Have historically black colleges outlived their purpose?

....and if so, what’s to be done about that?

Clearly, at their inception, their was a need for their establishment, and for many years, their existence.

But consider their white “counterpart” schools at the high school level. I grew up in the era of “LISA” schools. For the youngsters, “LISA” schools were small, private schools that served one unwritten purpose to which educating children was actually secondary. These schools sprang up in late 1960s and early 1970’s, and that PRIMARY purpose was to keep little white boys and girls from having to face the horrors of being educated while sitting next to little black girls and boys.

As the South integrated the public school system in the 1970’s, and found other, more subtle ways to segregate children, the primary purpose and conditions for which and in which these schools were created and deemed necessary no longer existed. As such, they either closed up shop, or allowed black children to attend.

The same plight now faces historically black colleges. Sure, white folks can go. And obviously, black folks can go to colleges that were once off limits to them. It just seems to me that the when the educational money pie is getting carved up at the state level, and simultaneously word comes down that higher education is facing serious financial crisis, the most logical place to cut would be an ENTIRE SYSTEM of schools who’s purpose for creation no longer exists.