I'm VERY familiar with every HBCU, in fact, I'm a proud graduate of Tennessee State University which was founded in 1912 in Nashville, TN. HBCUs will always be necessary because black people need these institutions in order to guarantee that black students will have schools where they can receive a quality education. Because of ongoing RACISM, we should not depend on white institutions to educate black students. Also, HBCUs are an important source of actual BLACK MIDDLE CLASS society, and not the lower class image of black America reflected in the white mainstream media.
This is a good consolation of information on HBCU’s but the title and description is click bait and misleading. Nobody is being lied to or mislead about how these institutions were founded or how they were funded. It’s always been common knowledge if you either went to the schools or showed any interest in learning more about them. There are monuments and buildings named after influential wt people on the campuses. It’s not swept under a rug. Also, the correct spelling is “Spelman”, not “Spellman” - Morehouse Alum
Exactly! I agree the title is very misleading and all of the information is well known especially of you actually study our institutions -Tennessee State Alumni
Only 6% of the WORLD has a college degree. Statistically, meaning less than 1% of all people went to an HBCU. That means that statistically these facts are not well known. ✊🏾
Remember, this nation owned freed Blacks an education and, many didn’t want their kids attending schools with Blacks anyway. And the nation as a whole knew they had benefited from the hard labor of the enslaved for centuries, directly/indirectly! All Blacks weren’t able to attend school, because they had to work for “the man” because many labored under the semi- slavery system of sharecropping! When telling these type stories, you can’t tell it fully, because you don’t know the prospective of the oppressed, therefore, you can only tell what’s been written. Hence the the saying “ the half has never been told” because for every dollar Whites helped to create an HBCU, our ancestors labored for that cost and so much much. We built the economic foundation of America and put it on top of the global map, and that price can never be calculated! And yet, I love my country!🇺🇸🕊️
This is an amazingly authentic, accurate, beautiful and wonderfully uplifting video. Thank you. Bless you. Thank you for the powerful words about Wilberforce University. --- I think you have set a standard here; it will be hard to surpass. I know this was a lot of work. I also know that the experience was rewarding for you in many ways. Only two HBCUs were established before the American civil war, Lincoln (PA) and Wilberforce. I graduated from one and one of my ancestors was a founder of the other. Yet, I was born and raised in Washington D C, Howard has been a very special part of my life even though I never enrolled there. The photos of Howard were elegant but not surprising to me as they presented the story as I know it. Yet the photos of Winston-Salem State had me thinking -- are you kidding me?? They are so beautiful! I don't know anything about WSSU beyond the fact that it exists. So, this shows the vast breadth of the HBCU experience. There seems to be always more. --- Bless you, bless our channel, and bless your future.
Brown Paper Bag Test to HBCUs A look at admission practices for many of today's HBCUs reveals a woeful abuse of the black college mission and vision, an uneven exchange of student debt and continuing family hardship for tuition revenues and enrollment numbers. Historically black colleges and universities have been experts at distancing themselves from painful elements of their cultural past. One of those elements -- the brown paper bag admissions test. Propagated as urban legend but a real practice for some of our most reputable HBCU campuses, light complexion was once an admission qualification for college enrollment, and fraternity and sorority membership. The best candidates were as light as or lighter than the hue of a brown paper bag, ruler or other inanimate object brought to life with the task of adjudicating ethnic acceptance. Black folks today still suffer great growing pains to free ourselves of complexion-based valuation, but we've grown enough to cast it out from admissions standards at the HBCU. The thought of denying black people admission to a black college because of skin color seems beyond unforgivable; a direct arrow through the heart of the HBCU mission and cultural legend.
This feels like a lot of credit to the whyt founders and funders, many of which were problematic in nature… let’s try to present nuance without having to omit truth.
??? "...let's try to present nuance without having to admit truth..." Is that what you meant to say? You don't want to admit truth?? OK. That's a first for me. The truth is that Quakers began to manumit their slaves in an organized fashion in 1767. The truth is that Methodists in the north and upper south not only manumitted tens of thousands of slaves before 1810, but they welcomed them into the Methodist church. The truth is that a Methodist minister convinced Richard Allen's owner to allow him to buy his freedom. The truth is that Wilberforce U., the first HBCU owned by black people was first founded by a black and white Methodist joint venture. The truth is that virtually all black Americans have white ancestors, and they were not all rapists. The truth is that I love the truth.
@@mickeybell8933actually, a large majority of the founders of HBCU’s were not Jewish but Protestant like Baptist. But a lot of Jewish intellectuals came to teach at HBCU’s as they fled from Hitler and his Nazi regime.
