Universities founded on slavery owe reparations as a direct moral obligation

Evidence

Then he said something that jolted me: “I think every single one of these universities needs to make reparations…. I don’t know how you get around that. I don’t know how you conduct research that says your very existence is rooted in a great crime, and you just shrug, and at best say, ‘I am sorry,’ and walk away,” he said. “I think you need to use the language of reparations. To use that word to say that something was done.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 627

Then he said something that jolted me: “I think every single one of these universities needs to make reparations…. I don’t know how you get around that. I don’t know how you conduct research that says your very existence is rooted in a great crime, and you just shrug, and at best say, ‘I am sorry,’ and walk away,” he said. “I think you need to use the language of reparations. To use that word to say that something was done.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 627

Categorization

• XREF: This coheres with the reparations-as-structural-debt framework the reader is tracking through Lanier’s litigation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 627