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rmrd0000 — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:18:38 +0000

In reply to Howard University is not one big happy tribal family; who knew?

Howard University students reach deal to end month-long protest over housing, other issues

After a month-long protest waged against Howard University administrators over housing issues, transparency and representation, students and officials have reached a resolution, demonstrators announced Monday morning.

Students have “substantially accomplished their objectives,” Donald Temple, the students’ attorney, told The Washington Post, marking the end of one of the longest student-led protests in the school’s history. The terms outlined in the agreement are confidential, he added.

“The students courageously journeyed on a path towards greater university accountability and transparency and public safety,” Temple said during a news conference Monday, broadcast on the daily news show Roland Martin Unfiltered.

“The university’s pleased to come to an agreement with the students,” said Frank Tramble, a Howard spokesman. The university’s president, Wayne A.I. Frederick, plans to share a longer message with the community, Tramble said.

Howard protests over mold and mice put campus housing contract under scrutiny

The announcement is the result of weeks of negotiations between students and Howard administrators. Since launching their protest Oct. 12, students have rallied around four core demands: an in-person town hall with Frederick and other officials; the permanent reinstatement of student, alumni and faculty affiliate positions that are being removed from the school’s board of trustees; a meeting with university leaders about housing; and legal, disciplinary and academic immunity for protesters.

“We came, we saw, we declared and we won,” Channing Hill, a student organizer, said on the broadcast. “Today is a new day for Bison everywhere.”

According to demonstrators, more than 100 students have been living in the Blackburn University Center, a student hub on campus and home to its largest dining hall. Dozens more, including a small group of faculty and alumni, have pitched tents outside, vowing to remain until the demands were met.

In this "news story", the

artappraiser — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 07:23:42 +0000

In reply to Howard University is not one big happy tribal family; who knew?

In this "news story", the Root basically crows that HBC's may have never been in more favor and the money is pouring in to them and they are running perfectly, there are no problems to report. Oh and here's a photo illustration of Howard just in case you thought you saw something reported about problems there, no problems.

Am I just imagining things that its implied but not said that's not the same situation at non HBC'S?

Assigned article is to get some paid advertising from HBC's? After all, there is money is pouring in.

I'd really just like to say:

artappraiser — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 23:39:21 +0000

In reply to Huh, if you are trying to

I'd really just like to say: your questions and answers are almost all simplistic or moronic and not worth the time of day and make people flee participating. Tired of being polite about that. Stupid of me to take so long to come to that conclusion.

Would be great if you went back to starting your own blogs, your own little separate world.

Huh, if you are trying to

artappraiser — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 23:22:40 +0000

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Huh, if you are trying to argue that blacks are not equally represented, your links make no sense as self-identified Blacks are 12% of the population. You need to go back and find some data from like, 1970

No I do not "argue" from both sides.

You're the one always making points that people are tribal and we can't change that and therefore "minorities" still need to stick together in SEGREGATED colleges. Going back to my Fukuyama and "Wokee" threads, you were always simplistically and idiotically piping up with: but tribalism is a good thing!

Jesus H. Christ, have you become so warped by years of cherry-picked segregated reading by skin color that you don't even know what 'CLASS" means? ECONOMIC CLASS, read up on it. It's a thing. It even divides people in supposed racial tribes, imagine that.

I am not even thinking of you anymore when I do sarcasm in titles like that, I'm talking to intelligent sophisticated people who still mistakenly wallow in racialism.

Your attacks are clueless, you don't even understand what others on this forum are saying. It's become REAL tiresome to engage with your comprehension level of the discussions, a real tiresome waste of time.

And, I have come to believe, a real depressant of participation here, people are not looking for the level of talk you provide, how you hijack, they run from threads you get active on. They don't want to get dragged down into lowest common denominator pedantry and have to go through stupid Race 101 links.

