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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1382
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 09:01 pm: | 
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Brown U's President Ruth Simmons, that is. Some recent coverage of the recently released report detailing the institution's links to slavery:
An Inside Higher Ed piece (w/a pdf link to the actual report--it is looong, but worth a glance):
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/19/brown
This is how a blackprof.com piece (http://www.blackprof.com/archives/2006/10/ruth_simons_and_brown_universi.html) about it begins:
“See what happens when you put the great-granddaughter of a slave in charge?!” I’m sure this thought was running through the minds of some Brown alums when the Slavery and Justice Steering Committee – a group comprised of faculty, students, and administrators -- commissioned by Brown University President Ruth Simmons, the first African American (male or female) to serve at the helm of an Ivy League institution, issued its report yesterday.
Now the question is: What will the university do in response? Will other institutions follow their lead and expose their own dirty, slave-labor and -profit linens? |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6744
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 11:34 am: |
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Yvettep,
I find this to be a worthy exercise. And I hope that Brown inspire many other +200 year old American institutions to follow suit.
But whenever this kind of thing is presented, I often wonder the following: WHAT major American institution (save, perhaps, the Quakers) that was created antebellum can HONESTLY claim to have reaped no benefit and advantage via Slavery? |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2891
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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You got 'em ABM:
The whole damn country benefitted from all those years of free labor--part of the guilt that is eating it up. |
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