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Some within the black community are in full meltdown after accusing the historic HBCU Tuskegee University of enforcing “anti-black” rules when its president banned bonnets, durags, slippers, and other ghetto attire. The policy has sparked outrage, with some claiming the school is forcing “respectable societal norms” on its own campus.

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University President J. Luke Wood, who identifies as African American, launched a “Black Honors College” at Sacramento State University last year. His stated goal is to transform it into the “HBCU of the West.” As he explained in an interview: “So we can’t be an HBCU—we weren’t founded in time, right? But we can be everything but the historical part.” But that “historical part” is not incidental. “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” are called that because they were historically black, founded during a time of legal segregation. The designation came about in 1965 after the Civil Rights Act made it illegal for HBCUs to refuse to admit non-black students. When Wood laments that the program wasn’t “founded in time,” he is expressing a yearning for the time of segregation, which the Civil Rights Movement fought to dismantle. The Black Honors College website claims it does not discriminate based on race, yet Wood has described the program as “specifically designed to serve Black students.” He and other university officials have emphasized that its primary purpose is to address the problem of lower graduation rates among black students. Notably, the program does not require applicants to show that they have personally faced any disadvantage or hardship. Given President Wood’s own descriptions, it is difficult to see how this program complies with federal anti-discrimination laws, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Laura Powell

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