If you needed any more evidence that higher education has been compromised by leftist ideology, here’s your sign.
According to a Fox News report, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hosted a reparations committee meeting in October. During the meeting, two professors and one researcher from the university advocated for reparations.
“The first problem, an analysis of Black workers’ lived experiences in Illinois, reveals two dominant relationships. They shared with White workers labor exploitation. That is the hallmark of capitalism: theft,” said Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, a history professor at the school.
Cha-Jua also said that “the most frequent lived experience of the African American people has been as enslaved persons, sharecroppers, farm laborers, domestic servants, washerwomen, wageworkers, non-industrial or industrial workers, menial laborers in the public sector and as contemporary sub-proletarians laboring in part-time, temporary, low-wage un-unionized and benefit-less jobs.”
“It’s not about individual reparations,” the professor explained. “We constitute a nationality that simply does not have a state. But we are a nation of people, so what we want to talk about is collective reparations. Reparations to communities and reparations to the African American people, as well as individual payments.”
“Cha-Jua, fellow professor LaKisha David and doctoral student Naomi Simmons-Thorne spoke at the October meeting held by the African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission,” reported Fox, which noted that the committee is “state-supported.”
“The commission was established by the Illinois General Assembly, in part to study reparations and ‘discuss the implementation of measures to ensure equity, equality, and parity for African American descendants of slavery.’ The commission reports its findings to the general assembly,” the outlet added.
Simmons-Thorne echoed similar sentiments, discussing “three species of justice,” including “rectificatory justice.”
“It is this type of justice that is at the heart of the reparations movement, but it is also the type of justice that has been least thought about in the history of philosophy,” she explained. “I often hear this, that reparations is just [Critical Race Theory] or DEI, when ancient philosophers in the fourth century BCE were talking about this kind of justice. So this is not just a modern thing, or some kind of modern excess.”
David works as an “assistant professor in UIUC’s anthropology department,” as well as the head of The African Kinship Reunion (TAKiR), an organization that helps “African American families in Illinois trace their ancestry and connect with their roots.”
“This is really speaking from some recent things that happened, and you know, I wonder when we think of how people think of us as Black people in this country, at what point will it become obvious that we respond to our environment, you know, just like any other human responds to the environment. So we have the right to respond to trauma and things like that as if we are traumatized. That is a human condition,” she said.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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