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Building in which these people work. you work in a capital that was built for enslaved people. you are there enjoying the benefits of their labor. if you don't want to acknowledge our ties, as much as you don't want to work on the anacostia river. i'm being flip about that, but this is true. i was doing the research. as latest as 2017, we were pegging pensions to the last heir of a civil war veteran. we are at this very moment still paying pensions to the veterans of spanish-american war. long before i was alive and you were alive and we don't have a problem with that. >> one of the points tha...

That the university sold off 272 people to stay a float in 1838. those people ended up in louisiana on some of the worst plantations in the u.s. one of their descendants is a current student at georgetown. >> my ancestors were here until members of their families were sold in 1838. so my family and who i am as an american actually goes back 11 generations. >> milison is among a group of activists pushing to make the university the first in the country to pay reparations for slavery. an overwhelming majority of students voted to increase their own tuition by $27.20 a semester. that's 10 cents f...

Repair the sins of its past. >> georgetown is one of the most prestigious universities in the united states. it was founded by jesuits in 1789 on the backs of slave labor. the university owned plantations in maryland and even enslaved people on campus. but it wasn't until 2015 that a student researcher discovered that the university sold off 272 people to stay a float in 1838. those people ended up in louisiana on some of the worst plantations in the u.s. one of their descendants is a current student at georgetown. >> my ancestors were here until members of their families were sold in 1838. so...

Slavery. an overwhelming majority of students voted to increase their own tuition by $27.20 a semester. that's 10 cents for each of the people the university sold. the money will go to a louisiana community where many of the descendants live. a community that lacks basic services like a hospital and secondary school. >> we're not making a gift to these people. their, like, quality of life is directly ti lly tied to the act the university. even just geographically. being put in communities in louisiana and maryland, if you're put in a community that doesn't have a lot of social mobility and res...

I'm glad you clarified that because my point was in the absence of governmental action these are individual steps that white americans can take to contribute toward reparation. but historically the government has a lot to be responsible for. lucy, you got a lot of splaining to do, so to speak. there are enormous responsibilities on the part of the government. mitch mcconnell said we're not responsible. all of us have benefited from a society of black labor. even if you weren't here when slavery was enacted. let's talk about transfer payments, talk about access to education, let's talk about co...