[Bison 4 Life]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/10/18/236345546/the-whitest-historically-black-college-in-america

Seems like it was deliberate.

[Jay_Thomas]

West Virginia State too, I'm guessing.

[FunCkMaster]

This story, and the comments below it, are fascinating.

[Capler]

Few things in life remain the same.

[EB]

I learned about the schools in West Virginia years ago, and a friend of mine talked about West Virginia State.  I had not read an article this in depth before.

[lew9ball]

Unique and interesting indeed...

[ncsiacfan]

I mentioned this in another forum. I thought that it was deliberate. Nothing wrong with poor whites in a poor state saying "we  can get a education now. We can commute to Bluefield and West Virginia State". When the President closed the dorms, he knew that he was putting the blacks out of school. But the legislature and the media went along with him. All of the "agitators" live in the dormitories. Bobby Jindhal's policies are the cause of Grambling problems and those of other  institutions in a poor state which can hide behind oil revenues. Not accepting federal funds can be a winning conservative argument and he won.  If enrollment falls, we may see Grambling closed, downsized, or merged to save state funds. And the legislator and media will go along with it. "This has nothing to do with race". Well Barack Obama won and the Affordable Ahealth Care act is the law of the law. "This has nothing to do with race either".

[ncsiacfan]

Well I guess that everyone knew that I meant:

"the Affordable Health Care Act is the Law of the Land".

I will add that I agree that sometimes we do it to ourselves. I understand  that at Fort Valley State University every high ranking official below President is non-black. In the division that I headed eight years ago, there have been seven new hires and the only black of the seven was  hired this year. I get the impression that some administrators have the idea that hiring a non black will somehow insulate them in their positions.