Some HBCU's are named after white people

[Skooby]

http://hiphoprepublican.blogspot.com/2009/04/republicans-founded-historically-black.html?m=1


Republicans Founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities


Most people do not know that it was white Republicans who financed, funded and sponsored the colleges and universities for African Americans in the 1800s and early 1900s, while Democrats, with brutal force, opposed every effort made by Republicans to educate African Americans.
Billionaire John D. Rockefeller was the Republican philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to black colleges. Henry L. Morehouse and Laura Spelman are two white Republicans who worked very hard to establish and maintain some of our historically black colleges.

Laura Spelman’s work with black schools and colleges had a profound influence on both her husband and her son, John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In 1902, father and son set up a General Education Board to assist Southern black schools. By the end of the first decade, the board had donated more than $33 million toward furthering the goals of black education. By 1921, they had donated an additional $96 million for education. Black schools and colleges were the recipients of some of this money as well.

Spelman College, established for African American women, bears the name this devout Christian woman.

Henry L. Morehouse was the Executive Secretary of the Home Mission Society, an organization that financed and started many of the first black schools and colleges. Morehouse received national recognition when a prominent black college in Atlanta, Georgia, the Augusta Institute, decided to honor him by naming their school after him (Morehouse College).

Atlanta University’s founder and first president (1867-1885) was Republican Edmund Asa Ware, who had been converted to abolitionism as a young man by reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

The founder of Fisk University was Republican Erastus M. Cravath. Cravath had been brought up by his abolitionist father and had attended two integrated colleges.

The following is a list of some of the black schools and colleges that were founded by prominent Republicans in the face of opposition from Democrats.

Morehouse College 1867 Atlanta, GA
Howard University 1867 Washington, DC
Spelman College 1881 Atlanta, GA
Shaw University 1865 Raleigh, NC
Fisk University 1866 Nashville, TN
Atlanta University 1867 Atlanta, GA
Virginia Union University 1899 Richmond, VA
Straight University 1869 New Orleans, LA
Talladega College 1867 Talladega, AL
Clark University 1870 Atlanta, GA
Meharry Medical College 1867 Nashville, TN
Morgan College 1867 Baltimore, MD
New Orleans University 1873 New Orleans LA
Philander Smith College 1883 Little Rock AR
Rust College 1883 Holy Spring MS
Samuel Houston College 1900 Austin, TX

 

[calixprynce]

What happened to the Republicans? Seems like roles switched over the years

 

[Drunken Cop]

makes sense. a lot of HBCU's were created for the offspring of slave masters and bed wenches

I'm still a proud HBCU grad. wouldn't trade it for anything.

 

[newworldafro]

Yeah, I've attended at least one of those

And they teach you that history, in a 1 credit hour class, that the founder(s) were white guys that wanted to help build academies for former slaves. You could make the argument they just wanted black folks to do technical and agricultural work for their own ends too. Deep stuff.

I am shocked by the Rockefellers having such a hand in some of these schools ... History is motherphocker

This is why I look at this Confederate flag thing with nuanced eye, cause you can't/shouldn't erase history, you have to learn from it, and make sure the worst parts of it don't rear their ugly head again. They taking off Henry Louis Gates show on PBS about people's ancestors cause the Confederate flag situation, is just cornball

 

[mortuus est]

white man is the devil tho

 

[Supreme HD]

white man is the devil tho

he is

 

[HideoKojima]

What happened to the Republicans? Seems like roles switched over the years

That's exactly what happened, parties swapped platforms. That's why I found it weird when today's republicans claim these accomplishments from guys who were pretty liberal and don't share the same politcal views as them.

 

[aXiom]

Yeah, I've attended at least one of those

And they teach you that history, that the founder(s) where white guys that wanted to help build academies for former slaves. You could make the argument they just wanted black folks to do technical and agricultural work for their own ends too. Deep stuff.

