Georgetown to offer admission preference to descendants of slaves (legal, lawyers, private school)
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I have no issue creating equality where none exists, so I don't think anything needs to be reconciled.
I do see the difference. The difference, as I see it, is the alumi descendants are receiving a benefit that is unearned. The descendants of slaves are also now receiving that same benefit, but in this case the benefit is being offered to descendants of the slaves that were harmed by the University. In other words, the University harmed people and now is attempting to make amends for the University's injustice.
Now, if you want to argue that slavery never harmed the slaves or their descendants you may, but that is a topic for a new thread and not a position I agree with.
Yeah, 200 years ago. When does the statute of limitations on this kind of thing run out?
But anyway, this is all about some white liberals making themselves feel real good about themselves, as always. Or maybe a c.y.a. measure in case the diversity witchhunters come after them some day. Nothing more, nothing less.
I have no issue creating equality where none exists, so I don't think anything needs to be reconciled.
I do see the difference. The difference, as I see it, is the alumi descendants are receiving a benefit that is unearned. The descendants of slaves are also now receiving that same benefit, but in this case the benefit is being offered to descendants of the slaves that were harmed by the University. In other words, the University harmed people and now is attempting to make amends for the University's injustice.
Now, if you want to argue that slavery never harmed the slaves or their descendants you may, but that is a topic for a new thread and not a position I agree with.
You misrepresented what I wrote, I never said slaves were not harmed nor did I want to argue that point so stash that away where you store other nonsense okay? Nice try but this isn't amatuer hour.
If the Alumni descendants get an unearned benefit and the descendants of slaves get the same benefit (your words, go back and read them) then how can you say its for harm done?
Is not the harm being paid for and thus exchanged for a monetary equivalent? Your logic says the harm earned the benefit which is then given to the descendent. In the case of the Alumni, here was no harm as you agreed yet you say they are the same.That is the result of what you said.
By the way, how can a University be held responsible for an injustice since it is just a building(s). Are not the people the ones responsible and are they not dead and few actually related to those now working there?
You advocate people who had nothing to do with slavery providing a benefit to people who were never slaves using a means that takes from others associated with neither?
Feel free. Nearly all of us are descended from slaves, but Georgetown is only offering preferential treatment to slaves that they owned, sold, or otherwise have a tie to the University.
Uh; would that count for a blond hair. blue eyed pasty skin white girl with 1 DIRECT ancestor slave that was owned by Georgetown U 200 years back or; does such a preference deal go only for people with skin darker than a paper bag?
My mother-in-law grew up in an orphanage in SC. Her distant ancestors owned slaves in Virginia and the Carolinas. Clearly no benefits from slavery accrued to her. Had that occurred her **** poor relatives might have been able to take her in. I have told my wife and kids that this slaveholder status in their ancestry is not anything to be ashamed of or proud of. It is what it is and it was not anything they had anything to do with nor anything they benefited from. It is just an historical fact is all.
If Georgetown feels they need to atone for their history, have at it. If their alumni choose to fund it or not fund it, that's their choice too.
If only had that been thought of in the mid 19th century.
It was thought of, its just that on the continent where slaves came from, some could outrun their African captors and some could not. They all had the same running start though.
When you get right down to it, somewhere at the start, there was one African capturing and selling another and yet to this day, not one single effort has been made to get the descendents of those people to atone for what they did.
Slavery did not start in this country, it started in Africa. It still goes on in Africa.
But African Americans could care less what happens in the country that bears the same name as the first name in their claimed culture.
There's always a big todo about drug users and drug dealers. Its not the drug user's fault they use drugs, its the drug dealers fault. Uh huh.
Then lets go after the slave sellers, where it first started, not the slave users. Slave users were just addicted to free labor and what have you. It isn't their fault, it's the original slave sellers fault and most of them were not white Americans. They might have been Africans or Europeans but they weren't mostly White Americans.
Everyone after the first captor was a re-seller, like the dealer on the corner, not the first hand on the drugs.
I support 100% going after those Afrucan countries that allowed their people to sell other people to White re-sellers. Lets start with that and see hiw things go, then we can think about the users and in the spirit of enlihhtenment, consider rehabilitation, not other things like making them pay for stuff.
Would you want the decedents of such and such honorarily given the opportunity to be your heart surgeon? How about your brother in law working on the brakes of you RV on your mountain trip? "Ladies and gentlemen, your pilot had unfairly treated ancestors and was fast tracked into the pilot program. Please enjoy your flight".
Nope.
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I don't know, but I do an awful lot of things based upon the selection process. I don't even buy peaches unless I pick them myself on merit. Why would I think anyone from this university was any good at anything but an identity?
Personally I don't put a lot of stock in "elite institutions" in the first place.
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