“That means something to HBCU people,” he said. While high-achieving Black Americans now went to Ivy League schools, Clyburn said, “People tend to forget that these people, their parents went to HBCUs, their grandparents went to HBCUs. When it comes to their grandparents, very few of them could have gone anywhere else.” Harris’s diploma was more than a degree. It carried political weight with the exact people Biden needed to show up to vote, Clyburn said.
