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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I encourage all African-American's in this thread who are pointlessly debating with many posters who are stomping and cheering in celebration of this recent shift in focus by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to consider the following...

This recent release of Segregation 2.0 could actually be beneficial for HBCU's as threats of litigation, costly reporting requirements or federal funding reductions could compel predominantly white Ivy League and large state universities to reduce the number of minority entrants, which could bolster enrollment at highly selective HBCU's like Howard University and Spelman College, and large public HBCU's like North Carolina A&T and Florida A&M.

Don't believe the hype people.  Affirmative action being picked off by judicial conservatism at the highest levels may seem like a bad idea, but for the schools that exclusively serve the people whom will most be affected by its demise, it may reintroduce HBCU value to the nation and world.  [b]#LookForTheSilverLining[/b]

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Thank you.  Both my parents attended HBCUs because they were forbidden from attending the flagship universities in their state.  I attended a HBCU grad school BY CHOICE.  If you think back on it, aside from the Ivy League, these schools attracted the best and the brightest because they were most welcome at these schools.  I want to see kids go wherever they want and do not want to see them arbitrarily shut out of schools - but I wish more would see the benefit of HBCU's.  [/quote]

You are most welcome and thank you for your comment as well.  There's been a great deal of nonsense and negativity thrown around over these 30+ pages due in large part to the fact that posters became more preoccupied with bashing their detractors and defending their ethnicity than actually considering the potentially positive repercussions that may result from this newly disclosed Justice Department investigation.

Segregation 2.0 will at the very least force a renewal of students' social and cultural interest in HBCU's and potentially it could set in motion a resurgence in HBCU enrollment.  This is not a bad thing.  Of the 90 schools with billion-dollar endowments, not one is an HBCU.  The wealthier a school’s endowment, the more money it has both to attract students and to provide them with the funding and academic services to get them to graduation.  A new influx of students would automatically create financial gains for HBCU's by way of tuition revenues, and could revitalize the ability for these schools to hire more faculty and staff to accommodate the growth.  Public HBCUs would be better positioned to lobby state governments for additional funding to meet the new need, and the usual rebuff from legislators bemoaning retention and graduation rates would be stonewalled against incoming freshman classes with higher GPAs, higher aptitude scores, and requiring less money from financial aid because of the spike of incoming students entering from middle-class households.

African-American's are not strangers to struggle and have proven time and time again that we will not be denied - that determination to overcome despite all obstacles is what instigated the founding of HBCU's in the first place.  In the poignant words of Maya Angelou...

[i]You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.[/i]

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