Education for Black America 🎓📚👩🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏽

It has taken me a while to respond to the affirmative action ruling by the Supreme Court making it unlawful for colleges to take race into consideration as a specific factor in admissions.

I can appreciate the questions and concerns of why the Black students aka African American, aka descendants of the enslaved should have this boost in college entry decisions.

Realize that these Black students who applied were qualified to attend these institutions of higher learning. In example, I am assuming college entry boards are looking at 20 qualified students and must select students for ten available slots. Perhaps under the old rule they’re asking themselves, “what is the percentage of Black students at our school and what is the percentage of white students at our school?” They would then make a decision. Here is why that process is still necessary.

Do you understand the impact of 200+years of slavery on a people? It goes through the generations affecting health, mindset, culture, and how one responds to the world.

What it has taken forty-nine generations to create or develop cannot be cured or changed in 50 Years. Especially with an active resistance still in place as seen in some of our southern states.

All those years of slavery and the attempts to keep Black Americans in a lower-class system has caused much of what we see in terms of the angry Black man, the lack of confidence in oneself and one’s own ability, and so on.