Why u going to a black college?

Honestly, I wanna go to an HBCU because :arrow: 1. I live in Farmington CT, which is basically a white town, we have like maybe 6 black families in Farmington, so we buss people in from the city to our school to mix it up a LITTLE, bit. For once I want to be around more black people, then white. I do love my white people tho, haha don't get me wrong, I been here to long to hate them. And Don't get me wrong FHS is a excellent school and everything, but after a while little petty racist remarks really get to you, and you find yourself fighting for teachers to understand how it feels. Like once my this white boy was messin with my friend chanels computer,so she took his arm, kinda hard and moved it away from her. And he was like stupid ****. And he went to the office and they suspended her for two days because he had two scratch marks on his arm from her. So the next day he was in school telling everyone he got a **** suspended. Chanel is my best friend so there was something I had to do about it, my favorite teacher Dr.Doyle, who happens to be white, hates racism, so I talked to him about it, and he talked to the school board but they didn't do anything about it. By this time, all the black people were really mad, so all of us had to go to the office and say how we didn't like how they were handling the situation. Eventually they listened and kicked him out of FHS for good. It's not just things like that, it's other things like teachers thinking your not good enough to take Honors classes or AP classes, so they wont sign you up for the class. Obviously I don't listen to them because I know what I'm capable of, so I do the damn AP courses and the honors one ANYway. :arrow: 2. For 16 1/2 years, ( Don't laugh, I know look at my damn skin color), I thought I was Puerto Rican and White, cause my Ma' lied to me about who my real father was. So I spent all my holidays with them, always feeling left out because they hated me because of my skin color. When I found out that I am really half black, which was after my 16th B-day, I knew that I missed out on so many things, like...REAL food, haha, but really just on my whole heritage, that's what I missed out on. I think going to an HBCU would give me a chance to find myself more than anything.

I am sick and tired of white people complaining about Affirmative Action and how come there aren't any white schools, and scholarships for them. I always tell them to look around, they have plenty of white schools to choose from. I tell them that Affirmative Action is here (that is if George W doesn't get rid of it) because it gives minorities a chance to get an education that can be denied to them because of financial reasons, etc. I want to go to an HBCU because I want to be around black people that have the same agenda as me. I want to be around people who want to make a difference in their lives and others, that they are there to learn and to teach. When you meet graduates of Spelman, Morehouse, Howard, Fisk, the list goes on, there is nothing you can't tell them because they have recieved a good education, and they know that their experience will follow and aid them through their lifetime. This way they can extend their knowledge and wisdom to other black people, so that black people can get out of this mindset that they will not be able to succeed because they are black, and that the only way they can is if they have talent in a sport. White people have done this for years, and it is still going on. When we were slaves, they enslaved us physically, but to make sure we stayed enslaved they enslaved our minds. They made sure that we couldn't read and write, keeping us as a people ignorant. If we continue to have this mindset, then yes we are still slaves to the white man. I pray and hope for the day when black people need to realize that we need to educate ourselves, and rise up out of this mental oppression that we have ourselves in. When we do finally realize this, black people will finally be a VOICE to reckon with. Sorry about the rant, just coming from a predominently(sp?) white city, Louisville, KY I just had to get this off my chest.

There's nothing like African Americans striving together to make it in todays society! Nofolk State University!