Jason Riley wrote in The Wall Street Journal on September 28, 2010. Selective HBCUs lag behind “decent state schools like the University of Texas at Austin, never mind a Stanford or Yale.” Riley had pulled out the familiar weapon safeguarding space racism and menacing Black spaces: unfairly comparing Black spaces to substantially richer White spaces. The endowment of the richest HBCU, Howard, was forty-five times less than the University of Texas at Austin’s endowment in 2020, never mind being forty-one and forty-four times less than the endowment of Stanford and Yale, respectively. The racial
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