Democrat overseers are pleased.
Via dcist
When Howard University students entered the campus quad on Tuesday morning, they were greeted by bold letter graffiti that said, “Welcome to Trump’s Plantation. Overseer: Wayne A.I. Frederick.”
Frederick is the university’s president, who has come under fire from some students after Betsy DeVos made her first official campus visit as secretary of education at Howard.
“Howard University is pleased that Betsy DeVos, the new Secretary of Education, chose to visit our institution as her first official campus visit,” Frederick said in a statement at the time. “We have a longstanding, successful relationship with the Department of Education, and I look forward to advancing this relationship under the Secretary’s leadership.”
A concerned students group, HUResist, met with Frederick afterward and issued a series of demands, including that Howard reject federal funding and ban President Donald Trump from all university-affiliated buildings.[…]
Joseph says that DeVos’s visit to campus had a “very mixed response.” While people didn’t feel comfortable with her or see her as qualified for the job, the other side was largely characterized by “we need to secure funding,” Joseph says.
Howard received about $222 million in federal funding for its university and hospital in 2016, according to The Washington Post.
“He’s in a tough position. Some students feel strongly that Frederick should take a stance against Trump, but I feel as if they’re taking the wrong route,” says Taylor Washington, a second-semester sophomore. “I think he should play it safe.”
She adds that she saw other anti-Frederick graffiti by some of the dorms.
Washington says that “overseer” is a huge insult in the African American community. “I just feel like it’s a little dramatic,” she says.
HT: College Fix