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January 19, 2006

Brain drain result of favoring whites?

Northwest Indiana Comical Politics raises the specter of racism in Indiana's higher educational system.

To make it clear, I do not have any reason to believe that any trustee of Purdue or IU is a racist individually. On the other hand, for forty plus years, the system has been so structured to favor the higher education of Hoosier whites, out-of-state whites, and foreign students over Hoosier Hispanics and African-Americans. Although this may not be strictly speaking racist, the system also favors white children of college graduates over first generation whites attending universities. an important discrimination against NWI and Fort Wayne.

The consequence to the State is continuous economic depression, loss of population, brain drain, and loss of national political clout.

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The institutional racism is an indisbutable fact because the main centers for educating Hoosier minorities, NWI, receives annually about $4,000 less per student than Indianapolis and about $7,000 less than Bloomington and West Lafayette. The reason for this is the historical funding structure created 40 years ago; and when you add a fixed % to everyone the differences do not change.

Year in and year out, Blacks and Hispanics are provided less money for their higher education in Indiana by the system that is set up to fund these institutions. Only the Trustees can change this. But the push must come for the people, the minorities who are affected.

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