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Black people’s long continuing struggle in KY higher education

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Ricky L. Jones

On April 13 at midday, Simmons College of Kentucky President Dr. Kevin Cosby and I’ll collect a small, however highly effective and expert group of Black students and academic directors on the St. Stephen Family Life Center (1508 W. Kentucky St.) in Louisville to debate the previous, current and way forward for Blacks in Kentucky higher education. It is a much-needed dialog.

Like America, Kentucky’s higher education system has a troubling historic observe report the place its therapy of Blacks is anxious. It is a narrative stuffed with transient moments of progress nearly all the time adopted by virulent white recoil and revenge. 

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None of the state’s establishments of higher studying admitted Blacks in the nineteenth century, with the notable exception of trailblazing Berea College till it was focused by Kentucky’s “Day Law.” Tim Jordan writes, “An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School” was launched in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1904 by Breathitt County Rep. Carl Day. The intent of the laws (which turned often called the Day Law) was easy and sinister; it will prohibit interracial education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.”

In the tip, the Day Law was profitable. Berea resisted and fought all the best way to the Supreme Court. Brave Berea in the end misplaced, and Kentucky’s racial viciousness as soon as once more received.

The Bluegrass state’s mean-spiritedness prolonged properly past Berea. Much of it has been misplaced to historical past. For occasion, few bear in mind the story of how the University of Louisville coldly fired all of the Black professors from its Black department, Louisville Municipal College, save one (Dr. Charles Parrish) when U of L was lastly compelled to combine in the Fifties.

Today, although U of L proclaimed in 2020 that it aspired to turn into the “nation’s premier anti-racist university,” it nonetheless homes a shamefully paltry variety of underpaid, under-resourced, overworked and sometimes lonely Black professors. Its Black Studies division, one of many nation’s oldest, has been negatively impacted by curriculum and budget-model adjustments in addition to college shrinkage with little to no institutional aid.    

Even a cursory research of historical past proves Black individuals have been the primary targets of exclusion and persecution in America’s and Kentucky’s higher education programs. Unfortunately, actions comparable to “multiculturalism” earlier than the flip of the century and now “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DE&I) have, deliberately or unintentionally, obscured that reality and present wants in injurious methods. Both have had a lumping impact that crushes Black struggling right into a broader, extra obscure and unmanageable “people of color” class. As a end result, any group that’s “non-white” has been pitted in opposition to each other for consideration and restricted sources. 

If one factors out that Blacks have been particularly focused and due to this fact deserve particular consideration, options and recompence, she or he will usually be accused of being in opposition to range, overly involved with Black points, and even racist. Those are lies, in fact, however they’re deployed simply the identical. 

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After nationwide outrage quickly spilled over the dams of tolerance, rationalization and justification after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in 2020, some proclaimed a “national white awakening.” White-dominated firms and academic establishments launched compulsory statements supporting Black individuals and rushed to rent DE&I officers. “We didn’t know it was this bad,” they mentioned. “We were blind. We finally get it. We must and will do better,” they promised.

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