After Hours: The Jesuits and Reparations

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News Commentary, News

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Catholic Jesuits are already paying reparations to the descendants of slaves who helped build Georgetown University. It's part of our larger look at the reparations movement on this Sunday's episode of Full Measure. Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review, subscribe and share with your friends! Support independent journalism by visiting the new Sharyl Attkisson store. Order “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop! Visit JustTheNews.com, SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting. Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sharylattkisson/supportSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:30.0	Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.
0:40.0	Today, we hear from a lead official with the Catholic Jesuits about why they've started paying reparations
0:46.2	to descendants of slaves that the Jesuits once purchased to build what's now Georgetown University.
0:52.4	reparations such an interesting topic. One definition I read of reparations reads,
1:04.0	the making of a mens for a wrong one has done by paying money or otherwise helping those
1:09.9	who've been wronged. But this controversy has to do with someone being asked to pay for wrongs
1:16.3	they never committed or were even associated with, but accepting blame for those they never met.
1:22.6	Paying those who never met the ones who were wronged. I think this is a perfect full measure
1:27.7	story. I always try to set out with an idea to find out about something and then research it,
1:34.5	listen to what people have to say. Rather than doing I think what so many reporters do today,
1:40.2	they come up with an idea on the front end of what they want a story to say. They sort of fill
1:45.5	in the blanks and then try to convince you. Well, that's not what we do. And if you watch full
1:51.4	measure, you know that this story that you'll see on Sunday will give you a lot of different
1:55.9	viewpoints and you will make up your own mind what you think afterwards. That'll be Sunday January
2:02.4	30th. An in-depth look at the topic which even has black civil rights activists on opposing sides.
2:10.6	You'll hear from a slave descendant named Melisanda Short-Colome. You'll hear from a man named Robert
2:17.2	Woodson who opposes reparations. But right now in this podcast, you're going to hear from a Catholic
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