Not only do they hide the truth from blacks (We built this place?) but, when we look up, they're rubbing our nose in it:
...He and his brother were “commission merchants.” When the cargo was slaves, they arranged to sell them,...He was not alone in this practice. Many industrialists and merchants were involved in trading slaves, a common practice at the time. Eight US presidents owned slaves while they were in office.
Simply put, the wealth that Perkins acquired in part from the slave trade over 200 years ago helped to lay the financial foundation for our school. Universities such as Brown, Columbia, William & Mary, and others have similarly complex connections to slavery. At Perkins, it is our responsibility today to recognize this inhumane element of our treasured history, even as we cherish the abolitionism of Samuel and Julia Ward Howe.
At least it's one way we can say, in this pitiful country, there aren't more blacks in prison than in college,…
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