SPINOFF: I want some white friends....
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Started by La
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Oct 2004
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...
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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.
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AggieWarrior wrote:Flyyest_216 wrote: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...Ms. Megan wrote:^What kinda of neighborhood did you grow up in and what were you curioius about while attending an HBCU?

