realestateguru said:
Old duke has such a minuscule life.
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A&M's core problem (pun intended) is their culture produces followers, not leaders. The result of that problem is that in time of crisis, A&M struggles badly. Texas A&M is a dying institution. White, non-Hispanic males comprise 17% of births in the state of Texas. It is stunning to some of us that in 2020, a female still can't be a cheerleader. The school won't even allow a statue of their founder because he doesn't represent white, male privilege.
A&M's only hope of survival is for the legislature to install new leaders from the outside and empower them to make substantive changes to the culture of the institution. Otherwise, the people of Texas will eventually refuse to support the university.
The demographics of Texas have changed. A&M hasn't. Because the white, racist males who run that place won't allow it.
In 2019, John Sharp had to beg the legislature for an additional $80 million, yet they suddenly today have an extra $100 million for a cause they don't believe in (increased minority scholarships)? Never gonna happen. A "commission" to "consider" their shrine to the "great negro killer"? Three weeks later and, to my knowledge, not even one commission member named. Not impressive, but typically a g g y.
Sports accelerated desegregation on college campuses. Sports didn't accelerate integration. The ags very unwillingly implemented desegregation and have refused to promote integration. Integration involves change. Having promoted conformity and subservience for almost a century and a half, A&M has no leaders capable of managing their current crisis. Because A&M only produces followers.
Read the amicus brief of the Sweatt family in Fisher (II).* A person cannot support both Texas A&M and the best interests of the people of Texas. In fact, one's commitment to the interests of the state and people of Texas can reasonably be defined by the depth of one's commitment to end what Texas A&M stands for and represents. Which is institutionalized racism.
Here is an example of the depths of the institutionalized racism that defines Texas A&M - Texas A&M College Station campus and Prairie View were established and founded in the same years. Because of A&M's status as a branch of The University of Texas, and Prairie View's identical status as a branch of Texas A&M, both institutions are equally entitled to participate in the proceeds of the publicly funded University of Texas endowment (PUF). Texas A&M College Station campus represents itself as the wealthiest public university in the nation, (supposedly) with an endowment in excess of $13B (over four times that of UT Austin). The endowment of Prairie View is $82 million.
The alumni endowment contributions of A&M and Prairie View since 1876 have been, for all intents and purposes, identical. The difference is the publicly funded endowment money allocated to each institution by the A&M "leadership." The allocation of publicly-funded endowment proceeds between the two institutions by A&M "leadership" reflects the allocation of all resources by A&M "leadership" between the two institutions. This is "separate but equal" and institutionalized racism that defines Texas A&M.
A&M has been ranked in the top 50 by USNWR once (1997) in the school's history (and even then that ranking was because of very few programs and was not truly indicative of the university's educational offerings as a whole). The fat, white racist a g g y s in charge at A&M are ok with that, as long as they can continue to venerate white, male privilege as their highest cultural value and perpetuate the institutionalized racism that defines Texas A&M.
F them. The a g gy s deserve what they are about to get from those they have long **** upon. Personally, I hope the day of reckoning will be long, painful and humiliating for them. They have earned that fate.
As a wave of demographic change washes over that sewer of an institution, it is inevitable that A&M's institutionalized racism and misogyny will end. It is just a question of how much more damage the a g g y s will inflict on the people of Texas before it does end. The losers will be the fat, white racists that university has kowtowed to since 1871. The winners will be the people of Texas.
The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
*Sweatt family amicus brief: https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/legal-developments/legal-briefs/brief-of-the-sweatt-family-in-fisher-v.-university-of-texas/sweatt-family-amicus-brief-2012.pdf
Sorry I'm late, just ventured over here, but Randy cites a brief
filed by the family of a person who had to fight to the Supreme Court to get admitted to sip law, is focused on admissions of sip and vestiges of segregation and racism, discussed how sip has struggled to change the perception that it is a white school, and mentions Texas A&M a total of two times -- relating to creation of PVAM and nothing else -- as support for his bashing of A&M?
That would be like a German citing a 1000-page book detailing Hitler's atrocities to bash Switzerland, because there are mentions of the Alps.