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Descendants of Slaves Sold by Georgetown U Demand $1 Billion Foundation
PJ Media ^ | September 9, 2016 | Tyler O'Neil

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; georgetownu; highereducation; leftismoncampus; reparations; slavery
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To: C19fan

Descendants of the 600,000 Americans who lost their lives in the war to end slavery demand $100 billion in reparations from descendants of slaves... particularly from Robert Smith, Oprah Winfrey and other deep-pockets AA targets.


61 posted on 09/09/2016 2:15:06 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Stosh

Rename it Georgejeffersontown University


62 posted on 09/09/2016 2:18:56 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Dagnabitt

This.

Plus, a post 1964 freedom tax, an “affirmative action” tax, a welfare reimbursement plan, all plus interest


63 posted on 09/09/2016 2:19:58 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: Enchante

I’d give them two to five years . . max.


64 posted on 09/09/2016 2:21:22 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Factor in abortions too


65 posted on 09/09/2016 2:22:02 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: C19fan

Offering people unqualified to attend college a college education might be problematic, no?


66 posted on 09/09/2016 2:24:20 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: C19fan; Liz; bevperl; flat; unkus; SkyPilot; HarleyLady27; NFHale; sheik yerbouty; seekthetruth; ...

Throughout history how many races and nationalities were sold into slavery or became slaves when they were conquered by the likes of Genghis Khan, the Pharohs of Egypt, the Romans and the list goes on. Every time a nation was conquered, the victors made slaves of the vanquished! How many Jews did Hitler slaughter? How many slaves in the US were killed?

Liberals would be well advised to read world history and the Bible for a change instead of Liberal propaganda.


67 posted on 09/09/2016 2:29:18 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: C19fan

An ode DeGioia.


68 posted on 09/09/2016 2:29:51 PM PDT by moovova (If you won't stand for the National Anthem, you'll kneel for anything.)
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To: Jumper
Offering people unqualified to attend college a college education might be problematic, no?

From the performance and capabilities of "educated" millennials I have observed, this is already happening.

69 posted on 09/09/2016 2:31:12 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: ExTexasRedhead
ExTexasRedhead :" Liberals would be well advised to read world history and the Bible for a change instead of Liberal propaganda."

That is why Common Core doesn't emphasize history
That way, the ignorant don't learn about their ancestors' struggles, or that the ancestors were captured and sold into slavery by other black tribes of Africa.

70 posted on 09/09/2016 2:35:52 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: C19fan

Why? Georgetown did nothing illegal at the time, and there is a little thing in our Constitution about “ex post facto” laws.


71 posted on 09/09/2016 2:36:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

Well that act of kindness came back to bite Georgetown’s do-gooders. Apparently, these “descendants” would rather have the cash than the education.


72 posted on 09/09/2016 2:55:09 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: C19fan

PO’d their ancestors were sold off?


73 posted on 09/09/2016 2:58:21 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Stosh

It would be a much better place if it were just shut down and given away - to these people or just about anybody except the Jesuits.


74 posted on 09/09/2016 3:05:32 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Boogieman

Not only did Georgetown do nothing illegal there is a good chance those slaves were bought by other blacks.

There were THOUSANDS of blacks who owned slaves. There were 3,000 in New Orleans alone. There were black slave breeders. They sold their own offspring.

And there were thousands of whites who never had a slave.

Let’s not forget the the man who took his indentured servant to court to have him made into a slave. He was black.


75 posted on 09/09/2016 3:07:31 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: C19fan

For American negroes, Barack Hussein Obama’s candidacy and presidency was and is ALL about reparations. Gotta bibsmedat befo he be gone!


76 posted on 09/09/2016 3:20:03 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: C19fan

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!


77 posted on 09/09/2016 3:36:20 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I’ve always wondered, what makes them so special?


78 posted on 09/09/2016 3:36:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I’ve always wondered, what makes them so special?


79 posted on 09/09/2016 3:36:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: FirstFlaBn
The first US census to have a separate line for each person was 1850, but slaves' names were not entered (there was a line for each one giving age, sex, and whether black or mulatto, but the space for the personal name was left blank), so genealogy for slave descendants is more difficult than for descendants of free persons. So it may be hard for someone who is a genuine descendant of one of the slaves sold by Georgetown to document the descent. So I wonder if Georgetown is going to allow flimsy evidence (like "family tradition") to qualify someone for money?

It worked for Fauxcahontas...

80 posted on 09/09/2016 3:40:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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