but it's not like whites can't apply to and attend a HBCU if they so choose.
And it's not like all white people can afford Duke. It's a very small percentage of all races. If you do have the money, you still have to meet the academic criteria.
It's like on TV sometimes, it WHITE= RICH and powerful
BLACK = Poor, struggling .
I think there are more poor white people (in sheer numbers).
-----My point is that those colleges don't exist just because of a separatist whim, but because they were necessary prior to integration if a black person wanted to go to college in the South. Today they are anachronisms, but it's not like whites can't apply to and attend a HBCU if they so choose.-----
Okay. I do understand that whites can attend. However, the racial designation "historically BLACK" does imply that whites are less welcome than blacks, and the school even boasts that it "is aggressively recruiting top minority students".
Ya think anyone would get riled if Duke boasted that it aggressively recruits top white students?
Do you suppose anyone would be upset if we called Duke a Historically White University (which, BTW, IT IS)?
Gee, call me crazy, but...I have a strange feeling there would be accusations that the title HWU (Hist. White Univ.)is RACIST because it implies that non-whites are less welcome than whites...