Elton Wright-Trusclair and other descendants of enslaved people say Society of Jesus' efforts to make amends are not enough
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| Mpls man seeks reparations from the church that enslaved his ancestors |
When 64-year-old Minneapolis resident Elton Wright-Trusclair was growing up Black in Louisiana during 1960s-era Jim Crow segregation, his elders told him very little about his family’s history.
But Wright-Trusclair says he had a hunch that terrible things had been done to his family - maybe even at the hands of the Catholic institutions he saw relegate Black people to a lower status every Sunday morning and even in cemeteries.
“My grandparents raised me, but they didn't talk about that part,” he said. “They didn't talk about that. Some things, a lot of old people didn't talk about because that's how they were raised. That's how they did us, manipulated us down there. And a lot of old people didn't talk about stuff like that.”
In 2017, top clergy and officials from the Society of Jesus and Georgetown University revealed some of the painful secrets that Wright-Trusclair now believes his grandparents were too traumatized to share.
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