Browsing: Against the Grain II

It’s Time For A “Cross” Division in Sports

We Shouldn’t Be So Happy About Chauvin Verdict

Don’t Forget the Legacy of Calvin Peete

Black Businesses Need to Handle Business

Publix Has Nothing to do With Heiress’ Actions

     Recently, a contentious exchange between lobbyist Barney Bishop and state representative Ramon Alexander expounded on the powder keg that is currently race relations in America.  Bishop, arguing in favor of HB233, a bill that would “prohibit State Board of Education and BOG from shielding students, staff, and faculty from certain speech.”  In short, it would open college campuses in the state university system to anyone who wishes to speak on campus.

     Whatever happened to compromise?  We can’t actually believe that we are always right can we?  The only way our country can begin to heal is through compromise. 

     Beginning with the oversight of the state universities by the board of regents and continuing with the board of governors, FAMU, with its unique mission has been gradually lumped into the grouping of major state universities.  This occurred while FAMU was still being funded basically as a specialty institution, with its mission to educate blacks. Gradually the metrics of FAMU’s success became morphed into a rubric of performance funding measured against programs with exponential funding by the state.

     The term racist is one of the worst monikers you can attach to a person.  It often equates one’s vision to that of the U.S. Confederacy…a division of folks who never wanted to see Blacks attain their full rights as U.S. citizens.