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Jewel D •
9 months ago
What struck me was that: the state of WVA clearly stole a valuable asset from the black community at-large. They knew as well as the black students did, that the black students would be discriminated against by local landlords, and would thereby be forced to leave the school. And what's with hiring all white teachers, when the former administration had no problem filling those same positions with black professionals? Black teachers are role models! As the researcher quoted in the article showed, black colleges make unique contributions to the black community and its economic well-being, producing unusually high numbers of graduates in education, math, and science. I went to a women's college, and we had much the same outcome among our graduates. Shame on those W Virginians, trying to hamstring and then steal a cultural asset like that. Change the law too - they have no right to benefit from their thievery.
In fact, what the white insiders of the day did at the time was give the school a "poison pill", not unlike in the corporate world. They eviscerated the school, diluted the support system it previously offered - just to make life that much harder for blacks. They knew damn well how that school was so helpful to the black community, and they just couldn't take seeing blacks move up in the world. So they poisoned that school, to damage black society as best they could. Reparations are in order, as I see it."
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Cacs used housing discrimination to push blacks out of Bluefield State College.