Friday, July 24, 2015

AFRICAN AMERICANS vs FOREIGN BLACKS AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Up until very recently, it was an unwritten but steadfastly adhered to rule that a so-called “foreign Black” could not serve as president of the Capstone. Now, all of a sudden, we have not only a president, but the provost and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences who are “foreign Blacks.” Do these individuals have a real empathy with the African American “Black experience”? Or does that really matter?

There are preliminary indications that two of these individuals have manifested a certain lack of empathy with the African American “Black experience.” This is particularly problematic, since there is a theory that the three “foreign Blacks” were plunked into “leadership” because they could more easily be manipulated than African Americans.

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