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Branded a racist, lawmaker scales back tuition-cut proposal [NC]
Associated Press ^ | Jun 1, 2016 6:25 PM EDT | Anna Gronewold

Posted on 06/01/2016 7:41:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A North Carolina lawmaker who proposed to slash tuition to just $500 a semester at five public universities that serve mostly blacks, American Indians and the poor announced Wednesday that he is scaling back on the bill after running into mistrust so fierce he was branded a racist.

Republican Sen. Tom Apodaca said he plans to drop the three historically black colleges from the bill. Apodaca is Hispanic.

The move came after North Carolina’s NAACP called the proposed tuition cut a back-door attempt to drive the black schools into bankruptcy. …

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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: elizabethcitystate; fayettevillestate; naacp; northcarolina; tomapodaca; tuition; whitehispanic; winstoncitystate

1 posted on 06/01/2016 7:41:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“Chump don’t want de help, chump don’ get de help.” — Barbara Billingsley (”Airplane!”)


2 posted on 06/01/2016 7:43:12 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: Olog-hai

The black schools are bankrupt already...thanks to corrupt, larcenous and incompetent black administrators.


3 posted on 06/01/2016 7:45:53 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Olog-hai

Al Sharpton can’t make HBCs free?


4 posted on 06/01/2016 7:46:09 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Olog-hai

You just can’t make this crap up.


5 posted on 06/01/2016 7:46:12 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Olog-hai

You’re racist if you do, and you’re racist if you don’t.

Why bother!?


6 posted on 06/01/2016 7:46:54 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Chump don’t want de help, chump don’ get de help.” — Barbara Billingsley (”Airplane!”)
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“Stewardess, I speak Jive.”


7 posted on 06/02/2016 4:42:17 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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