Georgetown University President Rejects Demands about Slavery Reparations, Calls Race ‘a Construct’ Created in America
Georgetown University didn’t bow down to the PC police? Wow:
Speaking at Georgetown’s colloquium on racial justice, university president John DeGioia addressed news that his school would provide special accommodations for the ancestors of slaves who were owned by former presidents.
Thursday’s conversation was the culmination of a year-long effort to atone for Georgetown’s ancient ties to slavery, starting with the creation of a “Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation” convened back in 2015, which released its final report Thursday morning…
“Race is a construct,” he asserted later in the address. “It was constructed in America.”