I just happened to check my blog before I went to bed, and I remembered this passage from the letter that Howard President H. Patrick Swygert wrote on Monday (which I talked about in the Milloy/Howard controversy yesterday):

Our students are extremely aware and continue, in the finest tradition of the University, to be at the forefront in the quest for social justice and equality for our community. In recent times, for example, they led the march to the Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan in Grutter vs. Bollinger.

Stop right there for a second and think about this:  is this REALLY something to be proud of?

Look at it from the perspective of an HBCU.  Howard is an overwhelmingly black school; hell, one of the most prestigious black schools in the country...yet you're marching in support for programs that will not only take good black students away from your institution in favor of majority white institutions, but will also keep black students out of your institution at the expense of letting white students in.

Race preference initatives work both ways, yanno.  At a HBCU, programs are being set up that will allow other races to have an advantage when applying for schools at the expense of the majority race. 

Now I think Howard is a private school, but a lot of HBCUs aren't.  And these programs are being implemented.

Don't believe me?  Ask Alabama State (upheld by the same federal district judge who threw out Georgia's Voter ID law, no less).

Thus, Howard was marching in favor of something that would hurt their bottom line, not help.  That is, unless they feel more white students and less black students at Howard is actually a good thing.

I wouldn't be so eager to run around telling people this, if I were them.