Fighting for the dream in Arkansas

Let's hope that we can add Arkansas to the in-state tuition list in 2009. The support of the black community will be key:

Lawrence Davis, chancellor of the predominantly black University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, compared the current plight of undocumented Hispanics to the plight of black students in the South before integration.
"How are you going to increase the percentage of baccalaureate degrees if you've got a group of citizens who've been denied an education?" Davis said. "You realize that's the reason that most of the Southern states are at the bottom of the education spectrum anyway, right? Because they didn't educate African Americans through the years."

The rest of the article is here.