I think the biggest challenge is that we are dealing with a kind of butterfly effect justification. I suppose it is true that every aspect of our current societ

I think the biggest challenge is that we are dealing with a kind of butterfly effect justification. I suppose it is true that every aspect of our current society and economy is descended in some way to slavery. Everything is necessarily interconnected and a product of historical events and you can always draw a connection if that is your goal. The challenge is, of course, trying to figure out just how much of an impact. What I was getting at with my earlier post is that it seems like the majority of Harvard’s wealth is recent rather than longstanding. And, if someone is looking at this through the lens of historical wealth that was gained directly from the activity of slavery, $100 million seems to be reasonable rather than not nearly enough of the total $50+ billion.