Georgetown students vote overwhelming in favor of $27 fee for slavery reparations originally appeared on abcnews.go.comBy almost a 2-to-1 margin, students approved the measure, which still must be approved by the university to go into effect.
"The Jesuits sold my family and 40 other families so you could be here," sophomore Melisande Short-Colomb, a Georgetown student, said during a town hall to discuss the issue last week. "No one in this room was here in 1838 when this happened," Short-Colomb said. Still, she thinks the funds could help make amends for the university's slave-holding past.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson supports a reparations measure, originally introduced by Rep. John Conyers and reintroduced in every Congress since 1989, aimed at creating a commission to"make recommendations concerning any form of apology and compensation to begin the long delayed process of atonement for slavery."The NAACP began collectively backing it in 2014. That year, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an essay supporting reparations that garnered national attention.
Other candidates supporting some form of reparations include Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who said that as president he'd support a reparations bill, which he sees as an issue of"inter-generational injustice."California Sen.
'Mommy and daddy, can I have $27 pleeeeease?'
Will the Nicolas Augustin Metoyer family have to pay reparations?
Lol what?
already good at spending other people's (mom/dad) money
Hopefully the black students aren't required to pay it.
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