These institutions were created to benefit the creators of it ,you go learn what they tell you you give their answers yours would be wrong you institutionalized by them to think their way as Stokely Carmichael once himself said .
A good college is not merely about teaching; it is about education. There’s a HUGE difference between the two. Educated people don’t merely repeat lessons. They learn how to think about what they are being taught. They learn how to research independent sources. They learn how to synthesize outside information. They learn how to think critically. People who are taught only learn what others say to them. People who are educated know how to question what they are being taught; hence, they learn more.
@DerickSmith-r9b you sound like a person that's against education. I'm glad you used Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) because he was not against getting an education. I know that because I'm associate with his ex and stepdaughter. I hope you only explain what an education is to your kids. BTW your education begins at home with your parents.
@@brotherbakari1627 Oh, trust me, my brother. I didn’t write that “response” for that person. I wrote it for others who might be influenced by the silliness written there. The best way to combat bad speech is with better speech. To paraphrase E. Burks, the best way to let foolish speech spread is by intelligence to say nothing. 😀
This is excellent content. Just make a note for yourself that Rick Mahorn is in the Hampton Athletics Hall of Fame as well as the CIAA Hall of Fame. Not in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. And, yes. I am a Howard University grad. So, there ain't but one HU. 🦬
@blkball No doubt, Young Bro. Also, I noticed a lot of Joe Namath stills while you were covering Hampton football. Joe was an All-American QB at Alabama and went on to become Broadway Joe while winning a Super Bowl w/ the Jets. See if you can tap Hampton's Athletic Department to replace those. ✊
How many of these HBCU facts did you already know?
I'm VERY familiar with every HBCU, in fact, I'm a proud graduate of Tennessee State University which was founded in 1912 in Nashville, TN. HBCUs will always be necessary because black people need these institutions in order to guarantee that black students will have schools where they can receive a quality education. Because of ongoing RACISM, we should not depend on white institutions to educate black students. Also, HBCUs are an important source of actual BLACK MIDDLE CLASS society, and not the lower class image of black America reflected in the white mainstream media.
I’m still stuck on Ms. Bethune starting a school with a $1.50. That’s a bag of chips today.
what an incredible expose on the history of the HBCU's.I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Thank you for watching ✊🏾
Thank you VUU.
This is a good consolation of information on HBCU’s but the title and description is click bait and misleading.
Nobody is being lied to or mislead about how these institutions were founded or how they were funded. It’s always been common knowledge if you either went to the schools or showed any interest in learning more about them. There are monuments and buildings named after influential wt people on the campuses. It’s not swept under a rug.
Also, the correct spelling is “Spelman”, not “Spellman”
- Morehouse Alum
“Common knowledge IF…” most of the world never had the experience of an HBCU, so we are just sharing some history.
Thank you for watching ✊🏾
Well said, my Morehouse brother!
I think the word that better describes the information assembled in this video is "compilation".
Exactly! I agree the title is very misleading and all of the information is well known especially of you actually study our institutions
-Tennessee State Alumni
Only 6% of the WORLD has a college degree. Statistically, meaning less than 1% of all people went to an HBCU. That means that statistically these facts are not well known. ✊🏾
Why nobody hadn’t written a movie about this
That means there’s still time! Let’s do it ✊🏾
There are books about it
@MarioCarter you write the movie!
Can you do a Alcorn vs Jackson State???
Remember, this nation owned freed Blacks an education and, many didn’t want their kids attending schools with Blacks anyway. And the nation as a whole knew they had benefited from the hard labor of the enslaved for centuries, directly/indirectly! All Blacks weren’t able to attend school, because they had to work for “the man” because many labored under the semi- slavery system of sharecropping! When telling these type stories, you can’t tell it fully, because you don’t know the prospective of the oppressed, therefore, you can only tell what’s been written. Hence the the saying “ the half has never been told” because for every dollar Whites helped to create an HBCU, our ancestors labored for that cost and so much much. We built the economic foundation of America and put it on top of the global map, and that price can never be calculated! And yet, I love my country!🇺🇸🕊️
Really do not know what you are trying to say. Grammatically you're not making sense
This is an amazingly authentic, accurate, beautiful and wonderfully uplifting video. Thank you. Bless you.
Thank you for the powerful words about Wilberforce University. --- I think you have set a standard here; it will be hard to surpass. I know this was a lot of work. I also know that the experience was rewarding for you in many ways.
