From Barbour to HBCUs and Women College: Screw You and Here is a Bird To Go With It.

Okay, I have heard some rants and raves in Mississippi in years, but this one tips the cake. I remember AverageBro talking about Obama does not care for our HBCUs, but I also see he is not the only one. Check this out from a “somewhat” 2012 presidential nominee Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money.

Barbour, in announcing his budget recommendations Monday, said Mississippi University for Women should merge with nearby Mississippi State University and that Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State be merged into Jackson State.

Barbour said none of the campuses would close.

The Democratic chairman of the House Universities and Colleges Committee, Rep. Kelvin Buck, opposes the Republican governor's proposal. Buck says Mississippi would hurt its own economic future by limiting higher education.

Barbour's consolidation proposal is part of his suggested budget for the fiscal year that begins next July 1.

I mean talking about killing the HBCU and women’s college, he is planning on giving African-American and Women College the lethal injection. Oh and chopping the public school from 108 to 100. It seems like this guy do not care about Mississippi. Each College has a rich tradition and a legacy that is a combined over 300 years. Alcorn State University represents the Southwest part of Mississippi, MUW is a rich tradition for Mississippi women just like Spellman for African American women and other women's colleges, and Mississippi Valley State is the Mecca of the Delta when it comes to institutions of higher learning. It comes to a factor that Politicians from Mississippi do not care about education, nor jobs, or expanding the state. They just want to make it a rest haven for just being poor. Yes, I am talking about every Mississippi politician from the U.S. Senators, the U.S. Representatives, State Senators, and the State Representatives. Mississippi neighboring states Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, are not even touching their public institution because that is what makes a better head for education and tradition. But for Mississippi, it is vice-versa. The rich gets rich and the poor will never have a shot at making it.

I am going to stay tuned. This is going to turn ugly in post-racial America.

Barbour: Merge Miss. universities