Marion O'Neill is a newcomer to Brownstone University, a historically Black school located in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. Born in the environs of Galway, Ireland, and raised in Missouri, Marion has a lot to learn about the African American experience. As a teacher at a historically Black school, Marion has to get over her White privilege and try to connect with the Black student body and Black faculty as best she can. Omar Keller, the Dean of Students, has clashed with Marion over her biased views...
Omar Keller, professor emeritus and Dean of Students wasn't thrilled with Brownstone University Tyrone Wilmington's decision to hire more White teachers. It's not like White institutions do more than pay lip service to diversity on their end. Omar Keller knows that no matter how liberal big schools like Northeastern or Boston College or Harvard claim to be, they will always remain majority White. The least Brownstone University could do was stay majority Black...
Brownstone University was founded in the summer of 1899 at a time when the majority of Black folks living in the State of Massachusetts could barely read or write. Brownstone University started out as the Brownstone Normal School, providing a much-needed education to Black Americans across New England at the dawn of the twentieth century. Someone had to educate Black folks and save their souls, and Brownstone University is the school that stepped up...
Brownstone University has done wonders for African American education and in her century-plus existence, the school has produced doctors, lawyers, senators, mayors, police chiefs, and the like. While not as famous or as prestigious as Morehouse College, Howard University, Tuskegee University, Spelman College or Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Brownstone University can definitely holds its own among these prestigious HBCUS.
In the year 2019, Brownstone University has turned into something which its founder, Jefferson Brownstone, a mulatto freedman who fought in the American Civil War, would never recognize. In September 2019, Brownstone University welcomed eight thousand five hundred and seventeen students back to its vaunted halls. Out of the freshman class's eighteen hundred students, only fifty seven were Black...the rest were White, Asian or Latino. Omar Keller feared the day that Brownstone University would no longer be a true HBCU...
Political correctness aside, Omar Keller questioned the wisdom of Brownstone University hiring a flurry of White female teachers. Black students need to be taught by Black professors. The way Omar Keller figured it, having too many White broads around could pose a threat to the young Black men attending Brownstone University. The taciturn Black academic wasn't being facetious either. Omar Keller has always been a pragmatic man, one with a keen understanding of both history and trends...
Every time a Black actor, a Black sportsman or a Black male celebrity is accused of some incorrect shit, there's usually a White woman involved. Omar Keller isn't one to mince words or hide his feelings, hence why he clashed with new hire Marion O'Neill. A lot of the White female teachers that Brownstone University hired were middle-aged broads, and they hailed from New England. Marion O'Neill was an Irish-flavored White female southerner, someone whom Omar Keller could never bring himself to trust...
