{"id":358989,"date":"2021-03-31T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=358989"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:00:57","slug":"brown-university-votes-for-reparations-to-atone-for-abolitionist-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brown-university-votes-for-reparations-to-atone-for-abolitionist-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Votes For Reparations to Atone For Abolitionist Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrown-university-votes-for-reparations-to-atone-for-abolitionist-founder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=358989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4772.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown University students voted on Monday in favor of reparations for descendants of slaves affiliated with the school\u2019s founders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students at the Ivy League school,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/396cfe4f12bbc7d48f3196139759a5d51d9a2d07?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rihs.org%2Fmssinv%2FMss313.htm&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=418771b2e3d42522\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">named after<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the anti-slavery merchant Nicholas Brown Jr.,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/a5d06bdf1bbc8b07d85ed12d4b354e330a1d729f?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Fnbcblk%2Fundergraduates-brown-vote-university-offer-reparations-n1262413&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=12c9d8c863a95a8a\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approved<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> two resolutions urging the school to <\/span>&#8220;identify the descendants of enslaved Africans who were entangled with and\/or afflicted by the University and Brown family and their associates.&#8221; The resolutions, one giving those identified priority admission and the other direct payments, were passed by overwhelming margins: 89 and 85 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/brown-university-votes-for-reparations-to-atone-for-abolitionist-founder\/\"><strong>Brown University Votes For Reparations to Atone For Abolitionist Founder<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/professors-call-for-transparency-in-colleges-ties-to-china\/\"><strong>Professors Call for Transparency in Colleges&#8217; Ties to China<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/charles-hill-rip\/\"><strong>Charles Hill, RIP<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown is the latest university to consider providing reparations. In 2019, Georgetown University<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/30\/us\/georgetown-slavery-reparations.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approved <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a plan to provide financial aid to students descended from slaves sold by the school approximately 200 years prior. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the Virginia Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary recently drew up <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5e096506c5728c661f375083\/t\/60513534cdb3a825f85396a5\/1615934772218\/%5BV2%5D+Descendants+of+Slavery+Resolution+%281%29.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for how to provide reparations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown University declined to comment about how proposed reparations money would affect the school\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $59,254 <a href=\"https:\/\/admission.brown.edu\/tuition-aid\/tuition-fees\">annual tuition<\/a>, but a spokesman told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that &#8220;the current work of Brown\u2019s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism will make recommendations on more Brown can do to address the legacy of slavery.&#8221; Georgetown originally planned on raising tuition to pay for reparations but ultimately<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/georgetown-university-announces-reparations-fund-benefit-descendants-slaves\/story?id=66642286\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decided<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;against it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan Allums, the opinion editor of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown Daily Herald<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Jason Carroll, the Undergraduate Council of Students president, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2021\/03\/23\/carroll-21-allums-21-case-reparations-brown-university\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">co-authored<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a piece for the paper endorsing the reparations plan. The pair wrote that &#8220;reparations are not an unfair advantage or a form of unfounded preferential treatment; they are a means to recompense the setbacks that descendants of slavery contend with in the 21st century.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campus-wide vote came after the Brown student government passed a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5e096506c5728c661f375083\/t\/60513534cdb3a825f85396a5\/1615934772218\/%5BV2%5D+Descendants+of+Slavery+Resolution+%281%29.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resolution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sponsored by Carroll, &#8220;calling upon Brown to attempt to identify and reparate the descendants of slaves entangled with the university.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sylvia Brown, a historian and descendent of the Rhode Island Brown family, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2020\/07\/05\/brown-university-racism-race-slavery-slave-trade-column\/3278609001\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">objects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the idea that the university was founded on slavery. The university\u2019s namesake, Brown Jr., opposed the slave trade and forbade captains of his ships from trafficking slaves. Brown also forbade the family-owned Providence Bank from lending to slave traders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cities and states across the country have begun implementing reparations plans. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Virginia House of Representatives passed a bill in February that would also require five public colleges in the state to identify the slaves who worked on their schools and offer full scholarships to descendants of those workers. Last week, Evanston, Ill., became the first city to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/evanston-s-reparations-plan-noble-start-complicated-process-experts-say-n1262096\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reparations in the form of direct payments to black residents. President Joe Biden&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-study-reparations-congress-e3c045ece4d0e0eae393a18a09a4a37e\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">supports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> studying a national reparations program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, Rhode Island changed its official name, the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, to distance itself from the legacy of slavery. Governor Dan McKee (D.) was lieutenant governor at the time, and he endorsed the proposal to rename the state to merely the State of Rhode Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McKee\u2019s office did not respond to the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free Beacon\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> request for comment about whether the state will facilitate Brown\u2019s efforts to provide reparations.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown University students voted on Monday in favor of reparations for descendants of slaves affiliated with the school\u2019s founders. 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