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I see someone trying to understand why universities that owned slaves and/or received funds directly tied to slavery (like Brown University whose donors/governing board were enriched by the slave trade) aren't held as accountable as plantation owners.   Why is it okay for people to aspire to attend these slavery-tainted institutions but not plantations?  Why hasn't the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond been torn down?  Not only was it built by slaves and the Capitol of the Confederacy, it was where all the reprehensible slavery and Jim Crow laws were passed.  That place is far more tainted than any plantation.

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So you support Georgetown's efforts at reparations? Generally slavery apologists want to excuse past actions because those people are dead and there's no chattel slavery any longer in the US[/quote]

I have no opinion on Georgetown's reparation efforts.  The disenfranchisement of African-Americans is shameful.  I don't know what the best way is to address the injustice and inequality so many experience - present or past.  I'm just trying to understand why it's okay to support universities founded and endowed by slave-profits but it's not okay to support historical plantations.  It seems that some on this thread are selective in their judgment and condemnation.  They think they're being righteous by condemning plantation events yet they ignore the fact these universities were founded upon slavery.  It's either ignorance or hypocrisy that leads them to give universities (and other institutions) a pass.  Perhaps, as you say, they're selective slavery apologists.

I'm not trying to be snarky (really).  I'm interested in a compelling argument as to why these universities are worthy of support and plantations are not.  I'll add, the venue fee for a plantation is a tiny fraction of the cost of tuition at one of these slave-founded universities.  Yet, these people are focusing on plantations.   SMH[/quote]

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