Lol...I just decided to make a spinoff post in regards to that girl who asked about whites being at an HBCU. I wonder if I am the only person who feels this way, but I would like to make some friends of other ethnicities...Dont get me wrong, I LOVE attending an HBCU and being around my black people...but sometimes, I get tired of being around JUST n*ggas. I mean granted, I do see white folks in my classes and around campus but I just havent had the opportunity to make some good friends outside of my race...Like when I was at home...I had some white friends I was real tight with...and I kinda miss that. I wanna join the only multicultural sorority on campus, but you cant pledge a regular BGLO if you do...SO that kinda out the question...
But just curious to know if anyone could see where Im coming from with this...
I grew up with Blacks all my life and when deciding on a college at first I was like, "I'm not going to an HBCU, cause I want to experience all types of people."
I, then, visit University of Texas, which is a PWI and soon got a reality check. I just didn't feel right and felt like something wasn't there or something was missing.
I decided to try out a HBCU and I'm glad I did because I realized coming here first believing that all of us Black people are the same and we live our life the same, that we are so different because we are from different parts of the country, we talk different, we eat different, and we dress different. If that ain't diverse then I don't know what diverse is. So I still wanna learn from my own people before I try to adapt to "them". Cause that's the reality of it, at a PWI you're gonna have to adapt to their way of life and can't truly be yourself. But here at a HBCU I can be myself and not feel bad for it.
^What kinda of neighborhood did you grow up in and what were you curioius about while attending an HBCU?
I grew up in a diverse neighborhood...in my neighborhood, I lived near whites, blacks, puerto ricans, asians, etc.
I went to an all black middle school on the other side of town and hated it...I hated tha fact that it was a fashion show, and I got tired of seeing nothing but black ppl. So tha fact that I chose an HBCU shocked most of the ppl around me and they predicted that I wouldn't like it and they were right...I appreciate diversity, learning from other races, and I missed that at Hampton...I don't know how to explain it but an HBCU wasn't for me...
i thought being home would make you stop talkin about this :roll:
I just answered her question...now that I did, I am done...
I'm not RACIST, I just don't like white People, PERIOD.
I went to a Catholic school and had horrible experiences. When I was about 8 years old I told my mother that I didn't want to go to a "white" school EVER AGAIN. So I ended going to Maynard Evans High School which was a all BLACK school in FL. When my people moved us up to Chicago I REFUSED to go to the white HomeWood Flossmor high school...
The same people that protested to keep our parents from not having civil rights are the same people's Kids that we are in school with...
we face racism everyday...Some of us can't even see it :roll:
frankly i like my white friends, NO LOVE THEM .......but yeah with my white friends there is hardly no unnecessary drama if something 'small" happens, and i can be myself.....but then again i dont like my circle of friends to be all one color because then you dont get th diversity of different points of view when youre talking with them...i can rock out at a rave and not have people look at me weird or i can play rock and not get looks or stares or dress kinda grungy/gothic if i wanted to without insults or jokes...like im still trying to adjust to being away from white people and other races, and because of it, i get extreme highs and lows because of the isolation because i cant express myself as freely here and i dont get a broad exposure to things outside of the black diaspora...but i mean im dealing with it...its all good, i still like this hbcu, its just like i dont like the fact that my differences are embraced more at a white school than an HBCU
you know the first people who complimented my hair were white people when i cut it off or when i tried temporary dreads, or who always encouraged me to dress differently...cause it certainly wasnt black people....especially black men...but thats offtopic :roll:
I'm not RACIST, I just don't like white People, PERIOD.
The same people that protested to keep our parents from not having civil rights are the same people's Kids that we are in school with...
we face racism everyday...Some of us can't even see it :roll:
co-signs!! :lol:
I have been around white ppl my whole life, there are barely any black people in my city. When I was in elemetary school I was one of 5 black people (JK-gr 8 ) and all I had was white friends. It wasnt until gr 10 that I actually startted makin sum black friends and ive never really been tight with white people ever since. Its so hard to have conversations wit them cuz they jus dont understand where Im coming from, most of them think racism is over! (can u say IGNORANCE). They also associate blackness with the stereotypes in tha media, n I cant be friends wit people who expect me to act a certain way.
Thats why I wanna hit up an HBCU im tired of all these white poeple, n I dont mind enterin a fashion show, I love fashion. For once I wanna actually learn about sumthin that actually relates to my heritage and not jus to theirs.
^^^i feel what you saying to the fullest cause even though there are a lot of black people at my school i don't have any classes with them and the white people that are supposedly the smartest some of them associate black people with the stereotypes liek my Radio/TV class that's all they did and i hated being the only black person in there. but i do have white friends and i do have a few close ones taht i hope to stay friends with but with the others i am so ready to get out of this hick town. any HBCU will be fine with me where the band plays music i like and i have people to relate to.
I ain't even gonna lie....I wish I knew some white people that I could kick it with.....I went to a 97% black junior high and a 99.98% black high school....so the only white people I knew were at my job. And now I go to an HBCU so it ain't gettin any better. But yeah, when my boys be like, "yeah man, this white guy I was cool with back in the day...", I be like dang I can't relate. Oh well....maybe some other time
ahh...this kinda makes me scared to go to an HBCU in a way. i really really want to go. i have lived around white people all my life. ive lived in diverse places but white were always the majority... as a result i talk "proper". sometimes i would be teased because of how i pronounced some words by blacks but they were the majority of people that i kicked it wit and i always dated black. i want to go to black college to kind of make up for the experience that i didnt have but for some reason i think that since im goin to the south i might not be as accepted as i was everywhere else just because of the way i talk
ahh...this kinda makes me scared to go to an HBCU in a way. i really really want to go. i have lived around white people all my life. ive lived in diverse places but white were always the majority... as a result i talk "proper". sometimes i would be teased because of how i pronounced some words by blacks but they were the majority of people that i kicked it wit and i always dated black. i want to go to black college to kind of make up for the experience that i didnt have but for some reason i think that since im goin to the south i might not be as accepted as i was everywhere else just because of the way i talk
