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Posted By: How May I Help You NC on May 07, 2012 Despite tough financial odds, black colleges offer ways for students to become job creators. By: Steven Gray | Posted: May 7, 2012 at 12:27 AM Sometime in the early '80s, before I turned 10, my grandmother told me: "You should go to Howard." In our family, Howard University was this revered place, partly because one of my uncles had been a quarterback there in the late '70s. But I dismissed the idea, almost as fiercely as I resisted football, having grown up in mostly private, predominantly white schools where everyone, it seemed, aimed for the Ivy League. By the mid-'90s, my parents made clear: If we're paying for college, you're going to a black school. Maybe it was something they'd heard in my voice. Or my preference for Madonna, Michael Jackson and Depeche Mode. Or my rejection of the black Pentecostal church they'd started attending. Here's what they were really saying: Our middle-class kid is confused and needs to figure out he's black. So reluctantly, I went to Howard. More: http://www.theroot.com/views/why-hbcus-mat... If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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