Princeton Seminary students are asking for reparations for school’s role in slavery

Buildings at the Princeton Theological Seminary. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Sarah Pulliam Bailey Reporter covering religion Email Bio Follow March 22 at 6:00 AM Princeton Theological Seminary last year released a report describing its founders’ and early faculty’s ties to slavery. Now, some of its students want the school to take it a step further and provide reparations for its role in the slave trade.

The idea of reparations was popularized by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 cover story in the Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations.” It has resurfaced in recent months as an issue in the 2020 presidential race, finding support among several candidates, including Sens. Kamala D. Harris , Elizabeth Warren and former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro.

Other schools have launched projects to make public their historic ties to slavery, and some have called for financial restitution. Princeton University, which is separate from the seminary, unveiled a project on slavery in 2017. The Association of Black Seminarians, the group of students forming a petition, are calling for full tuition grants for all African American students and student loan forgiveness for African American alumni annually. The association also suggests 10 grants for Liberian students, citing the report’s disclosure of the seminary’s support for the colonization project in Africa, where slaves were returned to Liberia.

Stewart said 90 percent of students receive some form of financial aid, and most of those students have 80-100 percent of their tuition covered. The school’s endowment is valued at about $1 billion, she said.

Why stop there? Princeton is named after Prince William of Orange whose fortune came from the slave trade. The whole town needs to pay 🙄🙄

White people weren't the first race to enslavr others, but there were the first to end theirs.

They need to make reparations to their parents for wasting their tuition.

And they were slaves?... just asking.

YEAH GIVE THEM FREE MONEY THEIR FAMILIES ARE USE TO IT.

STOOOOOOOP!

Tax on longevity

Great, reap what you sowed Princeton

😂😂😂😂😂 More proof that idiots attend ivy league schools too. 😂😂😂😂😂

The best form of reparations w/b equal and open access to all institutions. Forget $$...equal and open access can change your life for generations.

Best laugh I’ve heard all day

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