HBCU's I love, LOVE, LOVE IT!
You would never understand why I go to a black school.
Firstly its called an HBCU Historically Black College or University.
Just like there are Christian or Mormon Academies, there are black schools.
Specific schools where the specific goal is to teach the black student things that that are devoid in conventional schools, such as a sense of pride, political figures, black scholars, authors (the ones overlooked in public schooling) and most importantly an adequate education.
You not only learn your history, but you surround yourself with positive black people making a difference.
Not only are your surroundings similar, but you get a sense of pride and motivation. People like you succeeding, so I can do it too. We have some of the best programs this country has to offer. Medical, Journalism, Marketing, Law and the list goes on.
We read, we study, we party.
Yes, black schools party, just like others.
Often said that black people aren't smart, HBCU's provide education not only to further the student, but give them a purpose.
HBCUs were created to educate the slaves and children of slaves. It also provided a place to learn where white schools would not let black students it.
HBCU are colleges and universities created before 1964 in the struggle to educate black students. Our schools were founded in 1860s, people creating schools to educate Negro women, men and children. Schools to educate slaves--get it?
But what you think is that I'm going to be around my people, and that its not the real life, or it wont be that many black people in the corporate world.
That is your ignorance.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Samuel L. Jackson, Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, Spike Lee, Stokely Carmichael, Ben Wallace, Lionel Richie, Zora Neale Hurston, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and hundreds more- the black activists and popular figures, that you know of. The ones who have turned this nation around are all products of HBCUs.
Morehouse College and Spelman College have been described as the Harvard College and the Radcliffe College, respectively, while Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) was known as the Black Princeton University of the historically black higher-education institutions in the United States. North Carolina Central University, Howard University, Hampton University, Morgan State University, Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Florida A&M University, Texas Southern University, Prairie View A&M University, Virginia Union University, Clark Atlanta University, Wilberforce University and Central State University -- just to name a few. There are 103 HBCUs.
I attend Bowie State University, founded in 1865. Not only does HBCUs graduate notable African Americans, but Caucasians as well. Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in Space, who died in air, on the Challenger Space Shuttle, graduated from Bowie State University.
So, do not dare say "I don't like black schools, or they do not provide an adequate education"
That is your ignorance.
There is nothing like seeing a rose that grew from concrete. Unfortunate brothers and sisters making it to the top, black minds being trained and remade into prestigious men and women.
Blacker the College Deeper the Knowledge.
We have history, we have a future.
And don't get me started on Sororities and Fraternities.
We are a rare commodity.
When white schools who did let a tiny bit of us in to their college (after the riots of course) they still would not let us join a fraternity or sorority because of the color of our skin, so we kicked the door and made our own.
I smile when I see an older AKA, she is the portrait of struggle. She made it through segregation, standards of beauty, and most importantly struggling to maintain her womanhood.
HBCUs I salute you.
History still going strong.
We salute, pay tribute, and acknowledge those who made it possible for us to be here.
We owe them so much, never turn your back on your family.
Support and watch them through. Not only does it have history, but it provides a great education.
Don't knock me for attending an HBCU, you should applaud me.
Boy-- does ignorance kill!
Firstly its called an HBCU Historically Black College or University.
Just like there are Christian or Mormon Academies, there are black schools.
Specific schools where the specific goal is to teach the black student things that that are devoid in conventional schools, such as a sense of pride, political figures, black scholars, authors (the ones overlooked in public schooling) and most importantly an adequate education.
You not only learn your history, but you surround yourself with positive black people making a difference.
Not only are your surroundings similar, but you get a sense of pride and motivation. People like you succeeding, so I can do it too. We have some of the best programs this country has to offer. Medical, Journalism, Marketing, Law and the list goes on.
We read, we study, we party.
Yes, black schools party, just like others.
Often said that black people aren't smart, HBCU's provide education not only to further the student, but give them a purpose.
HBCUs were created to educate the slaves and children of slaves. It also provided a place to learn where white schools would not let black students it.
HBCU are colleges and universities created before 1964 in the struggle to educate black students. Our schools were founded in 1860s, people creating schools to educate Negro women, men and children. Schools to educate slaves--get it?
But what you think is that I'm going to be around my people, and that its not the real life, or it wont be that many black people in the corporate world.
That is your ignorance.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Samuel L. Jackson, Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, Spike Lee, Stokely Carmichael, Ben Wallace, Lionel Richie, Zora Neale Hurston, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and hundreds more- the black activists and popular figures, that you know of. The ones who have turned this nation around are all products of HBCUs.
Morehouse College and Spelman College have been described as the Harvard College and the Radcliffe College, respectively, while Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) was known as the Black Princeton University of the historically black higher-education institutions in the United States. North Carolina Central University, Howard University, Hampton University, Morgan State University, Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Florida A&M University, Texas Southern University, Prairie View A&M University, Virginia Union University, Clark Atlanta University, Wilberforce University and Central State University -- just to name a few. There are 103 HBCUs.
I attend Bowie State University, founded in 1865. Not only does HBCUs graduate notable African Americans, but Caucasians as well. Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in Space, who died in air, on the Challenger Space Shuttle, graduated from Bowie State University.
So, do not dare say "I don't like black schools, or they do not provide an adequate education"
That is your ignorance.
There is nothing like seeing a rose that grew from concrete. Unfortunate brothers and sisters making it to the top, black minds being trained and remade into prestigious men and women.
Blacker the College Deeper the Knowledge.
We have history, we have a future.
And don't get me started on Sororities and Fraternities.
We are a rare commodity.
When white schools who did let a tiny bit of us in to their college (after the riots of course) they still would not let us join a fraternity or sorority because of the color of our skin, so we kicked the door and made our own.
I smile when I see an older AKA, she is the portrait of struggle. She made it through segregation, standards of beauty, and most importantly struggling to maintain her womanhood.
HBCUs I salute you.
History still going strong.
We salute, pay tribute, and acknowledge those who made it possible for us to be here.
We owe them so much, never turn your back on your family.
Support and watch them through. Not only does it have history, but it provides a great education.
Don't knock me for attending an HBCU, you should applaud me.
Boy-- does ignorance kill!
I commned You for Your great convictions, pride and loyalty for us as a people.
You could have gave Your Gifts to a white University.
Keep it up, the whole wolrd needs You.