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Originally posted by Steeltrap
I'm not an HBCU alumna, but my mother attended Howard for two years in the late 1940s before she had to drop out for lack of $$$.
I want to see such schools preserved because our kids may need them more than ever if the Supreme Court kills off affirmative action admissions, which may happen by next June. And I think it's going to happen. 
The court agreed to review the 1978 Bakke case, which concerns how colleges and universities use race in admission standards.
The Morris Brown story is very unsettling, and I do feel sorry for those young people.
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I know that many people are sad over this, but is it because the school is closing or because the students were receiving a sub-standard education? If the education wasn't where it was supposed to be, isn't it best that they close instead of passing students that are un-prepared to compete in society????
Also, regarding affirmative action, have we really reached a point in our community where we think our children NEED affirmative action to get into universities. I would argue that our children need a restoration of Intellectualism. Black people don't need to be GIVEN anything, we need to work for it. That should be the attitude we force our children to adopt, instead of pushing affirmative action down their throat....and having them rely on it so much to the point that they feel hopeless without it.
Just my 6 cents...
OOps.....my conservativism slipped out again
