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2020-07-29 Home Front: Politix

Campus Activists Demand Free Tuition and Reparations

[Free Beacon] Tulane's Black Student Union presses administration to compensate the descendants of slaves who worked on campus grounds.

Tulane University activists are demanding that the school offer reparations to the descendants of slaves who worked on the plantation that became campus grounds nearly 200 years ago.

Before the school's establishment in 1834—created as a medical university in response to the cholera, yellow fever, and smallpox epidemics—the land was used as a plantation. The school's Black Student Union (BSU) asked administrators to identify the descendants of the enslaved people who once worked on the plantation and offer them full tuition and more, according to a list of demands posted online.

"We demand that Tulane allocates funding to track down the descendants of the enslaved people who labored at the Tulane plantation and offer them full tuition and room and board scholarships that include a living stipend each semester of attendance at Tulane," the post reads. "Tulane must first acknowledge the trauma it has inflicted on black community members. It is Tulane's responsibility to recognize their longstanding history of racism and take actionable steps to reconcile those practices."

The Black Student Union did not return a request for comment.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-29 03:19|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

Maak geen fok'n fout nie (Make no mistake), this is the desired outcome.

"When you control the land, you control the power."
~ Scott Snyder, Batman: The Night of the Owls

Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-29 03:23|| 2020-07-29 03:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Free is usually priced appropriately. It fair to say many degrees today are worth nothing. At this point it's about getting everyone in BigEd™ to work for free, then it'll work fine.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-29 08:41|| 2020-07-29 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn - I had The Bee; down $1 right off the bat.

Posted by Raj 2020-07-29 10:21|| 2020-07-29 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Was Tulane established on a plantation? There is scant information that it was. But if it was, so what? Exactly who would pay these reparations? Since Tulane is a private institution, these reparations, if paid, would have to be recovered through increased tuition. Seems like a really stupid, self-defeating idea.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-07-29 10:48|| 2020-07-29 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Shake shake shake... shake that shakedown

Posted by Lumpy Mussolini7603 2020-07-29 11:03|| 2020-07-29 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 In 1798, the area now known as the French Quarter was still inside the Spanish fortress wall (Spain controlled it from 1763-1803, the French prior). Some of my Mom's ancestors escaped to NO from France during the 1790's French festivities.

Area to the west (where Tulane is) was all swamp.

The French got the city back from the Spanish in 1803 and instituted slavery a few years later.

Go after the French Revolutionary National Assembly and Napoleon in particular.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-07-29 13:27|| 2020-07-29 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps they could transfer to an all black school? In Nigeria. Oh, but weren't those people involved in slave trading, too?

Posted by Bobby 2020-07-29 15:26|| 2020-07-29 15:26|| Front Page Top

#8 The university was closed from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. After reopening, it went through a period of financial challenges because of an extended agricultural depression in the South which affected the nation's economy. Paul Tulane, from New Jersey, owner of a prospering dry goods and clothing business, donated extensive real estate within New Orleans for the support of education. This donation led to the establishment of a Tulane Educational Fund (TEF), whose board of administrators sought to support the University of Louisiana instead of establishing a new university. In response, through the influence of former Confederate general Randall Lee Gibson, the Louisiana state legislature transferred control of the University of Louisiana to the administrators of the TEF in 1884.[1] This act created the Tulane University of Louisiana.[17] The university was privatized, and is one of only a few American universities to be converted from a state public institution to a private one.[18]-Wiki

Randall Lee Gibson's paternal great-grandfather was Gideon Gibson Jr., who was likely born in the colony of South Carolina in 1731. His great-great-grandfather, Gideon Gibson, was a free man of color who was married to a white woman, and had owned land and a few slaves in Virginia (likely where he was born) and North Carolina, before migrating with other settlers to South Carolina in the 1730s. The government was worried that he might provoke a slave revolt and the colonial governor had an interview with him. Learning about his life, the governor declared him a free man with all privileges, and granted him land.[2]--Wiki

Posted by JohnQC 2020-07-29 22:25|| 2020-07-29 22:25|| Front Page Top

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