Johnetta B. Cole Quotes
We are for allowing difference and respecting difference until difference doesn't make a difference any more.
Johnetta B. Cole, President, Spellman College, Speech, Vassar College, Quoted on CBS, Sunday Morning, June 13, 1993
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The statement was made just before Kenyan Independence was official. His statement was surprising to many people who perceived him as a racist and anti-white. There was a fear that whites would no longer be welcome in Kenya after independence, but Kenyatta’s leadership maintained a pluralistic society.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole (born 1936) is an American anthropologist, educator, museum director, and college president. Cole was the first female African-American president of Spelman College, a historically black college, serving from 1987 to 1997. She was president of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007. During 2009–2017 she was Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art.