Apple hosts an industry program for students from historically Black colleges and universities

I would suggest closing the comment section for this story.  

dtownwarrior said:

I would suggest closing the comment section for this story.  

We'll see.

Do you know if anyone in this country will do it for other races? As you call others brown/red/yellow. We are all left out. Maybe it’s time to end this already getting old. Everyone in history has been treated wrong by others who fear or lack of knowledge and humanity are who need the education. Not saying it is bad to help others but come on really? Most were born after 1960’s when things started improving. Unless you were born directly affected by this so called reparations to make things right they should not be done. All help should be given on actual needs including access to education, not just certain groups. I could be wrong but it just gets old to me. I work hard to prove I am as capable as the next person and I feel a sense of pride to do it. There will always be racism and discrimination. There is in every single country. USA has gotten way better than 60 years ago. Time to stop free hand outs to feel better and people need to deserve things because of there actual merits and not anymore. My ancestors were this and that so I deserve to own everything for free and give give give. 

☝️  There it is!  Didn't take long.

dtownwarrior said:

I would suggest closing the comment section for this story.  

And then the racists when. They overwhelm with off-topic, idiotic statements. I suggest not feeding them and report them when they violate the rules/TOS of AI.

Back on topic: HBCUs are not exclusively for Black students. The "H" in HBCU stands for historically. Indeed, there are several HBCUs that have become majority white post Brown v. Board of Education. The one that immediately comes to mind is Bluefield State in West Virginia. ~80% of its student population is white. When it was formed in 1895 it was exclusively for Black students of coal miners. It became quite successful educating Black students that were not allowed entrance in white state educational institutions. Bluefield still receives funds earmarked exclusively for HBCUs.

One of the reasons that Apple (and other companies) support HBCUs with primarily Black student populations is because racism still infects the education sector of states. IIRC, Maryland was found to have intentionally underfunded its sole state Black educational institute/HBCU for decades to the tune of $500M and counting.

Nationally about ~11-12% of HBCU students are white. Another 12% are Latinx/Asian/Native. And even international students attend HBCUs, including non-Black students.

One of my favorite photos about HBCUs shows Albert Einstein giving a lecture at Lincoln University after receiving an honorary degree:

In 1946, Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University where he gave a speech in which he called racism "a disease of white people," and added, "I do not intend to be quiet about it." Lincoln was the first school in the United States to grant college degrees to blacks. Einstein, who was Jewish, identified with the racial discrimination he witnessed towards African Americans in Princeton, New Jersey where he was a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Einstein experienced anti-Semitic threats during his time as a professor at the University of Berlin and chose not to return to his native Germany after the rise of the Nazi party. While at Lincoln, Einstein also received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity.