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The Carroll News
Editorial
17
Sept. 15, 2016
Pan-Jesuit solutions
The Rev. Robert L. Niehoff, S.J. recently issued a statement to the John Carroll University community concerning the history of our namesake and the institution that he founded, Georgetown University. The email in question gave light to their lesser-known and sinister history and announced the founding of a JCU Working Group dedicated toward the study and awareness of the Jesuit’s role in slavery. Father Niehoff ’s message follows a historical revelation, that Georgetown University sold 272 slaves in an effort to generate University revenue in 1838. The story was uncovered by Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation. The Working Group was established to research Georgetown’s slaveholding past and work towards finding a way for the institution to make the necessary ammends to the best of its ability. Accordingly, the Working Group and Georgetown University officials have determined that the descendants of the aforementioned 272 slaves will now be given the same special consideration for Other Jesuit educational institutions have also decided to designate a team to study the broader role that the Jesuits played in slavery in the American past, including John Carroll University. The Carroll News commends the efforts made by Georgetown University and the broader Jesuit community in their mission to increase transparency regarding their past and to reconcile the situation as it is possible in 2016. The Jesuits are a community that take a lot of pride in their commitment to social justice and to the fraternal ties among their separate institutions. Father Niehoff ’s email announcement about the JCU research initiative and the broader dialogue are a wonderful start, but it is the opinion of this paper that our institution and others could make
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admission that is given to descendants of Georgetown alumni.
You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
– Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a fundraiser last Friday.
a stand of solidarity with Georgetown University and offer similar considerations to the descendents of those affected by Jesuit participation in slavery.
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