272 Slaves Were Sold
to Save Georgetown.
What Does It Owe
Their Descendants?

In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.

I’d guess nothing is an answer that wouldn’t play well in certain quarters, but that would be my answer. First we are talking about an event that took place 176 years ago. It involved trade in a legal commodity. Without the slave trade there probably would not be as sizable black American presence as there is in America.  Africa had no seagoing tradition. Trade was limited so the opportunity for immigration was limited. Granted the trade was brutal and a cause of great upheaval to the black families.

Black families managed to survive that sorted history and by the late forties and fifties most black children were born into a two parent household. What black families couldn’t survive is the government largess of LBJ’s Great Society. Black two parent households are a thing of the past. Absentee fathers stay away because to be around would affect the bottom line as mama games the welfare system.  Consider the possibility that the first memory many black children will have is that of mama lying, cheating and stealing to get over on the government.

I’ve got an idea, let’s balance the books. The Heritage Foundation estimates that as of June 2014 the Great Society has cost American 22 trillion dollars. There is very little to show for it.  We will call the amount owed descendants of slaves 22 trillion dollars, adjusted for inflation and whatnot.  The American government will admit to being mean and nasty. American blacks will admit to having squandered damn near every opportunity that came their way for fifty years and that the Great Society was a Great failure.  A little simple book keeping and both debts cancel each other out.

Since we now have it on record that Great Society type social programs don’t work existing programs can be canceled and everybody can look forward to a productive next fifty years.

I’m game.