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Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations

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Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News

The student-led proposal aims to atone for the Jesuit-organized sale of 272 slaves in 1838. Fees would go toward projects in underprivileged communities where some 4,000 descendants live, including Maringouin, Louisiana.
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This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
 
Master Debator said:
Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News



This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
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Define repairations.

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Master Debator said:
Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News



This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
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Truly great news - thank you for sharing! :)
 
Hello?! You out there? If you won't define reparations then how do you expect to discuss it?

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Master Debator said:
Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News



This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
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Some of my ancestors on my father's side were killed in coal mines. They were Scottish, but were treated as Irish. My mother's side was Jewish, and some of those ancestors died in Hitler's death camps. Reparations? Sure, I'll take them. What? I'm not eligible? Now why is that?
 
Master Debator said:
Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News



This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
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The debt can only be paid by the people that did the injury.
Forcing people who did not do injury to pay for something is technically illegal in this country.

Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program

those decendents are not slaves though. they suffered no injury of slavery to be awarded anything.
 
danarhea said:
Some of my ancestors on my father's side were killed in coal mines. They were Scottish, but were treated as Irish. My mother's side was Jewish, and some of those ancestors died in Hitler's death camps. Reparations? Sure, I'll take them. What? I'm not eligible? Now why is that?
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Why do you say you're not eligible?

Why is that?

Knock yourself out with my support.

:)
 
danarhea said:
Some of my ancestors on my father's side were killed in coal mines. They were Scottish, but were treated as Irish. My mother's side was Jewish, and some of those ancestors died in Hitler's death camps. Reparations? Sure, I'll take them. What? I'm not eligible? Now why is that?
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Why wouldn't you be eligible for reparations for race slavery?
 
ludin said:
The debt can only be paid by the people that did the injury.
Forcing people who did not do injury to pay for something is technically illegal in this country.

Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program

those decendents are not slaves though. they suffered no injury of slavery to be awarded anything.
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Who is forcing anyone to pay anything?

Why are so many of the people who oppose reparations so quick to cast themselves as victims of some imaginary demand for payment?

Weird...
 
Master Debator said:
Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News



This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
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They can't even pay their student loans, but they want the rest of us to pay out trillions for something none of us did.
 
Master Debator said:
Georgetown undergrads back fee to fund slavery reparations - CBS News



This is a non binding resolution by the student body but another positive story that pushes the conversation forward and creates a national discussion and if we do that we win. Its going to become increasingly difficult for the institutions, companies, and our government to deny there is a financial debt owed to these decendents. Coincidently they've identified over 4,000 decendents from the sale of 272 slaves on 1838, some of whom attend the school now under their legacy program. I guess recent claims from some posters about it being nearly impossible to identify decendents of slaves were slightly exaggerated. Who knew...
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I could see reparations to those who were slaves and perhaps their sons and daughters. 150 years or more after the fact when there isn't a single person alive who was a slave or an immediate decedent of a slave. No one alive today is responsible for what happened 150 plus years ago. I more or less look on this as an effort to extort free money from those who didn't have a thing to do with slavery for those who weren't slaves or their immediate decedents.

The whole idea is asinine. Reparations will do nothing at all to solve this countries racial problem. It nothing more than a feel good idea probably from those whites whose ancestors hadn't even come to this country yet when slavery ended in 1865.

If we are thinking about giving reparations to what, 7th generation of those who were slaves. Then we should give the 7th generation of those who fought for the Union to free the slaves some cash also. Fair is fair.
 
danarhea said:
Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for a lifetime. :mrgreen:
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I believe that's what they call a thread win.
 
3leftsdoo said:
Who is forcing anyone to pay anything?

Why are so many of the people who oppose reparations so quick to cast themselves as victims of some imaginary demand for payment?

Weird...
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Define it!

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j-mac said:
I want your thoughts....not some vague Google links....could it be that you don't know either?

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What are your thoughts?

Let's start there.
 
Deuce said:
Why wouldn't you be eligible for reparations for race slavery?
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You answer that. The Irish were held as slaves in the coal mines, and were forced to do the most dangerous work, which killed many of them.
 
American said:
They can't even pay their student loans, but they want the rest of us to pay out trillions for something none of us did.
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"They" can't?

"They" do?

Weird...

But yeah, college should be free.
 
Perotista said:
I could see reparations to those who were slaves and perhaps their sons and daughters. 150 years or more after the fact when there isn't a single person alive who was a slave or an immediate decedent of a slave. No one alive today is responsible for what happened 150 plus years ago. I more or less look on this as an effort to extort free money from those who didn't have a thing to do with slavery for those who weren't slaves or their immediate decedents.

The whole idea is asinine. Reparations will do nothing at all to solve this countries racial problem. It nothing more than a feel good idea probably from those whites whose ancestors hadn't even come to this country yet when slavery ended in 1865.

If we are thinking about giving reparations to what, 7th generation of those who were slaves. Then we should give the 7th generation of those who fought for the Union to free the slaves some cash also. Fair is fair.
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Weird that there's so much opposition to something so fair and moral.

But some of the naysayers on this also oppose socialized medicine, so maybe it's the same bizarre mindset.

The very real and devastating legacy of slavery?

Meh. :roll:

Some imaginary injury to white people?

End of the world!!!!! :bomb:
 
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