Floyd Flake: “I rise today to talk about another kind of assault, that is, the assault against Howard University, and by implication…”

“I rise today to talk about another kind of assault, that is, the assault against Howard University, and by implication, many other historically black colleges and universities. Even the Anti-Defamation League has stated that of the 122 anti-Semitic incidents that have been recorded, only 3 of them were on the campuses of black universities. In 81 colleges last year there were reports made including Yale and Harvard and Columbia, Brigham Young universities. None of them were from African-American colleges. I think it is time for us to stop applying a double standard, a standard against Howard University and against African-American universities which is not appropriate. Mr. Speaker, it is my hope that we will be fair to Howard and understand that students on all campuses voice their opinions and have their meetings. Even at Howard, when the meeting was held, only 100 students from Howard were present among 2,000 people. Let us stop demonizing Howard. Let us stop demonizing African-American colleges.”