Thanks to Donald Trump, HBCUs are on America's radar again

[jilla82]

The Trump legacy in the black community is housing descrimination and the Central Park 5.

have anything more recent than 30 years ago?

 

[Breh13]

have anything more recent than 30 years ago?

:mjcup:

 

[Pressure]

have anything more recent than 30 years ago?

2017-2002=?

 

[Eddy Gordo]

You guys aren't even a little optimistic?

Nope

 

[Mowgli]

Separate


but equal

 

[Phoenix Rising]

Or to push the segregation agenda. I think that he does things like this to say "look, you have your own schools, you should just go to them".

Yep, this is exactly it.

That's why Devos made that comment about HBCUs being pioneers of school choice, which seems to be code for segregation.

 

[Wink Beaufield]

Trump is going to help them out just to shyt on Obama .

You could use Trumps childish hatred of Obama to your advantage if the cards are played right.

"Obama would never pass universal healthcare"
"Obama would never pass prison reforms."

 

[Colilluminati]

You could use Trumps childish hatred of Obama to your advantage if the cards are played right.

"Obama would never pass universal healthcare"
"Obama would never pass prison reforms."

Trump is gonna shyt in Obama . Watch

 

[tmonster]

Increasing their funding is something great for the African american community.

can you post proof of their funding having been increased?

 

[Pressure]

can you post proof of their funding having been increased?

It did under Obama. Still needs more.

http://trib.al/SQ2WgaE

So, I’m not discounting the significance of that as a gesture and as a symbol. There’s no question about that. The bottom line is, you have to translate into funding.

The fact of the matter is, when Barack Obama took office in ’09, federal—annual federal funding to HBCUs was somewhere around $3.8 billion. When I left after the first term, it was at $5.3 billion. That’s the biggest increase. That’s historic. That’s significant.

John Silvanus Wilson Jr. was appointed by President Obama to serve as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Under Obama’s leadership, blacks and Latinos earned 270,000 more degrees from 2013 to 2014 than before Obama took office, and Pell Grants increased from $523 million to $824 million. Funding increased $17 million last year alone.

Trumps' budget proposals will shine more light on what he'll appropriate.

 

[MostReal]

HBCUS would rather be funded correctly instead of getting empty press clippings

 

[MostReal]

Or to push the segregation agenda. I think that he does things like this to say "look, you have your own schools, you should just go to them".

At this point I don't care what agenda he uses it for, if he funds HBCUS he'll get a big atta boy from me.

Democrats have had their shot to do the same

 

[Wiles]

Or to push the segregation agenda. I think that he does things like this to say "look, you have your own schools, you should just go to them".

The black community thrived in segregation.

 

[MostReal]

HBCUs constitute three percent of America’s colleges but produce 20 percent of black graduates, 50 percent of black public school teachers and lawyers, 80 percent of black judges, and 90 percent of black BA’s in STEM fields...
Don't let your Trump hate blind you.
Increasing their funding is something great for the African american community.

Gotta rep you for this. People really don't know the importance of HBCUS in the black community. It's one of our last institutions actually producing productive black people on a large scale.

 

[tmonster]

It did under Obama. Still needs more.

http://trib.al/SQ2WgaE





Trumps' budget proposals will shine more light on what he'll appropriate.

not sure that was my question
I was asking about Trump