If you continue to require reading comprehension classes and understanding of economic class issues, I am not going to be the teacher. I refuse and wish you'd stop dragging threads down to your stupid level of discussion

Any organization that has a

rmrd0000 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:43:13 +0000

In reply to If one can't call this tribal

Any organization that has a racial majority is a tribe?

Corporate executives are 72% white, so they are a tribe?

The Senate is 89% white

https://www.axios.com/diversity-in-senate-93afcd5d-8f8e-4b9d-9cc9-47b04945ad8b.html

The NYFD must be a tribe

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/nyregion/fdny-racism-scandal.html

HBCUs were created because white colleges and universities did not accept Blacks students.

Black pride was always a part of the educational process.

Stop the nonsense

https://www.zippia.com/business-executive-jobs/demographics/

Edit to add:

One minute, you yell Blacks are not a monolith

The next minute,you shout that Blacks are a tribe

I don't take you to be a serious person

He does have a point - if we

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:35:11 +0000

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He does have a point - if we're going to contend there are diverse viewpoints among blacks, we should accept that a traditionally black school is not lockstep homogenous either - though for some areas/philosophies more than others. And these characteristics also change across generations - GenZ, millennial, GenX, boomers.... similar splits.

If one can't call this tribal

artappraiser — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:37:25 +0000

In reply to AA put "Tribal" in her title

If one can't call this tribal then the word has no meaning:

What percentage of Howard University students are white?

The enrolled student population at Howard University, both undergraduate and graduate, is 71.3% Black or African American, 6.1% Hispanic or Latino, 3.37% Two or More Races, 2.78% Asian, 2.26% White, 1.17% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.213% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.

Howard University | Data USA

Howard itself has always been known to set the standard of Black excellence and moving the culture forward...Whether you’re an athlete or never played sports, an actor, business major, or engineer, it’s the voice that everyone has that comes together to make this school so great.

Timothy McDonald

STUDENT, CLASS OF 2022 - MR. HOWARD UNIVERSITY 2020 @ Howard University's own undergrad admissions page

Your reply has nothing to do

rmrd0000 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:36:06 +0000

In reply to You know there are/were

Your reply has nothing to do with the conservation. I pointed out that "tribal" was used in the title. The obvious implication was that there was a supposed Black Uni-mind. I pointed out that different leaders had different viewpoints Seconldy, certain Black leaders are dismissed as corrupt. Jesse Jackson, for example, is included in that group. Reverend Jackson is 80-years old and has Parkinson's. He is negotiating with the HU President at the request of the students. He suffered a fall as a result of the imbalance caused by his disease. The reverend was hospitalized. He is still supporting the students. I reject Orion's associating him with corruption. Orion can simply say that he does not like Jesse Jackson.

Edit to add:

Regarding Farrakhan, despite Orion's opinion, the Nation of Islam works in prison systems to change the lives of incarcerated Black men.

Those Who Know Don't Say

The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653822/those-who-know-dont-say/

AA put "Tribal" in her title

rmrd0000 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:57:11 +0000

In reply to “If you tell a lie big enough

AA put "Tribal" in her title

There has always been differences of opinion that were obvious

Booker T Washington vs. W.E.B DuBois

Martin Luther King Jr. vs Malcolm X

Al Sharpton had disputes with BLM

The Goebbels statement is not applicable.

John McWhorter has verbal battles with Ta- Nehisi Coates

Cornel West disagreed with Barack Obama.

Name the corruption committed by Washington, DuBois, King, Malcolm X, Coates, McWhorter, West, Obama.

Your slur many people because you disagree with their POV.

Edit to add:

As yo noted any "corrupt Black activist can be matched by a racist white Conservative.

Just say that you disagree with Black activists and leave it at that.

2nd Edit to add:

Rev. William Barber and Roland Martin are among those called to campus by the students. Are they corrupt?
When was the last time you saw Farrakhan in the spotlight?

You know there are/were

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:55:00 +0000

In reply to AA put "Tribal" in her title

Deleted, irrelevant.