Excellent New York Times editorial here about my undergraduate alma mater, Georgetown University, and the 1838 sale of 272 slaves to Louisiana, which arguably kept the school afloat but betrayed everything Roman Catholics and Jesuits stand for -- what is to be done?
Scholarships for the descendants? A monument? How about a commitment to stop uncritical teaching and academic programs that have the force and effect of propagandizing for and coddling multinational corporations, which are our modern slavemasters?
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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