Thursday, December 22, 2016

Reparations?-----From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time

From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time - The College Fix:
"For five years, a secretive group that claims to represent Native American students at Columbia University has been steadily winning concessions from the administration.
Emboldened by those victories, it is making a demand that appears to have only been made once before by a Native American college group: reparations.
The controversial idea showed up on a list of demands given to the administration last month by the Columbia Native American Council, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The demand for reparations comes just weeks after the administration acquiesced to the council’s demands for a plaque lamenting the colonization of the land upon which the university sits..."

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