A group a the University of Chicago is demanding that the school pay reparations to students whose families suffered as a result of slavery, because of the school’s historical ties to politician Stephen Douglas.
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, or N’COBRA, held a “Rally for Reparations” on campus last Tuesday, according to The College Fix, demanding that administrators make amends for Douglas’s land grant, which he obtained using the profits from his “plantation.”
The students then took their cause to Chicago’s City Hall, where they held a press conference on the steps where they presented their official demands. N’COBRA was joined by several other progressive campus groups, including the Solidarity Committee for Graduate Students United, which seeks to overthrow the shackles of institutionalized academic labor.
“The University of Chicago is founded by slaveholders and the labor of enslaved people can actually be traced through the years,” said Guy Emerson Mount, one of the students involved. “The labor of enslaved people actually translates into buildings, endowments, and real hard material resources.”
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