Why Protesting Georgetown Students Want Their School to Pay a Novel Form of Reparations

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Why Protesting Georgetown Students Want Their School to Pay a Novel Form of Reparations
At the University of Missouri, students have ousted their president over his mishandling of racist incidents. At Yale, protests ignited over an email that
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Pat Dillon Yale's early 'super' tax exemption is tied to a donation by George Berkeley of income from his plantation in Newport RI which was iirc slave labor so it goes back to the beginning of Yale. Calhoun was an outsider / son of immigrant admitted on a Berkeley scholarship by Timothy Dwight (I need to check that but think so). Georgetown is a weird one. the Jesuits owned slaves in Maryland, but otoh they educated slaves and freedmen: Patrick Healy, the pres who made Georgetown what it is today was son of a slave and an Irish immigrant in Georgia banned from legal marriage; they sent their kids to Holy Cross in Mass to be educated because education was banned elsewhere. They all did well, and only one of 7 or 8 kids denied his African lineage - that one went to Alaska.
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