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White House to Impose "Fairness" on (College) Education Spending
Minding the Campus ^ | July 20, 2010 | John Rosenberg

Posted on 07/23/2010 1:46:55 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Speaking to the NAACP convention in Kansas City on Monday (July 12), Michelle Obama said that because of "stubborn inequalities" that "still persist --- in education and health, in income and wealth --- "the NAACP's founders "would urge us to increase our intensity."

The White House, for some reason, appears to have heard her call, for on Tuesday, reported the Chronicle of Higher Education, "White House Official Says Civil-Rights Office Will Enforce Fair State Spending for Black Colleges."

John S. Wilson Jr., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, said on Tuesday that the Education Department was looking into which states continue to shortchange public black colleges and how the federal government can make sure appropriations are more equitable among public institutions.

Mr. Wilson said the department's Office for Civil Rights was evaluating data on state appropriations to compare amounts given to historically black colleges with those given to traditionally white institutions. The office, he said, is developing strategies to improve any disparities and will announce more details about its plans for action at a September conference held by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Presumably, according to the White House, in order to be "fair" and "equitable" there can be no "disparities" between the funds states spend on "historically black" and "traditionally white" institutions.

It will be interesting to observe the enforcement of this new presidential effort at racial engineering. A quick look at a list of HBCU's by state suggests some questions. Alabama, for example, has nine historically black colleges (not all of them public). Does the White House believe that equity and fairness [...] require that each one of them receive the same amount of state funds as each branch of the "traditionally white" institutions?

(Excerpt) Read more at mindingthecampus.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2divisive4usa; 2racist2bprez; bellcurve; blackracism; college; quotas; racistpresident
The ugly fact is that based on academic achievement, only a minority of black and Hispanic youths are college material. There are also unqualified whites and Asians who attend because "it's the thing to do".

Trying to equalize college attendance and graduation across all groups, or saying that almost everyone should go to college, runs into the Bell Curve, which academics like to ignore.

1 posted on 07/23/2010 1:46:57 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

More and more the masque of tolerance is being ripped from the face of this racist bastard and his wife.


2 posted on 07/23/2010 1:49:37 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: All

still trying to shore up that white voting base, I see...


3 posted on 07/23/2010 1:50:44 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: reaganaut1

Of course the White House listened to the First Lady. Obama does everything she wants. He continues to divide this nation between the races.


4 posted on 07/23/2010 1:51:27 PM PDT by RC2
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To: reaganaut1

How many of these “Black Colleges” are state schools? That is the only category that the state should be spending on. The Feds should not be spending on any of them.


5 posted on 07/23/2010 1:53:55 PM PDT by Ingtar (If he could have taxed it, Obama's hole would have been plugged by now.)
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To: reaganaut1

It’s hard to satisfy people who keep demanding that the finish line be moved.


6 posted on 07/23/2010 1:54:37 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: reaganaut1

7 posted on 07/23/2010 1:55:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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8 posted on 07/23/2010 1:59:14 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Ingtar
How many of these “Black Colleges” are state schools?

How many "White Colleges" exist?

9 posted on 07/23/2010 2:01:23 PM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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How many "White Colleges" exist?

BYU? j/k

10 posted on 07/23/2010 2:02:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Ingtar

Researchers at all types of colleges apply for
federal grants. The money goes where there is
staff willing to apply for it and competent to
perform the work. Trying to equalize the money
based on melanin content may leave a lot of
money on the table with nobody to do the work.
Think Title IX for research. The only way to make
it equal is to reduce the amount available to
“white” institutions to the same amount that “black” institutions
have enough capacity to successfully bid and
execute. Lots of folks at the “white” schools will
be idled.


11 posted on 07/23/2010 2:13:54 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: reaganaut1

Here it is - US taxpayer money for reparations (outright cash to black colleges and black students). This is in addition to taxpayer payoffs to medical schools for black student admissions AND....AND graduations!!


12 posted on 07/23/2010 2:19:01 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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Find this a little hard to believe. If a college is public it can’t be a black college.


13 posted on 07/23/2010 2:23:02 PM PDT by marlon
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To: reaganaut1

It’s time to start a WHITE college fund for an opressed faction in this country who gets very little help from this racist administration.


14 posted on 07/23/2010 2:30:06 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: marlon
If a college is public it can’t be a black college.

It is not a black college. It is a "historically black college." It would currently be only 90%-95% black.

A few years ago, some historically black colleges tried to become less black by offering "free tuition" to whites. There was an...uhem....outcry.

15 posted on 07/23/2010 2:36:18 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.)
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To: RWB Patriot

My sister, who used to be a guidance counselor at a suburban Indianapolis school, was telling me today how they were constantly changing the requirements for the honors program, the President’s Award and the Character Award at her school so more Blacks would be represented. So it isn’t just college or the federal level people it is everywhere.


16 posted on 07/23/2010 2:38:59 PM PDT by redangus
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To: reaganaut1

it never end...I love the post segregation era


17 posted on 07/23/2010 3:39:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (i miss puroresu...did he do something real bad?)
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