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location episode that we pre-recorded. Victor's going away for a week, but we don't want to leave our listeners songs Victor. So we're we're going to do a little bit of a shorter episode three topics in the first topic. Given some of the recent affirmative action rulings by the US Supreme Court will be historically black colleges and we'll get Victor's thoughts on that on a plethora of trans in San

Hannity and if we have time the new movie that's out of the sound of freedom with Jim Cabizel being attacked by the left will do that right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hansen show. You know, Victor, I'm going to ramble. I know the drive I listen is mad. I don't have a clear thought on this or on anything, but you might. But in the, you know, we have been our nation has been struggling with affirmative action as a policy, particularly as it applies.

To higher ed, of course, it applies another many other ways in our in American society, but the Supreme Court.

You know, gave a blow to affirmative action in its recent ruling against Harvard and University of North Carolina, you know, Victor and some of the reaction to that has been, oh, this is going to be drastic.

It's a terrible awful for students of color, black American, where they, you know, how are they going to get et cetera, et cetera.

And it's dawn dawn on me, you know, there is this really significant network of black colleges, historical black colleges in America, there's about 120 of them.

And I don't know, Victor, I just, I don't know if you have any general thoughts about them, but you know, here we have.

Here we have race based colleges, which I don't know in in as in conservative principle, you know, should we have them, the fact is they're here, and they've been many have been here for quite a while.

They are institutions dedicated to help black college students to get degrees and advanced degrees.

I have a feeling they're kind of treated shabbily and, you know, the great money bags that want to dump.

Additional dough on Harvard and Yale to make their already ghastly and diamonds even bigger have an option, maybe make these historical black colleges, better institutions.

I think Donald Trump actually allocated some significant money to them through the federal budget, but Victor, they're there.

I think in some way they expose the left, maybe I'm wrong.

Do you have any thoughts about this?

Well, the way that they navigate in this environment that is very different than their birth, and we remember they emerge because black young people were not given a fair shake to get into superior white schools that had more resources.

It was a self-help idea, and anybody reads, you know, Booker T Washington up from slavery, it's brilliant.

And so everybody supported them, and then as blacks began in the civil rights movement to get parity and to be admitted to whites, then there was, they had a falling off of some enrollment, obviously, because they were no longer the only came in town.

And now people have questioned the need for them because not only were blacks given equal opportunity, but since 1964 or five, they were given preference into state schools.

So how did they function enough?

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