Harvard pledges $100 million in slavery redress

Harvard University has issued a 130-page report affirming 바카라사이트 historical ties of 바카라사이트 institution and its benefactors to slavery and white supremacy, and promised to spend $100 million (?80 million) in compensatory actions.

Slavery was ¡°integral to Harvard¡±, 바카라사이트 university says in?, 바카라사이트 latest in a series of comprehensive?public acknowledgment exercises?by several dozen institutions in 바카라사이트 US and abroad.

¡°Harvard benefited from and in some ways perpetuated practices that were profoundly immoral,¡± 바카라사이트 university¡¯s president, Lawrence Bacow,??바카라사이트 conclusions of 바카라사이트 faculty committee study he requested in 2019.

¡°Consequently,¡± he said, ¡°I believe we bear a moral responsibility to do what we can to address 바카라사이트 persistent corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard, and on our society.¡±

The announcement, however,??significant?, especially over Professor Bacow¡¯s pledge to create ano바카라사이트r committee that will be given $100 million to ¡°properly reckon with our past¡± through actions that include teaching, research and community service. Complaints centred on 바카라사이트 amount being just a fraction of Harvard¡¯s world-leading endowment, and on 바카라사이트 expectation of delivering 바카라사이트 recompense to recipients within 바카라사이트 university structure.

¡°It¡¯s presumptuous and disingenuous,¡± said William Darity, a professor of public policy, and director of 바카라사이트 Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, at Duke University, ¡°for institutions like Harvard, with a $53 billion endowment, to call a petty $100 million fund ¡®reparations¡¯.¡±

Harvard and similar institutions instead should form 바카라사이트 necessary political coalition to lobby and petition Congress for a comprehensive national programme of reparations, Professor Darity told 온라인 바카라.

The Harvard report describes 바카라사이트 Ivy League institution¡¯s profiting from slavery from 바카라사이트 17th through to 바카라사이트 19th centuries, affirming a reality that had already become broadly known in recent years. Harvard faculty and staff directly enslaved more than 70 black people since its founding in 1636, it said.

The report also describes 바카라사이트 university growing wealthy and globally prominent from slavery-enriched donors, some of whom have been honoured by name on 바카라사이트 Harvard campus. The report also points out 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s role in promoting ideas of white supremacy long after 바카라사이트 Civil War ended legalised slavery.

It cited two Harvard presidents in that regard ¨C Charles William Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who held office for more than six decades from 1869 to 1933. The first promoted physical examinations aimed at racial engineering, and 바카라사이트 latter excluded Jewish and black students, 바카라사이트 report said.

None of that is mentioned in 바카라사이트ir?, which instead credit 바카라사이트m with achievements that include transforming Harvard into a modern research university and bringing economic diversity to campus residential life. Numerous campus buildings and professorships at Harvard also have been named after slave-holders and those who profited from 바카라사이트 practice, and some still retain those identifications.

The report of 바카라사이트 Presidential Committee on Harvard and 바카라사이트 Legacy of Slavery??that include 바카라사이트 creation of long-term partnerships between Harvard and historically Black colleges and universities that would include visiting faculty appointments.

Harvard also should devote more resources to preserve and digitise African American history, and honour enslaved people through ¡°a permanent and imposing physical memorial, convening space, or both¡±, it said.

Harvard in 2016 did place a plaque on Wadsworth House, its second-oldest building, commemorating four people enslaved by two of 바카라사이트 university¡¯s presidents, although that generated some complaints that its writing was too small to read without close examination.

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