Trump seeks to outdo Obama in backing black colleges

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is expected to provide historically black colleges and universities a long-awaited boost as he looks to outdo his predecessors — including the nation’s first African-American president – on a surprising issue.

Trump will sign an executive order as early as Monday, when the schools’ presidents arrive in Washington for a visit. It’s expected to significantly strengthen the office that pushes the federal government to do business with the colleges by moving it to the White House and providing it specific goals, according to those who are helping to write the document.

The potential is huge. Federal agencies have thousands of contracts with colleges, universities and think tanks worth billions of dollars, primarily for research that includes studying everything from cancer to poverty.

“It would be truly, truly historic,” said Leonard Haynes, a longtime educator who ran the office and is helping to write the executive order. “It’s part of a long time dream...none of (the other presidents) had the courage to do it.”

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[font color=330099]Democrats may be willing to accept this change since it moves the White House HBCU from being directly under Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.[/font]

[Ilsa]

1. If 45 can do one thing right that will make a difference,

Then great. Let him lead the way.

That doesn't mean I'll support him for all the damage he's doing on everything else, including public education.

[Hortensis]

3. This is NOT about doing right, though, not in the least.

It's huge-stakes political maneuvering for what most of us believe are evil purposes. And I'm sure it's not 45's idea.

[Hortensis]

2. The Kochtopus is also trying to break the black voting bloc,

and no doubt many other wealthy action groups on the right. Simple fact is, approximately a half of all blacks are conservative.

The same goes for many of the "identity groups" that choose to fight the hostilities toward them from the right by joining the Democratic Party. A conservative gay isn't an oddity, only a conservative gay who comes "out" to admit he supports the Republicans.

Targeted wooing will probably peel away a few, including Hispanic voters, even as racially motivated attacks on immigrants escalate. But only a few.

Watch for attempts to create further rifts between the groups that make up the Democratic Party. Most of those posted right here on DU have, of course, been attempts to break away the "Bernie faction."