ronn

I don't need a debate. The choice is that clear: A proven track record for VP Harris who is up against a convicted felon that will do anything to avoid jail. All that talk about President Biden's cognitive decline while the traitor clearly has lost the few marbles he had. MSM want him to be as foul as possible to garner clicks and $$$.

dtownwarrior said:

I would suggest closing the comment section for this story.  

And then the racists when. They overwhelm with off-topic, idiotic statements. I suggest not feeding them and report them when they violate the rules/TOS of AI.

Back on topic: HBCUs are not exclusively for Black students. The "H" in HBCU stands for historically. Indeed, there are several HBCUs that have become majority white post Brown v. Board of Education. The one that immediately comes to mind is Bluefield State in West Virginia. ~80% of its student population is white. When it was formed in 1895 it was exclusively for Black students of coal miners. It became quite successful educating Black students that were not allowed entrance in white state educational institutions. Bluefield still receives funds earmarked exclusively for HBCUs.

One of the reasons that Apple (and other companies) support HBCUs with primarily Black student populations is because racism still infects the education sector of states. IIRC, Maryland was found to have intentionally underfunded its sole state Black educational institute/HBCU for decades to the tune of $500M and counting.

Nationally about ~11-12% of HBCU students are white. Another 12% are Latinx/Asian/Native. And even international students attend HBCUs, including non-Black students.

One of my favorite photos about HBCUs shows Albert Einstein giving a lecture at Lincoln University after receiving an honorary degree:

In 1946, Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University where he gave a speech in which he called racism "a disease of white people," and added, "I do not intend to be quiet about it." Lincoln was the first school in the United States to grant college degrees to blacks. Einstein, who was Jewish, identified with the racial discrimination he witnessed towards African Americans in Princeton, New Jersey where he was a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Einstein experienced anti-Semitic threats during his time as a professor at the University of Berlin and chose not to return to his native Germany after the rise of the Nazi party. While at Lincoln, Einstein also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity.

avon b7 said:

ronn said:

avon b7 said:

All I can say is wow! 

So China is a hostile power? You mean more hostile than the US? LOL. 

The absolute most horrifying thing about your 'justification' is that it is probably how Biden sees things too. 

Anyway. I have no need to continue with this as there is nothing more I can say. So I will rest my case.

This is a joke, right? 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/philippines-and-china-in-new-confrontation-at-scarborough-shoal

The Philippines has accused China of “dangerous maneuvers and obstruction” and reinstalling a barrier at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, which Beijing blockaded and seized from Manila in 2012.

Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spokesman Jay Tarriela said two Philippine vessels on maritime patrol encountered four China Coast Guard (CCG) ships and six vessels from its maritime militia in the area on Monday morning.

https://news.sky.com/story/why-has-the-south-china-sea-become-so-contentious-13126474

That's before you add in China's own extremely expansive claim - the nine-dash line which claims nearly the whole sea as theirs. That was rejected by an international tribunal, a decision which China rejected.

https://eastasiaforum.org/2024/03/22/southeast-asia-stymied-in-south-china-sea-dispute/

Regional claimant states — fatigued by ASEAN’s inability to resolve the dispute and facing the brunt of Chinese aggression — may increasingly forge ties among themselves. But such efforts are unlikely to compel China to halt its aggressive campaign in the SCS.

Those are disputes, and historical disputes at that. They often involve neighboring parties. You left out China/India disputes and a host of other border related disputes. 

There are dozens upon dozens of geographical disputes all over the world. The US has five maritime disputes with Canada. The US is involved in other disputes too. The UK, Spain, France... 

Sometimes disputes (wherever they may be) degrade into conflict and war. 

That has nothing to do with threatening stop a huge infrastructure project by sovereign nations on the other side of the world for which you have no connection at all just because you don't want it to happen. 

You are a lost cause. Buh-bye!

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