To the Editor:
Re “Georgetown Confronts Its Role in Nation’s Slave Trade” (front page, April 17):
Some Georgetown University professors, students and alumni are asking the university to compensate the descendants of slaves the university sold in 1838 to avoid bankruptcy.
Rather than singling out the blood relatives of those particular victims, Georgetown should recognize that the institution of slavery affected and continues to affect the entire African-American community.
Georgetown should instead set aside funds to reduce the tuition of all African-American students whose forebears were enslaved.
GEORGE SOROS
New York
The writer is the founder of the Open Society Foundations.
Note from KBJ: John Sullivan has some 'splainin' to do.
