HBFU

Yesterday was pretty interesting – I think it may have been a sign – so I’ll express my views on HBCUs. I’ll lay the foundation – during work I had a discussion about the NFL and my coworker is a Vikings fan, she’s from MD but a Vikings fan; it makes no sense to me either. I mentioned that Visanthe Shiancoe when to my alma mater, Morgan State University. She was surprised about his attendance there but then began to talk about Morgan in a negative manner. I defended by school and concluded that she obviously knew very little about the school – a victory for Ol’ Rob Lee. However, I was vexed. I felt the negative comments where more a statement based in stereotypes or negative publicity. Later in the day I heard about the plan in MS to merge Alcorn State, Mississippi Valley State into Jackson State, thus combining 3 HBCUs in MS into 1. Gov. Haley Barbour cites economic demands as the driving force in this program. I think “shit, isn’t there a lot of colleges in general in MS, so why not do some of the others and “Steve McNair and Jerry Rice when to those schools” So I think about what people have said about Morgan, Coppin and UMES. I haven’t heard great things – But I think it’s unjust. I went to Morgan and received a great education – I’ve made a very diverse group of people I’ll call friends. I got the college experience. Its not a bad rap video – however fuckin’ BET’s College Hill tried to make HBCUs look like shit. Don’t get me wrong – there’s niggas there but there’s niggas everywhere. However, a lot of good students, good people who may be in a fucked up situation get a chance from HBCUs. For instance, Todd Bozeman fucked up at Cal and was “blackballed” (funny term in my mind) from coaching, so where did he turn up? at Morgan, you silly goose. Hell, I attended MSU with former gang members and drug dealer – all looking to receive a second chance or maybe to learn “who not to get caught again”. More importantly, look at when these colleges/universities were founded ( 1867 for Howard and Morgan). I doubt that yer average black person could go to an Amherst College or University of MD. HBCUs were our place to become more. I wasn’t a bad student coming out of HS but University of Miami or University of MD as not in my future so Morgan became an option. It’s a historically black college but I’ve made Latino, Jewish and White friends at Morgan. More so than at my HS, I’ve met very important public and business figures again at an HBCU. I earned the opportunity to broadcast on the radio – which is one of the reasons I do Robcast. I earned my real-life job from an HBCU – so I think if yer there to learn you’ll do well but ignore these fucks who say otherwise – we’re all individuals. With that said – what would you think of yer Gov. planning to combine yer alma mater with two other schools due to the “economy”?

(excuse my grammer, its a blog)