grow up, Thank God for what you have today and move on! We live in a fallen world and ‘schitte’ happens.
What about descendants of Criminals should they serve time or be executed for what their ancestors did ?
Funny, the slave who ran away, Frederick Douglass was never at ease, and at peace, until he got his certificate of MANUMMITANCE. Having been manumitted and carrying that proof of freedom, while FREE on his speaking tours he collected the money to send to his master to pay for the investment of his money at the slave market. In return he got his manumission.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing while reading your post.
I’m staunchly Catholic (well, most of the time - LOL) and the Jesuits rank really really low on my pecking order in the Church.
As much as I’d hate to see a precedent set by paying out reparations - I can’t think of a better group to get kicked in the butt than the Jesuits!
Sign me up. My color has faded a bit but send me money!!!
....I would like to see them prove how the current living descendants can prove how they were slaves ....
Well if the argument has come down to a value in dollars, then an equal equation should be used to determine how much economic benefits have accrued for those descendants since their forefathers were slaves. Increased life expectancy, higher standard of living, better health care, economic safety net, and more freedom.
Total all that up through the generations and see what the benefits are from having your ancestry arrive here via the slave trade.
I know. But let’s give the shiv to Georgetown anyway. I enjoy seeing them hoisted on their own petard. Don’t you?
Get into a tanning booth!
I didn’t know grandma Hillary was involved in this story.
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