I am shocked by the Rockefellers having such a hand in some of these schools ... History is motherphocker

This is why I look at this Confederate flag thing with nuanced eye, cause you can't/shouldn't erase history, you have to learn from it, and correct the worst parts of it. They taking off Henry Louis Gates show about people's ancestors cause the Confederate flag situation, is just cornball

The flag fiasco ain't about erasing history.. the flag should have been retired to a museum decades ago.. It stayed around long enough to become a vigil of hatred sugar coated in "history" to a new generation of racists who couldn't have any less of a clue about it... It took a massacre of 9 people in a church in 2015 to even bring up the subject of retiring it.. think about that.

 

[MAKAVELI25]

The flag fiasco ain't about erasing history.. the flag should have been retired to a museum decades ago.. It stayed around long enough to become a vigil of hatred sugar coated in "history" by a new generation of racists who couldn't have any less of a clue about it.

They know EXACTLY what the flag is about. Don't let the false naivete fool you, the Confederate flag being paraded as a harmless symbol of history is bullshyt. Everybody knows exactly what type of message they are proclaiming when they project it as a symbol

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Yeah, I've attended at least one of those

And they teach you that history, in a 1 credit hour class, that the founder(s) were white guys that wanted to help build academies for former slaves. You could make the argument they just wanted black folks to do technical and agricultural work for their own ends too. Deep stuff.

I am shocked by the Rockefellers having such a hand in some of these schools ... History is motherphocker

This is why I look at this Confederate flag thing with nuanced eye, cause you can't/shouldn't erase history, you have to learn from it, and make sure the worst parts of it don't rear their ugly head again. They taking off Henry Louis Gates show on PBS about people's ancestors cause the Confederate flag situation, is just cornball

man fukk them

 

[aXiom]

They know EXACTLY what the flag is about. Don't let the false naivette fool you, the Confederate flag being paraded as a harmless symbol of history is bullshyt. Everybody knows exactly what type of message they are proclaiming when they project it as a symbol

Nah.. I know they know.. what I meant was, those who go around parading it as symbol of "history" would probably fail a pop quiz on the real history of the flag

 

[Skooby]

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...his-cruel-war-was-over/396482/?fb_ref=Default

Louisiana:

As a separate republic, Louisiana remembers too well the whisperings of European diplomacy for the abolition of slavery in the times of annexation not to be apprehensive of bolder demonstrations from the same quarter and the North in this country. The people of the slave holding States are bound together by the same necessity and determination to preserve African slavery.

Texas:

...in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states....

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Even after the war, as the Lost Cause rose, many veterans remained clear about why they had rallied to the Confederate flag. “I’ve never heard of any other cause than slavery,” wrote Confederate commander John S. Mosby. The progeny of the Confederacy repeatedly invoked slavery as the war’s cause.

Here, for example, is Mississippi Senator John Sharp Williams in 1904:

Local self-government temporarily destroyed may be recovered and ultimately retained. The other thing for which we fought is so complex in its composition, so delicate in its breath, so incomparable in its symmetry, that, being once destroyed, it is forever destroyed. This other thing for which we fought was the supremacy of the white man’s civilization in the country which he proudly claimed his own; “in the land which the Lord his God had given him;” founded upon the white man’s code of ethics, in sympathy with the white man’s traditions and ideals.

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The Confederate Veteran again in 1911:

The African, coming from a barbarous state and from a tropical climate, could not meet the demands for skilled labor in the factories of the Northern States; neither could he endure the severe cold of the Northern winter. For these reasons it was both merciful and “business” to sell him to the Southern planter, where the climate was more favorable and skilled labor not so important. In the South the climate, civilization, and other influences ameliorated the African’s condition, and that of almost the entire race of slaves, which numbered into the millions before their emancipation. It should be noted that their evangelization was the most fruitful missionary work of any modern Christian endeavor. The thoughtful and considerate negro of to-day realizes his indebtedness to the institution of African slavery for advantages which he would not have received had he remained in his semi-barbarism waiting in his native jungles for the delayed missionary.