This was taken from <i>The New York Age</i>, April 18, 1907.
<div align="center"><font size="5"><b>Would Not Teach Negroes</b></font>
<font size="3"><b>Fifteen Texas Legislators Vote to Close a School For Them</b></font></div>
<blockquote>April 14 -- Representative R.M. Brown of Wharton county made a motion in the lower house of the Legislature yesterday to strike out the entire appropriation for the support of the Prairie View Normal College for Negroes. <b>He said that the educated Negro was a greater menace to the country than the ignorant Negro and that it was the man who knew something more than the ordinary that incited race troubles and riots.</b>
"The educated Negro has only three ambitions," said Mr. Brown, "to teach, to preach, or to get into the penitentiary for forgery."
He added that he would like to see the torch applied to the walls of Prairie View Normal as he was opposed to placing tools in the hands of Negroes that might cause a clash that would end only in the shedding of the blood of thousands.
Fifteen members voted with Mr. Brown, although he stated that he expected no member to vote with him.</blockquote>
This is exactly why I know that when I have children they <b>will</b> attend a historically Black college or university. I spent the first 17 years of my life being that 2% in every lily white classroom and school and it wasn't until I attended Spelman College that I truly developed a love for myself, my race, and recognized my own potential. These are strictly my <b>opinions</b>, but I feel that attending an HBCU greatly enhanced MY overall being.
<div align="center"><font size="5"><b>Would Not Teach Negroes</b></font>
<font size="3"><b>Fifteen Texas Legislators Vote to Close a School For Them</b></font></div>
<blockquote>April 14 -- Representative R.M. Brown of Wharton county made a motion in the lower house of the Legislature yesterday to strike out the entire appropriation for the support of the Prairie View Normal College for Negroes. <b>He said that the educated Negro was a greater menace to the country than the ignorant Negro and that it was the man who knew something more than the ordinary that incited race troubles and riots.</b>
"The educated Negro has only three ambitions," said Mr. Brown, "to teach, to preach, or to get into the penitentiary for forgery."
He added that he would like to see the torch applied to the walls of Prairie View Normal as he was opposed to placing tools in the hands of Negroes that might cause a clash that would end only in the shedding of the blood of thousands.
Fifteen members voted with Mr. Brown, although he stated that he expected no member to vote with him.</blockquote>
This is exactly why I know that when I have children they <b>will</b> attend a historically Black college or university. I spent the first 17 years of my life being that 2% in every lily white classroom and school and it wasn't until I attended Spelman College that I truly developed a love for myself, my race, and recognized my own potential. These are strictly my <b>opinions</b>, but I feel that attending an HBCU greatly enhanced MY overall being.