First, I am White and after reading the comments, I must say that it is amazing that every comment here is negative and not based on facts at all. The White schools do not need to sue because they get their funding with no problem. Historically, black colleges and universities were created because of segregation and the systematic racism of this country against blacks and then other people of color. There is no need for a “United White College Fund” because if you look around; White people have always been the majority in colleges and universities—dating back hundreds of years. No one here is complaining about our mostly White colleges getting their share but only when the black skin color is brought into play. No one ever complains about our “sea of privilege” that we all live in everyday or complain about the current “white form” of affirmative action a.k.a Legacy Admissions. 90% of legacy admissions are from white families, whose children get in —not just because of grades but because of the connections they have—either they are from the right school district, the connection they have to the school or if “daddy donated money or brought a gym”! The cards for blacks have always been stacked against them even if they have great test scores and grades. Yes, Whites are in fact going to black colleges and universities—at a great discount because of desegregation and affirmative action. If it is not correct and factual to say that all White people are hateful racist and descendents of murders than it is also not correct to say that every black person in America is a criminal or on drugs. Iowa is 82% White and the state has some of the highest levels of crystal meth use in the country! There is such thing as systematic racism. Look at the comments alone from this article. We automatically think negative or the worst if a black person is involved and I am sick of it. The media only shows us the low class and criminal portion of black America. I lost thousands of dollars from a connection to that Bernie Madoff thing—and his White skin did not give a damn about mine! I am strong enough NOT to just “jump on the band wagon and follow the crowd”—and stand up of what is right. This is what keeps this wonderful nation of ours divided and full of hatred. If these schools should get the same as what the other schools got than let right be right.

Should these predominantly Black schools prevail, evidence exists that they will still discriminate against white enrollment. In SC we have several Black institutions. Mismanagement of money by the Public ones is a major issue. All however wish to remain in essence Black schools. The private ones are adamant about it. We have had to have a white student sue South Carolina State University to get into programs and be allowed to graduate. We are still trying to get, along with the Federal government, an accounting of many millions of dollars allocated to a transportation study institute obtained by Rep. James Clyburn that has never scratched the soil for the 1st building.

here we go again those poor blacks let them get off their a&& and move ahead on their own energy if they have any.

If they want money to operate THEIR schools, then they should go to THEIR PEOPLE to get that money. These “historical black colleges and universities” are SUPPOSED to admit students from all walks of life, but the refuse to admit students they call “white.” Well, that is racism, therefore, they do not qualify for any tax monies, period. Then they claim their “historical black colleges and universities” are PRIVATE SCHOOLS–if that is the case, then they are ineligible for qualifying for tax monies to operate those schools. Frankly, I am tired of this crap—get over it…dark people were not the only ones who were enslaved; the difference is: we have adjusted and gone on to better things rather than stunting our lives with things we had not control over or can change.

The Brown v. Board of Education decision, which mandated desegregation actually fell out of federal court jurisdiction. Both parties in the case were from the same State. That category of cases was omitted from the types of cases federal courts may hear because the Founders didn’t want the feds messing with intrastate matters. Article III, Section 2 lists the types of cases federal courts may hear, and you will notice that cases where both parties are of the same State aren’t there. Even two of the types that are there were removed by the Eleventh Amendment. The fact that the 11th Amend. exists is proof that federal courts do not have constitutional authority to hear and rule on all cases. Stated otherwise, the Brown v. Board of Education decision was unconstitutional.

Boo Hoo, Do the colleges have to go out into the streets and drag black people into their institutions? The fact is that the Black Culture in America has created an ethos that discourages advancement in “White Man” society. At some point the race needs to give up the resentment of past offenses and decide to play by the rules, or move to Liberia.

Look at it this way, folks. America has had 50 years to ‘get it right.’ In that time, the economy has been gang-raped, we’ve elected at least two generations of career criminals and higher education is the same farce that it is at the high school and grade school levels.
It makes NO sense to let herds of undeserving people go to college or a university when MOST of them will NEVER get close to a good job AFTER they get a degree [OR two OR three]. It’s akin to pouring sand down a rat hole.
It’s the Law of Diminishing Returns on steroids, boys and girls. It’s a WASTE of time AND money. It’s like pissing up a tree that’s been elevated to an art form. Anybody who gets deep in debt to chase a job that probably WON”T exist when it’s time to try and get HIRED is by definition a SELF-MADE horse’s ass.
The main benefactor of all that money is the SCHOOLS. Those schools are NOT TAXED. It is a FRICKING RACKET! Unless your chosen field can all but guarantee a job (physician, an MD who’s a specialist, computers or science], YOU’RE IN THE WRONG FIELD, young ones! You’ve been ‘HAD’ by your political “pals.”

“To tax a community for the advantage of a class is not protection, it’s plunder.” Benjamin Disraeli

This reminds me of a demonstration I heard about during the ’70s.

The black students at a college (can’t remember which one) went on strike since they needed to be paid TWICE what the white students were getting. After all, they had a better lifestyle and needed to buy named products to support it while the whites didn’t. So they needed twice as much.

The very fact that they still have colleges that admit only blacks proves they haven’t done enough towards desegrgation. If they had, those all black schools would have been forced to admit other ethnicities a long time ago.

I used my VA after enlisting for 3 years to go to college and worked a full time job.. Isn’t it time to start paying for college by working instead of getting money from the gov’t!!!! How many billions of dollars are owed to the gov’t for student loans. This doesn’t count all the grants and scholarships! As for the lawyers, well, we know that story!!

That is funny, I have never seen the mention of a United White College Fund or any other proposal for the use of just one race group to go to college except for the United Negro College Fund. So how are they not being helped and excluded?