I know I’m big on grammar and every day I see something on FB that tells me I need to never be on there cause they don’t give af about grammar.
I thought using “no” instead of “know” or using “are” instead of “our” was bad
But today I saw “gel” instead of “jail”
Mike Epps awkwardly brings up Kevin Hart while asking Katt Williams about their current relationship, following the comedians putting their longtime feud behind them during The Roast of Kevin Hart on Netflix.
(Source: Listen and Laugh w/ Ice Cube and Mike Epps)
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Listen, man. I know I'm only one person, and people are going to feel the way they feel ultimately about Stephen A. Smith doing this interview. He's going to be a rich, powerful, and wealthy man regardless, but I've made HBCU advocacy and being a part of HBCU media my literal job.
Seeing these lies propagated without any pushback is enraging me.
1) He did not provide a record amount of funding for HBCUs. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden provided more money to HBCUs.
He did not provide a record level of funding for HBCUs (both Obama and Biden allocated more). Trump's claim relies on the FUTURE Act of 2019, but that law just permanently renewed existing funding that had briefly lapsed—it didn't create a new, record-setting pot of money.
2) HBCUs were not failing before Donald Trump got into office and set aside that money. That's flagrantly false and disrespectful to HBCUs. Yes, HBCUs are under-resourced because many have been underfunded by state and local governments for decades, but HBCUs, as institutions across the nation, were not about to go bankrupt.
Especially given the fact that Trump's administration followed the Barack Obama administration, and then this second one followed record investment by the Biden administration
3) In February 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order to move the White House Initiative of HBCUs from under the Department of Education to directly under the White House. I know this for a fact because months later, I was a White House HBCU All Star in the 2017-2018 school year (now called White House Scholars).
President Biden did move it back under the Department of Education, but it doesn't really matter what it is under if Trump isn't doing anything remotely meaningful with said initiative (outside of using it as his get-out-of-jail-free card when talking about these supposed things he's done for the Black community).
4) President Joe Biden had a board of advisors for HBCUs that featured Delaware State president Dr. Tony Allen as the leader of that board. They convened regularly. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also invited HBCU presidents to the White House during this same time.
So saying Democrats didn't do that is patently false, but again, Stephen A. Smith isn't providing pushback.
I know this will be the one tweet that doesn't go viral or get anybody to like or retweet it, and I don't really care because I'm going to say what I have to say.
But I'm going to address this on my show next week. HBCU Pulse Radio. Don't worry about it.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after his affair raised national security concerns. The company named Colette Kress as interim CEO.
Shares of Nvidia, one of the largest companies in the world, plunged 10% in premarket trading Thursday. https://t.co/0z66yR7ZPZ
This is what happens when you let bigots write laws.
Florida’s anti-DEI law just came back to bite them in the ass. They were so busy trying to cancel everybody else’s culture, they ended up canceling their own parade. Oops.
📌 Delray Beach can no longer sponsor its beloved St. Patrick’s Day Parade because celebrating Irish heritage falls under the state’s sweeping restrictions on ethnicity-based programs.