According to MSNBC, in JACKSON, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.
At Jackson State University, students have turned to Twitter and Facebook to gather signatures on a petition to block the move proposed by the Republican governor. A half-dozen students attended a state College Board meeting Thursday expecting some discussion about the proposal, but there was none.
Why do the black schools have to merge? I feel like this is a cop out and the HBCU's are being used because they are an easy target. I hope these school continue to fight back before this plan is offical. Its bad enough HBCU's don't recieve as much funding as mainstream school, now you want to squeeze them all together? Who benefits from that, certainlly not the students attending these HBCU's.
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