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In reply to the discussion: Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional [View all]Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)24. Carter first established a program to assist HBCUs in 1980..
Then in 1981, St Ronald Reagan established the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, expanding its funding. That's the program that Trump was referring to, I think.
https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/about-us/
Trump is throwing another 6-year-old style tantrum with his statement. His crap is getting kicked out at the Federal Court level as unconstitutional, so he thinks he can turn that back onto his opponents. And he thinks he's spiting a certain black gentleman by threatening HBCUs.
Next they'll say that Planned Parenthood shouldn't be funded because it discriminates against men!
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Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional [View all]
JHan
May 2017
OP
There has to be some kind of rule somewhere that says he has to have read it
Rhiannon12866
May 2017
#10
I keep thinking Trump should have taken Khizr Khan up on his offer to give him the one he carries
Rhiannon12866
May 2017
#18
It's horrible. Everything is being peeled back. A judge in Alabama just okayed a segregated...
brush
May 2017
#37
I guess that his meeting with the presidents of HBCUs early in his administration
TexasTowelie
May 2017
#7
People! Get with the game plan! If found $$ can be channeled to the 1%, it will be!
WinkyDink
May 2017
#19
Trump's looking for ways to allocate public funds to religious schools like Liberty University.
no_hypocrisy
May 2017
#26
Just another answer to his "What the hell do you have to lose?" rhetorical device.
rogue emissary
May 2017
#31