A new report detailed claims of several African American families who argue the Universities of Alabama and Georgia owe them for seizing their land in the past.
Reparations calls have yet to grow major traction in the U.S. Even California state Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford has advised African American state residents not to get their hopes up on massive individuals reparations payments.
The paper then detailed how multiple families were bought out of land in a neighborhood called Linnentown, near the University of Georgia in the 1960s. The school has since acknowledged these families were underpaid for the land. A 4th-generation descendant of the original Black landowners, Hattie Thomas Whitehead, has"formed a group to demand redress from the county and the university," the outlet stated, adding,"They asked for $5 million in reparations — split between Athens-Clarke County and the college — along with memorial markers and the renaming of a building on the campus."
Greg Trevor, a spokesman for the University of Georgia, claimed compensation would be decided by the Board of Regents of Georgia’s University System, though he told the Times that the school has"met with Linnentown descendants and had offered to include the story of Linnentown in an oral history project maintained by University of Georgia Libraries." Fox News Digital reached out to both universities on Thursday for comment on the Times' report.
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