Historically Black college tears down ‘spite wall’



More than 80 years ago, a nearby mainly white community built an eight-foot wall to separate their neighborhood from the historically Black college Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. NBC’s Aaron Gilchrist explains how that decades-old symbol of segregation called the “spite wall” is now being torn down. 

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27 comments

  1. The college had out grown the wall anyway and it no longer even did anything.
    This is like if Rosa Parks got her seat because nobody used the bus anymore.
    This is not really a political win and more of a symbol of what should have been done sooner.

  2. Same as 2023. They don't want woke people. They'd rather have stupid, gun-toting people. Like the wild, wild west. Jeezuz.

  3. It should be left up, to block the stray bullets from the out of control gangs. It protected lives once, it can protect lives again.

  4. That is a good security barrier to protect the college from intruders.

  5. Just like the Berlin Wall, a small portion of the Baltimore "Spite Wall" should also be preserved to tell the history of why it was built just like those small portions of the Berlin Wall now do. This will prove that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a real thing.

  6. Hopefully this enlightens some of these "race critical" types out here when it comes to them talking trash about the black community. When we finish Hudson ghettos, and have had some of our people be thugs, prostitutes, or reliant on government assistance, we've been called reprobates, criminals and problems. But when we have gone to college, and have had colleges built that would accept us and allow us to become educated for better opportunities, we were consider an even bigger problem because of being seen as potential competition, and received significant protest and backlash for NOT being in hoods and ghettos as thugs, criminals, and reliant on government assistance. So when you as a people haven't been allowed to win for losing no matter what you do (except, of course, be slaves), maybe that's the reason there has been so much anger, unrest, and aggression within the black community. Yes, our community as a whole needs to be better, particularly for our own people. But I will say from experience, it is hard not to be the "angry black person" when your general experience has been other people angry about you existing while being anything but a slave.

  7. Trump would have use executive power to stop this …for sure.

  8. I would like the bricks to be used as bonfires or decorations for orchards as a symbol of new beginning s

  9. Someone please ask Meatball Ron if it's OK to teach this in Florida.

  10. Amazing how pale people put so much energy, time, money, effort, resources, materials, etc. Just to practice their racism in Amerikkka.
    Only goes to prove, who are the true righteous people of this nation.

  11. Keep the name but why not have a better building keep some pieces of his memorabilia

  12. more symbolic gestures and no practical solutions this is the Democrat moto. And stupid people eat it up like cake

  13. Are the white kids at this college allowed to form clubs based on skin color?

  14. I wonder…does that college teach the facts that there were more black slavers and slave owners than white slavers/slave owners? 🤔 That’s probably TOO MUCH truth to be taught.

  15. Imagine wanting to steal Native American land so bad you would put up with that kind of hatred.

    Landback

  16. How many all white colleges are there? Name one. That's what I thought. Double standards

  17. And trumpers have something new to rage about this week….they love their segregation walls.

  18. What a waste of time and resources, in a city that's as dirt poor as Baltimore, and when black colleges are already hard up for money………leave it as a historical reference, and spend the money on your college.

  19. I live in Baltimore & was Unaware of this history, WOW

  20. The dollar bill says " In God we trust", but same people who believe in God don't believe that God made everyone in same likeness and different color. Mental slavery….

  21. Where are the Caucasian Colleges???

  22. I want to know where the "WHITE" colleges are? 🙄🙄🙄

  23. The United States needs trillions upon trillions of historically Asian colleges and historically Mexican colleges

  24. Should’ve been done a long time ago 😮

  25. 🎉 the history that made America; & the history America made up 💥