*smh* ^^^ I see I have to break things down for you.......When the teacher says any thing about the black race, the WHOLE class turns and looks at you or if a non-black touches your hair and says "I just wanted to see what it felt like" or if non-blacks EXPECT you to know every new rap/rnb song that's out...........sometimes the South just irks me at times
See thats why I am soo glad I was raised in this Diverse area where I know people of all kinds. I am familiar with a lot o f races and clutures living here you know. I can understand about being the only person of color in a classroom cuz when I had went to Kentucky bowlinggreen with my troop. They were talking about black girls skin and the one girl was like how come one skin is dark and one skin is light? We were young and I was taught all my life about my race Im mixed race. So its always been kind of hard identifying where I belong but luckily I grew up around soo many othe4r mixed kids and races and cultures of all especially Filipino, Jew, and other Latinos. I went to Bar Mitvahs, quincierras, my own coming out party as a woman.
I went to school with all types of kids and now Im going to be attending a HBCU I dont think it will bethat different but I know I'll learn more about bieng black and its meaning than anything... by being around other blacks and knowing how they were raised.
Im saying just becasue a person is black dont mean u are into the samethigns automatically.
On campus you'll find that there are A LOT of international students, although most are still black, but from a different culture. There definitely aren't too many whites, but there are a few. The statistics are actually about right. There's some indians (from actual India), an asian or two, and some middle eastern students. You definitely get a lot of diversity though just because there's so many different backgrounds coming together in one place and just from my experience, I can say that there is a transfer of cultures for the most part.
^^^ I know.......but I don't want the South to have a bad rep.....it's really fun but you have bad apples wherever you go though
you're about 300 years to late for that..............
Treue Racism exists everywhere.........
but it is a higher concentration of it here than ANYWHERE else in the US......
me myself I believe we as a whole have been changing that image for years but the slight few dummies that still act upon that make it hard..........
@ anyrate................big whoop..........
The south has a bad rep just like New Yorkers...........
Undergrads...maybe like...10 asians....11-12 white people and some "other".
Graduate students? WHOLE NEW BALLPARK. I'd say maybe 70% of Grads are black and the rest have a decent mixup of Asian, Hispanic and Middle-eastern. Whites still are the bottom of the barrel at Howard.
you're about 300 years to late for that..............
Treue Racism exists everywhere.........
but it is a higher concentration of it here than ANYWHERE else in the US......
me myself I believe we as a whole have been changing that image for years but the slight few dummies that still act upon that make it hard..........
@ anyrate................big whoop..........
The south has a bad rep just like New Yorkers...........
I meant not EVERY city, county, and state in the South is *full* of "Hicks, Rednecks, Skinheads ect" Memphis is predominately black and most of the white and other minorities here are very cool. I was talking about my experiences in other cities though. Some1 told me that the Southern whites have much more "in your face racism" then Northerners, but IDK..... :???: But honestly, I think we have scared most of the non-blacks away from Memphis anyway lol
I thought Every school has to have a racial quota by the government....
When you go to a private HBCU, they usually don't have to many non-blacks because they don't have to actively diversify their campus and they usually have like 2% non-blacks. But when you go to a private HBCU, that's when you see a lot of whites like A&T, 13% non-blacks. FSU, 50%.
