Anti-Reparations Ad Reprinted at Brown
Friday’s reprinted edition of Brown University’s student newspaper made it to newsstands in Providence, a day late and protected by campus police because of bitter protests over an advertisement.
The paid advertisement denouncing reparations for slavery ran once, on Tuesday, in the Brown Daily Herald. A coalition of mostly minority student organizations stole the newspaper’s entire press run Friday to show its anger.
In a statement Saturday, Brown Interim President Sheila Blumstein backed the paper’s decision to run the ad and said the theft would be investigated. She urged students to avoid a greater confrontation.
The full-page ad is headlined, “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea and Racist Too.” Its design is similar to the Bill of Rights, and it states that black Americans owe the United States more than it owes them.
The student papers at UC Berkeley and UC Davis both ran the ad, then apologized for doing so.
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