DailyKenn.com — A brick wall in Baltimore, Maryland has been razed. The wall separated Morgan State University from the neighboring community. The school was founded as a black institution at a time, we are told, when blacks were not allowed access to higher education.
The neighboring community was white.
Formed in 1867 as Centenary Biblical Institute, it was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan. Morgan donated the land to the school.
The media calls it the "spite" wall built. Why was it built?
It may have been constructed to protect black students from pervasive white supremacy that, we are told, is our nation's legacy. Perhaps it was built to provide a safe space to white neighbors who feared being victims of black crime.
There are other walls.
Colleges and universities throughout the USA are perpetually constructing "walls" of segregation. They call them "safe spaces." I call them contemporary "spite walls". These are designated areas where non-whites are allowed and whites are banned.
Why are these contemporary "spite" segregation walls being built?
Marxists among us continue to portray Western culture as the epitome of systemic racism. In the Marxist paradigm, whites are the oppressing bourgeois and non-whites are the oppressed proletariat.
Consider this...
Morgan State University is one of many schools created to educate blacks at a time when blacks, we are told, were denied access to education.
Other examples include...
Gilbert Academy was founded in New Orleans, Louisiana to provide education for black high school students orphaned by the Civil War. It was founded in 1863 as an orphanage and morphed into a college preparatory school. It closed in 1949 just as "progressives" were rescuing blacks from white oppression.
The Institute Catholique was also founded in New Orleans at a time when blacks were allegedly denied access to education. The school was created in 1848 — the height of the "racist" antebellum era (1832-1860) — to educate free black orphans. That was a year prior to public education being made available to white children in the city. The school was funded from a trust established in the will of Madame Marie Couvent, the African-born widow of Bernard Couvent, a wealthy black citizen who prospered at a time when, we are told, blacks were denied access to wealth.
The Institute Catholique was shuttered in 1919. Like Gilbert Academy, the school closed as woke "progressives" began rescuing blacks from systemic white racism.
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