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Georgetown: Pay Reparations

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This story about how Georgetown University sold a bunch of slaves to pay off its debts in 1838 is pretty interesting. And it’s great that Georgetown students are forcing the administration to deal with the school’s past. I do have one caution though, which is that the skilled PR people employed by big universities are adept at turning nasty history into an opportunity to make the university look good today, as has happened at Brown in the decade since that school embraced its deep relationship with slavery. There is one thing that Georgetown can do to make up for some of its historical crimes: tap into that $1.5 billion endowment and pay reparations to the descendants. To me, that’s a sign of an institution serious about making some sort of amends and not just seeking to make itself look good in 2016 through some conferences and a statue and a lot of press releases about it all. Reparations would show seriousness and actual leadership, especially for the precedent it would set for other slaver institutions. Which is why it almost certainly won’t happen.

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