Commentary
Harvard University is the latest of America’s elite colleges to establish a fund to redress the burden of guilt it says it bears for the legacy of slavery. In doing so, it joins a consortium of 50 other colleges that pledged to address the stain of slavery and the role it played in the lives of their institutions. These colleges clearly believe that because some very bad things happened in the past—such as slavery—we remain somehow responsible for the bad actions of our forebears.
The past we have is the past we’ve got, and we have a duty to understand why things happened as they did. However, while we can learn from the past, we can never go back and undo the past.
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