An NBC News OpEd
We are mere hours from the end of the first 100 days of Donald
Trump's administration, which has proven to be an administration marred
by xenophobia, assaults on the female reproductive system, and the
confirmation of an attorney general with a history of voter
discrimination and voter suppression.
And, perhaps one of the most jarring
sentiments is the blatant attempt to discredit or erase the importance,
history and impact of historically black institutions of higher learning
in this country.
Following Trump's Secretary of Education pick Betsy DeVos calling HBCUs "pioneers" of "school choice," negating
the history of institutional racisms, Jim Crow laws, bigotry and hatred
that barred black students from attending Predominately White
Institutions (PWIs), we are left wondering: will this administration
continue to erase and demean blackness?
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