A Black Student is a Black Student is a Black Student

Although I have been a member of the faculty and then staff of an HBCU for almost forty years, I have never been comfortable with an attitude held by a small cadre of my colleagues, namely: that the black students at HBCUs were somehow more important than the black students who attended non-HBCUs, that they were the true carriers of the black high culture, and that they would inevitably become the most eminent leaders of the black community.

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The White Man's Trick Bag

This note was published as an op ed by "Inside Higher Education" on Tuesday, 10/18/11.