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As Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told Congress in 1963 when it was considering retroceding — or giving back — most of D.C. to Maryland by simply passing a statute, it is “inconceivable that Congress would have set in motion the cumbersome and arduous process of constitutional amendment, on a factual assumption which it anticipated might be utterly destroyed 3 years later.”

D.C. statehood requires constitutional amendment →

As Robert F. Kennedy noted moral courage “is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.” Because of this, I am skeptical that Oberlin, which has acted in a tone-deaf, defiant, and even vindicative manner throughout this period, will do the right thing now.

An Oberlin apology letter to Gibson Bakery →