Taking A Stand

Whether the glass appears half full or half empty, it’s an easier to argue that the haves and have nots are somehow equal. At least that is what we have come to accept because the influencers are selling this rationale. The climate in the American higher education system is tainted with half truths and some media sources have programmed us to believe the allegories being perpetrated on us. In America, the half full glass has been tilted so far that the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities seem to be under a silent death march to oblivion. At least that’s what the consensus is in the college community and our own communities. 
How did it get to this point? There is a lot of finger pointing going on and endless logic that goes strangely unchallenged by the masses or just ignored due to the changing tides of public opinion.
James L. Carter, the highly regarded blogger whose HBCU Digest has a finger on the pulse and heart of Black College perspectives, recently shared a statement from Chancellor Elwood Robinson, Winston-Salem State University’s eloquent leader who takes on an elitist publication that ranks “the best colleges to attend in America.” Much debate circles around this annual listing that unilaterally decides who makes the list.
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