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Post by AggiePride on Feb 1, 2022 13:21:00 GMT -5
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Post by Maxell on Feb 1, 2022 13:31:15 GMT -5
Chancellor Martin has explicitly asks alumni groups to pursue this in court because he can't do it himself as a university chancellor. I'm not sure if anyone is working on this or not. $2.8 billion is a lot of money and that's just back to 1987. I've called our State Representative and she's essentially put it on the Board of Governors. This has to be addressed. Has anyone spoken to the Alumni Association?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2022 13:40:13 GMT -5
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Feb 1, 2022 13:47:15 GMT -5
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Feb 1, 2022 14:09:55 GMT -5
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Post by bluehaze on Feb 1, 2022 14:26:58 GMT -5
Just imagine what a fourth of what was owed to us was provided. Massive infrastructure upgrades.
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Post by Maxell on Feb 1, 2022 18:00:03 GMT -5
The key thing to note is that the schools did not sue the state. A group of alumni did.The state must now finalize a settlement agreement by June with the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, a group of graduates of the historically Black institutions who sued the state in 2006.
They got pro bono work from The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and pro bono counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP represent a group of current and former students from four historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland, who claim the state deliberately underfunded and undermined the academic programs at their schools. The students argue that Maryland let other state colleges duplicate programs that had previously attracted a diverse student body to the HBCU’s, and therefore, directly impeded enrollment at the HBCU schools. www.lawyerscommittee.org/securing-justice-for-four-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-in-maryland/ |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2022 19:06:25 GMT -5
The key thing to note is that the schools did not sue the state. A group of alumni did.The state must now finalize a settlement agreement by June with the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, a group of graduates of the historically Black institutions who sued the state in 2006.
They got pro bono work from The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and pro bono counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP represent a group of current and former students from four historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland, who claim the state deliberately underfunded and undermined the academic programs at their schools. The students argue that Maryland let other state colleges duplicate programs that had previously attracted a diverse student body to the HBCU’s, and therefore, directly impeded enrollment at the HBCU schools. www.lawyerscommittee.org/securing-justice-for-four-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-in-maryland/HBCU alumni also pushed the issue in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. |
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Post by Freeze on Feb 1, 2022 21:36:22 GMT -5
It's one of the shortsighted legacies of the civil rights movement...earlier organizations were so locked in to the idea of integration that we failed to make demands for restorative justice that would address how Black institutions were crippled and undercut while living under "separate but equal." It was NEVER equal and that is abundantly clear.
Pay us what you owe us.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Feb 2, 2022 17:40:11 GMT -5
It's one of the shortsighted legacies of the civil rights movement...earlier organizations were so locked in to the idea of integration that we failed to make demands for restorative justice that would address how Black institutions were crippled and undercut while living under "separate but equal." It was NEVER equal and that is abundantly clear. Pay us what you owe us. Amen! As a product of the "separate but unequal" era, I can be a witness in this case. I hope this movement gets rolling before the racist politicians bury it again! |
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Post by marchingband1969 on Feb 2, 2022 17:46:17 GMT -5
It's one of the shortsighted legacies of the civil rights movement...earlier organizations were so locked in to the idea of integration that we failed to make demands for restorative justice that would address how Black institutions were crippled and undercut while living under "separate but equal." It was NEVER equal and that is abundantly clear. Pay us what you owe us. I want to cut our past civil rights leaders some slack. They were so eager to get the white man's knee off our neck they forgot to ask for reparations. Now that we can finally breathe it's time to tell them to bring us our money 💰 |
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Post by oldschool on Feb 2, 2022 19:06:05 GMT -5
It's one of the shortsighted legacies of the civil rights movement...earlier organizations were so locked in to the idea of integration that we failed to make demands for restorative justice that would address how Black institutions were crippled and undercut while living under "separate but equal." It was NEVER equal and that is abundantly clear. Pay us what you owe us. I want to cut our past civil rights leaders some slack. They were so eager to get the white man's knee off our neck they forgot to ask for reparations. Now that we can finally breathe it's time to tell them to bring us our money 💰 Yea we need to cut them a lot of slack , I believe they were more realistic than a lot of our present day activist . I hear it all the time "man I would have done this or that" , and I usually tell them and "yo azz would have been hanging from a tree while they sat around eating hot dogs and taking pictures". Let's keep it real they did what they could at that time ,now it's our turn to finish the job . It's been said by our chancellor and a lot of others , the alumni need to get our butts in gear and handle this ,enough lip service . |
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 22, 2022 10:41:02 GMT -5
From the article:
This is as important as anything the school is undertaking right now imo.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 22, 2022 13:26:32 GMT -5
So on one hand, we need the state legislature to come off the $3 billion dollars that they owe us ... ASAP.
But at the same time, Martin is currently trying to play nice with the Republicans in Raleigh and convince them to increase our annual funding.
That seems like a delicate balance to strike.
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Post by Maxell on Feb 22, 2022 14:34:58 GMT -5
Maybe, but the $3 billion comes via a lawsuit. The terms of the lawsuit should layout how future expenditures are allocated also. The lawsuit should be brought by those harmed by the underfunding (us).
The annual negotiation by Martin is necessary but incremental. A lawsuit of this sort is transformational. The Chairman of the BOT mentioned this in passing at the end of the meeting last week as something that was important.
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