familiar to many of you, but it's worth reflecting on why it happened, why so many people went to such trouble to found hampton and all our historically black colleges and universities. the founders of these institutions knew, of course, that inequality would persist long into the future. they were not naive. they recognized that barriers in our laws on in our hearts wouldn't vanish overnight. but they also recognized the larger truth, a distinctly american truth. they recognized, class of 2010, that the right education might allow those barriers to be overcome, might allow our god-given potential to be fulfilled. they recognized, as frederick douglass once put it, that