The entire premise of this tweet is that you can't be both black and progressive.
I'm black and progressive, why would I support cutting HBCU funding? Why would I be stupid enough to believe racist America is a meritocracy?
I thought the point of the tweet was to show that Progressive > Black. Kinda like when Bernie was on the House floor told everyone, very correctly, that the Crime Bill didn't solve or even address the problem with gun and gang violence. And it was gonna do was exacerbate it and throw disproportionately thousands of black people in jail. And he said it was wrong. Then he voted for it anyway, because an amendment was added that heavily penalized domestic abuse toward women. Mind you, that was the whole point of the amendment.
In short, progressives will easily throw you under the bus, for the "greater good".