Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations

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Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations
by Daniel Jativa
 | April 12, 2019 09:13 AM



Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move comes as reparations are increasingly being discussed on the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

The Georgetown University Student Association held the referendum this week, with students supporting the measure by a two-to-one margin. The fee would increase tuition at the nation's oldest Catholic university by nearly $28 per semester for every student. The money would go into a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves the Jesuits sold in 1838 to keep the deeply indebted university open.

The vote is not binding, however. University leadership will make the final decision on whether to implement a mandatory fee for reparations.

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The results of the referendum are as follows: 66.08% for yes (2541 votes), 33.92% for no (1304 votes). This means that the referendum passes.
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[kidd]

I would guess that less than 5% of Georgetown students pay their own tuition bills.

Perhaps mom and dad should get a vote.

Yes, once again socialists are spending other people's money.

[skeeter]

Mom & dad to Junior: thanks alot.

[Snarknado]

I'm kind of surprised it only got 2/3 of the vote, when you consider that $28 is only $1.55 a week and a tenth of a percent of the $27800 tuition for a semester. The encouraging thing is that many who wouldn't be paying it out of their own pockets must have voted no anyway.

Why not just set up a voluntary contribution program? Then the professors could relentlessly guilt their students into giving a lot more than $28, and the students could brag about each contribution on twitter. I guess that might not work though if they're already giving every spare nickel to Bernie Sanders...

[goatprairie]

I'm kind of surprised it only got 2/3 of the vote, when you consider that $28 is only $1.55 a week and a tenth of a percent of the $27800 tuition for a semester. The encouraging thing is that many who wouldn't be paying it out of their own pockets must have voted no anyway.

Why not just set up a voluntary contribution program? Then the professors could relentlessly guilt their students into giving a lot more than $28, and the students could brag about each contribution on twitter. I guess that might not work though if they're already giving every spare nickel to Bernie Sanders...

"Why not just set up a voluntary contribution program"

Why, indeed, don't all the nation's liberals get together and voluntarily give money to black people.
The total wealth of the country's liberals is surely in the trillions of dollars. Certainly, the Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerbergs of the U.S. could shell out many billions of dollars by themselves without having to go the tin cup begging route.

[Hoodat]

"Why not just set up a voluntary contribution program"

Because forcing someone to do so at the point of a gun is so much more satisfying to fascist Democrats.

[Idiot]

Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations
by Daniel Jativa
 | April 12, 2019 09:13 AM



Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move comes as reparations are increasingly being discussed on the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

The Georgetown University Student Association held the referendum this week, with students supporting the measure by a two-to-one margin. The fee would increase tuition at the nation's oldest Catholic university by nearly $28 per semester for every student. The money would go into a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves the Jesuits sold in 1838 to keep the deeply indebted university open.

The vote is not binding, however. University leadership will make the final decision on whether to implement a mandatory fee for reparations.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgetown-university-students-vote-to-increase-their-tuition-to-pay-slavery-reparations

Idiots!   

[kidd]

7463 students at Georgetown University
$28/semester/student
2 semester/year

For a total of $417,928 per year for reparations

from 1838 to 2019 is 181 years.
Lets call it 6 generations (30 years/generation)
Assume 3 children per generation.
Assume all of the 6th and 5th generations and half of the 4th generation are still alive,
Assume all of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generations are dead
3^6 + 3^5 + (3^4)/2 = 1012 living descendants from each Georgetown ex-slave. 272 slaves.

That makes 275,264 recipients of the funds.
That's $1.51 per year per descendant.

Truthfully, this is more of an insult.

"Joe, Georgetown sold your great-great-great-great grandfather into hard slavery. Have a cheeseburger, on us to ease our misplaced liberal white guilt. We'll do this again next year, because we are thoughtful little liberals!""

[verga]

"Why not just set up a voluntary contribution program"

Why, indeed, don't all the nation's liberals get together and voluntarily give money to black people.
The total wealth of the country's liberals is surely in the trillions of dollars. Certainly, the Bill Gates, Jeff Bezo's, Mark Zuckerburg's of the U.S. could shell out many billions of dollars by themselves without having to go the tin cup begging route.

See that is where you have it wrong, They want YOU to pay for their rich white guilt.

[mountaineer]

I hereby offer to clean out my bank account and pay all of the money to everyone I've held in involuntary servitude.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Georgetown University students vote to increase their tuition to pay slavery reparations
by Daniel Jativa
 | April 12, 2019 09:13 AM



Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move comes as reparations are increasingly being discussed on the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

The Georgetown University Student Association held the referendum this week, with students supporting the measure by a two-to-one margin. The fee would increase tuition at the nation's oldest Catholic university by nearly $28 per semester for every student. The money would go into a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves the Jesuits sold in 1838 to keep the deeply indebted university open.

The vote is not binding, however. University leadership will make the final decision on whether to implement a mandatory fee for reparations.

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/georgetown-university-students-vote-to-increase-their-tuition-to-pay-slavery-reparations

So who gets the money? Just black folks?

They will spend it on fried chicken and crack most likely.

[berdie]

I hereby offer to clean out my bank account and pay all of the money to everyone I've held in involuntary servitude.

Me too!!

I have never known a slave or known someone that had one.

Although...truthfully...this time if year it would be fun to have one...yard work, etc.  But I think it's cheaper to do it myself...or buy a robot.

[Hoodat]

Shouldn't those who first enslaved them and profited off their sale to slave traders be the ones who should pay reparations?