Georgetown University student activists are pushing to create a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves, one that would use a student fee to send a message that historical wrongs will not be forgotten — and to prod administrators to move more quickly on what students call a fundamental moral question. A nonprofit organization led by a board of students and descendants would donate money to charitable causes directly benefiting descendants of the 19th-century sale of enslaved people. But students are anxious to see signs that the history will continue to inform the future of the university, she added. Two student government leaders wrote in the Hoya, a student newspaper, that students should not have to pay for the institution’s failures. “Georgetown University alone, not the student body, has the obligation to pay for its past transgressions,” Hayley Grande and Samuel Dubke wrote.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 23:45 UTC