Op-Ed: Georgetown University’s road to slavery reparations was paved with good intentions, leading to a can of worms

Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention. Since the student newspaper jolted the campus in 2014 with accounts of Jesuit priests engineering the…

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Barking Up The Wrong Tree? California Reparations Report Wants More Trees Planted in ‘Black Neighborhoods’ for ‘Shade Equity’

The state of California, which has never been a slave state, has put together a laundry list of grievances that it traces back to “our country’s racist foundations,” as part of a report assembled…

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