the-moti:

kontextmaschine:

Celebrity adjunct in 2021 HBCUs represents a markedly weaker position for Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates than their potential in 2016.

What do you think of the theory that this will push anti-racist funding towards expanding HBCUs, some of the institutions in America with the most successful record of actually uplifting black people to a higher economic class, and not just talking about it?

So long as the funding streams have an external locus of control it’s a little eggs-in-one-basket, opposite the post-50s approach of suborning all of the (formally neutral, implicitly white) pillars of society a little