That's right. We have always had Black professionals, and we will continue to have them. While it's an advantage to have the prestige of a prominent, white institution attached to one's name, you have pointed out that more graduates from HBCUs enter graduate and professional schools. We need to continue to lift up our own. Yeah, it's nice to go to Yale or Harvard for Law School, but, as many disappointed law school applicants have learned, you learn the same content no matter where you go. There are gifted professors and students in schools with less prestige as well as those with more.

Thank you for reminding people that white women have always been the greater beneficiaries of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action never meant "preferences," as so many wish to interpret it for their own purposes, but "going beyond the usual suspects" when forming applicant pools.