HBCUs and the Search for a More Perfect Union Among Black Folks
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You can’t get away from the human condition, no matter how hard you try. And just because black folks are human and fallible, doesn’t mean that our intentions or institutions are worse than those protected and designed by white people. This is the unexamined nuance of the ‘HBCU v. PWI’ conversation that has exploded within the context of racial animosity on campuses all over the country. Black students everywhere, fed up with overt racist treatment from classmates, covert efforts to infuse respectability politics into campus diversity, and non-response from middle-aged white guys who run the schools, are crying out for justice.
HBCUs and the Search for a More Perfect Union Among Black Folks
HBCUs and the Search for a More Perfect Union…
HBCUs and the Search for a More Perfect Union Among Black Folks
You can’t get away from the human condition, no matter how hard you try. And just because black folks are human and fallible, doesn’t mean that our intentions or institutions are worse than those protected and designed by white people. This is the unexamined nuance of the ‘HBCU v. PWI’ conversation that has exploded within the context of racial animosity on campuses all over the country. Black students everywhere, fed up with overt racist treatment from classmates, covert efforts to infuse respectability politics into campus diversity, and non-response from middle-aged white guys who run the schools, are crying out for justice.