Image is very important because of America’s historic racist history. Thus, TSU was institutionally created out of a racist mind-set. The concept of separate, but equal was nev- er equal. Black Texans were not permitted to attend the University of Texas. What an ungodly shame. Even though tax dollars are green, not Black or White. For example, in 1946 Herman M. Sweatt, a Black man, applied for admission to UT’s Law School, and was automatically denied admission solely based upon race. Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, UT attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for Black law school students.
The main question is whether the UT scheme violated the Equal Protection Clause/ Rules of the 14th Amendment? Thanks be to God the Supreme Court unanimously issued a decision for Sweatt’s admission to the UT Law School. The Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal is, by nature, unequal. Hence, since its founding in (1927) TSU has never been equitably funded by the state of Texas! In 2025, did the state of Texas decree that Texas Southern is an academic plantation system that must have White Overseers? TSU’s Board of Regents has nine members. If the desire of the state of Texas was to place a majority block of five Whites on TSU’s Board of Regents creating an image of an academic plantation system, it would have been intellectually more honest to place TSU in the UT System and increase its funding appropriations.
In fact, the recent appointment of a majority White Board of Regents is a blatant ungodly insult to the intellectual character and integrity of the historicity of TSU. Let it be clearly understood, I am not a racist. Nor are Black people racists. Racism requires the socio-economic ability to deny individuals access to power resources. It seems obvious that Blacks do not possess the power resources to keep Whites from doing anything socio-economically they desire to do. Moreover, racism involves possessing and using institutional power to discriminate and deny access to resources.
Once again, Blacks do not possess the institutional power to discriminate against nor deny anyone anything, especially Whites! Factually, Blacks did not receive the decreed/ promised forty acres and a mule (reparations), and there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it.
Great institutions of higher learning excel at teaching and learning: faculty and student development. The primary role of the Board of Regents is to enact/establish policies and procedures that govern the administrative processes of the teaching and learning environment. Of course, fund raising is an essential responsibility of the Board of Regents. Therefore, a first-class higher education institution is built upon moral
