Re: Sept. 9 Courtland Milloy column.
Courtland Milloy rebuked Georgetown University for its choice of a way to make amends for having sold 272 slaves long ago. He referenced student activists’ calls for reparations to those slaves’ descendants, perhaps by an endowment to provide scholarships. This seems to me to be a part of the current climate of entitlement, as if someone should pay for every hardship or setback. Looking backwards to “repay” any of us for the suffering of our ancestors seems futile to me. Most of our ancestors, regardless of ethnic identity, came here to escape oppression. All our efforts today should be spent toward gaining equal opportunity for all in our current population. Wherever we can, let us all work for the removal of social and economic barriers. We should support the legal rejection, even punishment, of any practices of racial or religious discrimination. Let us educate towards the appreciation of differences. Let’s enhance and increase our freedoms for each of us to achieve whatever possibilities lie within each one of us.
Kit Anderson, Colorado Springs
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