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18th
Mississippi: reminding me every day why I abandoned it
Holy higher education, Batman. Governor Barbour wants to wipe out the state’s public Historically Black Colleges and the only women’s college in one fell swoop. Is this the first time ever that Clarence Thomas makes a point I can agree with? Even HE thinks this is malarchy and says:
“I think it undisputable that these institutions have succeeded in part because of their distinctive histories and traditions,” he argued that states should not assume that the path to desegregation would be found with fewer historically black institutions. “It would be ironic, to say the least, if the institutions that sustained blacks during segregation were themselves destroyed in an effort to combat its vestiges,” he wrote.