who was isaac hawkins and why is that important for this discussion tonight? the work we did at the working group on slavery, memory and reconciliation, for a number of us it was an expression is not only georgetown system of history of the jesuits in the united states. so father mullaney was an american catholic in a time when american catholics were not clear about the question of slavery. that was who he was. he was also leaders church in universe had a choice to make. the choice pivoted around the assets of human beings and those with a 272 men, women, and children who were sold in order to reconcile some of georgetown's that's and allow for the jesuit community here to imagine george dance future. i think it's really important for us to understand why we made the decision to rename not only mulledy hall to isaac hawkins hall but -- these two halls and the renaming i think are important for other institutions to resist the false idolatry of building confederate statues, flags. the symbols in our culture at this moment that have people devoting these things

who is isaac hawkins? and why is that important?ion into the history of georgetown and the jesuits in the united states. father milady was an american catholic in a time when american catholics were not clear about the question of slavery. who is also a leader at georgetown university who had a choice. the choice pivoted round human beings. that was the 272 men, women, and children to reconcile for the debt for georgetown. it's really important for us to understand why we made the decision to rename not only milady home to isaac hawkins hall. these two halls in the renaming of important for other institutions to resist the false idolatry to building confederate statues and flakes. the symbol in our culture that people devoting these things rather than thinking about the spiritual conversions. to say that we are no longer going to put a place of honor for this person who had a legitimate choice in a moment would catholics are grappling about the question of slavery amid the choice that was the most nefarious and fundamental in streng

isaac hawkins the first name that appears on the bill of sale.were thinking about this renaming, we were thinking about the proper character of isaac in the bible and the sacrifice. as imagine all our institutions of being predicated i sacrifice of human life and human dignity, then perhaps we would have a different relationship, not only with our institutions, but with each other. the second hall is named after a free woman of color in washington dc was that was a school for half american girls. having a memorial at georgetown's campus to her helps us remember the racial composition of georgetown. .t was george's town it was the center of african-american life. we need to imagine a person living a free life and watching her brothers and sisters live in a free life. unfree life. knowing they have human dignity and living in a world that they cannot see that is one of the ways the memorialization process on this campus can animate and help our students understand why we pursue the kind of education we pursue here at georgetown. >> you talked about