Another Clueless Move By HBCU Administrators

Here we go again!! While not an alumni of Howard University, there has always been a high respect for this HBCU.  Attending a higher education institution is expected to develop critical thinking skills that lead to reasonable decisions. But, sadly inviting James Comey as a key note speaker at Howard University just as inviting Betsey Devos as a key note speaker at Bethune Cookman University give serious consideration to the reasonable thinking abilities of those HBCU presidents and administrators who made such ludacrous decisions. The Betsy Devos issue has already been written about as noted below in the link. However, on the James Comey matter, the question is, how could Wayne Frederick and his administrators invite such a controversial person who headed an agency that has always been hostile to Black causes for so many years. Furthermore, Comey is considered as the main contributing factor to the loss of the Democratic candidate, Hilary Clinton, a party that Blacks have greatly supported for generations.  Given these circumstances, are Howard University's President and administrators simply clueless?
Betsey Devos Heckled at Bethune Cookman University

Bethune Cookman University - Student Voices Matter

Student voices certainly do matter which was demonstrated when Betsy Devos visited Bethune Cookman University. The university's administration had an opportunity to avoid such a major public embarrassment if they had only given consideration to the voices of the main stakeholders - the 6000 students who signed the petition. Any intentions of having Devos as the graduation speaker to bring more recognition to the university backfired. But, why would the Black administration not give consideration to the students' concerns when Devos has never taken Black students or HBCUs into consideration in her financial schemes? Instead, the Bethune Cookman's administration took the authoritative position of ignoring so many students' concerns. The university, Betsy Devos, and even Omaroso Manigault, with egg on their faces, will never look back with fond memories at the 2017 Bethune Cookman University graduation where students defied their administrations' failure to do what is right for their students and in the name of the great civil rights activist, Mary Bethune-Cookman. Good to see that activism is still alive among Black students!