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| Today we have a column from Melisande Short-Colomb, a woman who went to Georgetown University at 63. She is a descendant of enslaved people who were sold to support the University. We also have a column on Astroworld safety and more. |
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| By Melisande Short-Colomb |
| I went to Georgetown for more than a degree. |
| When I made the commitment to apply, I made a bigger commitment to my ancestors – enslaved people who had been sold to support the school, but who had not been well represented on the campus or in the culture since. It was more important for me to get them full inclusion in the memory and history of the institution they founded. |
| In 2016, when Georgetown President John DeGioia cleared the way for admissions consideration for descendants of those who were enslaved, I was living in Louisiana, where my family had been shipped more than 150 years ago during that sale. From my home in New Orleans, my first thought was that I needed to find out whether the university was ready to live up to that promise. |
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| By Tom Palaima and Al Martinich |
| "I've never seen one history book that tells how anybody feels," Bob Dylan said in 1963. |
| This Veterans Day, we are not involved in a major war for the first time in two decades. We should give thanks. But we also should take care to internalize what veterans who live and work among us have gone through and continue to go through. |
| It's unfortunate that we have not done what Iraq War veteran Phil Klay urged us to do seven years ago – to use our experiences of suffering to feel what service members have experienced. |
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| By Brian Higgins |
| Many of the reported 50,000 people who attended the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night were simply looking to return to a pre-COVID-19 world where they could spend a few hours being entertained. |
| It has been reported by several news outlets thatmany attendees went home unaware of the tragedy at NRG Park, where eight concertgoers died and several hundred were injured, not learning about it until they arrived home or saw the news the next day. |
| As is common after any tragedy, the question is, "How can this happen?", and more important, "How can this be avoided in the future?" |
| Those answers already exist. |
Columns you might've missed |
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Columns on qualified immunity |
| We are doing a series examining the issue of qualified immunity. For more on the series read here. |
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| This newsletter was compiled by Jaden Amos. |
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