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    CBS News‏Verified account @CBSNews 1 Sep 2016

    .@Georgetown University to give slave descendants priority in admission http://cbsn.ws/2bF13PL pic.twitter.com/TNfHrnZwuS

    10:00 AM - 1 Sep 2016
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      1. Trey‏ @streetballin 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @CBSNews @Georgetown

        racist discrimination

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      1. Go Coffee Energy‏ @GoCoffeeEnergy 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @CBSNews @cbschicago @Georgetown

        Does that include the Irish slaves? 300,000 of them were sentenced to slavery and sent to the Americas?

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      1. piano807‏ @piano807 1 Sep 2016
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        Thank you, 0bama-I-hate-America syndrome.

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      1. John P Layden‏ @Jlayden15John 1 Sep 2016
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        how can they prove they were related to Toby or whatever names they had back then? The same for American Indians too.

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      1. Bullwif‏ @Rudolf1959 1 Sep 2016
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        thats not fair for others

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      1. For God and Country‏ @sportsfanNEA 1 Sep 2016
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        I'm a Native American Indian descendant, get the hell off my LAND!!

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      2. John S.‏ @CelticCross52 1 Sep 2016
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        @WBBMNewsradio @Georgetown oh, well, another school NOT to hire from...

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      4. John S.‏ @CelticCross52 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @SocalDavid23 @CBSNews and

        I did...I stand by my comment...

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      2. (⌐■_■)‏ @victor_de_ 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @CBSNews @Georgetown

        why not a step further and charge the african tribes who caputured them to sell on the docks?

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      3. Felt from St. Pete‏ @BelayFelton 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @victor_de_ @CBSNews @Georgetown

        what did those tribes gain. Trinkets and rum while africa was pillaged for 500 yrs.

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      4. (⌐■_■)‏ @victor_de_ 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @BelayFelton @CBSNews @Georgetown

        the facts remain. they did it to their own people

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      2. Harry Godwyn‏ @harrygod 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @CBSNews @Georgetown

        I hope being a Catholic university it well extend this to descendants of victims of the Inquisition.

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      3. Felt from St. Pete‏ @BelayFelton 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @harrygod @CBSNews @Georgetown

        didn't occur in America

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      1. Dee‏ @DeeviusDee 1 Sep 2016
        Replying to @CBSNews @Georgetown

        clearly no one on this thread read the fucking article & felt the need to comment on something that doesn't impact them

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      1. Gunnar Marcus‏ @GunnarMarcus 1 Sep 2016
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        That will fix everything. As effective as punishing the sins of the father by disadvantaging poor non slave owners.

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