Is it really possible that Donald Trump is doing more for Historically Black Colleges and Universities than previous administrations? According to many black educators, all signs point to Yes, even better than under Barack Obama.
How is this even possible? And why haven’t you heard about it? (And especially, why haven’t students of these colleges and universities heard about it?) Listen in for my thoughts on this.
Mentioned links:
Historically black colleges view Trump administration warily, but also with some optimism
Historically black colleges and universities [Wikipedia]
Protesting Notre Dame students walk out of Pence’s commencement speech
Explaining what a “cut” is in Washington, DC:

Show transcript
It’s often said that, in politics, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. You do me a favor, I owe you one. You vote for me, I’ll help you out. However, let me describe one relationship, across 2 presidencies, that this doesn’t exactly fit for.
There are groups of schools called HBCUs; Historically Black Colleges and Universities. These are schools, created before 1964, with the intention of giving African-Americans a chance at higher education, when racism was reducing or preventing those opportunities. They accept students of any race, but they do have a rich tradition in the black community.
In the Source of All True Knowledge(tm), Wikipedia, I found this interesting line, “Most HBCUs were established after the American Civil War, often with the assistance of northern United States religious missionary organizations.” I just find it interesting that, the more you know about history, the more you realize that the idea that religious people are against science, or learning in general, is laughable. And while you’re at it, check out the backgrounds of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and others that were founded hundreds of years earlier; all of which have religious roots. That’s just a side point, but I do like to bring it up.
Anyway, so these HBCUs were very hopeful when America elected its first black President; Barack Obama. From the Los Angeles Time article, linked to in the show notes, is this statement from Walter Kimbrough, president of one of these schools, Dillard University. “For Obama, people expected him to come in and fix everything — especially for black people.… But he never campaigned strongly for HBCUs.” So much for hope and change; Kimbrough hoped, but nothing changed.
But here’s the point; African-Americans voted for Obama in huge numbers, but nothing came of it for HBCUs.
Then came Donald Trump, who the Left painted as a racist from the get-go. Now as I’ve noted on this show before, any Republican is painted as a racist by the Left, but Trump even more so than in the past. My thought is that it’s mostly because of some of those who supported him, and not so much what he’s actually done. That’s a debatable point, but regardless, we were led to believe that this man had a white, pointy hood with eyeholes and a Confederate flag in his desk drawer, ready to be pulled out at the next opportune time.
Given that, how do the HBCUs see him? Trump came in with no expectations placed on him by this group, but some black educators have been pleasantly surprised. Kimbrough continued, “So people now want to see what’s going to happen because he’s coming in saying he’s going to be the president for HBCUs. It’s a very different perspective, but it’s still the first 150 days, so we’ll see what happens.”
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.,