Only two HBCUs were established before the American civil war, Lincoln (PA) and Wilberforce. I graduated from one and one of my ancestors was a founder of the other. Yet, I was born and raised in Washington D C, Howard has been a very special part of my life even though I never enrolled there. The photos of Howard were elegant but not surprising to me as they presented the story as I know it. Yet the photos of Winston-Salem State had me thinking -- are you kidding me?? They are so beautiful! I don't know anything about WSSU beyond the fact that it exists. So, this shows the vast breadth of the HBCU experience. There seems to be always more. --- Bless you, bless our channel, and bless your future.
Thank you so much for those kind and encouraging words. We will continue to do the work ✊🏾
Wonderful video, only comment is Claflin is pronounced Claff-lin, not clafe-in.
Noted. Thank you for giving us great feedback. ✊🏾
Brown Paper Bag Test to HBCUs
A look at admission practices for many of today's HBCUs reveals a woeful abuse of the black college mission and vision, an uneven exchange of student debt and continuing family hardship for tuition revenues and enrollment numbers.
Historically black colleges and universities have been experts at distancing themselves from painful elements of their cultural past. One of those elements -- the brown paper bag admissions test.
Propagated as urban legend but a real practice for some of our most reputable HBCU campuses, light complexion was once an admission qualification for college enrollment, and fraternity and sorority membership. The best candidates were as light as or lighter than the hue of a brown paper bag, ruler or other inanimate object brought to life with the task of adjudicating ethnic acceptance.
Black folks today still suffer great growing pains to free ourselves of complexion-based valuation, but we've grown enough to cast it out from admissions standards at the HBCU. The thought of denying black people admission to a black college because of skin color seems beyond unforgivable; a direct arrow through the heart of the HBCU mission and cultural legend.
They were criminals
Who is the "they" you're referring to?
This feels like a lot of credit to the whyt founders and funders, many of which were problematic in nature… let’s try to present nuance without having to omit truth.
??? "...let's try to present nuance without having to admit truth..." Is that what you meant to say? You don't want to admit truth?? OK. That's a first for me.
The truth is that Quakers began to manumit their slaves in an organized fashion in 1767. The truth is that Methodists in the north and upper south not only manumitted tens of thousands of slaves before 1810, but they welcomed them into the Methodist church. The truth is that a Methodist minister convinced Richard Allen's owner to allow him to buy his freedom. The truth is that Wilberforce U., the first HBCU owned by black people was first founded by a black and white Methodist joint venture. The truth is that virtually all black Americans have white ancestors, and they were not all rapists. The truth is that I love the truth.
If you don’t acknowledge the whyt accomplishments there will NOT be a video.
@macmac7396 wrong
From my understanding alot of the HBCUs were founded or funded by white Jews who were unable to teach in white universities because they were Jews
@@mickeybell8933actually, a large majority of the founders of HBCU’s were not Jewish but Protestant like Baptist. But a lot of Jewish intellectuals came to teach at HBCU’s as they fled from Hitler and his Nazi regime.
Not beautified…….Be-At-ti-Fied!
VUU!!
These institutions were created to benefit the creators of it ,you go learn what they tell you you give their answers yours would be wrong you institutionalized by them to think their way as Stokely Carmichael once himself said .
A good college is not merely about teaching; it is about education. There’s a HUGE difference between the two.
Educated people don’t merely repeat lessons. They learn how to think about what they are being taught. They learn how to research independent sources. They learn how to synthesize outside information. They learn how to think critically.
People who are taught only learn what others say to them. People who are educated know how to question what they are being taught; hence, they learn more.
@samuelrosslee408 that was a great response. I try not to hold conversations with people like him.
@DerickSmith-r9b you sound like a person that's against education. I'm glad you used Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) because he was not against getting an education. I know that because I'm associate with his ex and stepdaughter. I hope you only explain what an education is to your kids. BTW your education begins at home with your parents.
@@brotherbakari1627 Oh, trust me, my brother. I didn’t write that “response” for that person. I wrote it for others who might be influenced by the silliness written there.
The best way to combat bad speech is with better speech. To paraphrase E. Burks, the best way to let foolish speech spread is by intelligence to say nothing. 😀
He was a product of Howard! 🤷🏿
This is excellent content. Just make a note for yourself that Rick Mahorn is in the Hampton Athletics Hall of Fame as well as the CIAA Hall of Fame. Not in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
And, yes. I am a Howard University grad. So, there ain't but one HU. 🦬
Thank you for that note. ✊🏾
@blkball No doubt, Young Bro.
Also, I noticed a lot of Joe Namath stills while you were covering Hampton football. Joe was an All-American QB at Alabama and went on to become Broadway Joe while winning a Super Bowl w/ the Jets.
See if you can tap Hampton's Athletic Department to replace those. ✊
😂