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Originally posted by ClassyLady
I attend an HBCU and I absolutely love it. I am having the time of my life and receiving a great education. I could not see myself in school anywhere else.
I went to an all-white elementary school. My middle school and high school were about 50% white and 50% everything else. I liked that experience. But, when it came time to pick a college, I knew I wanted to attend an HBCU.
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Me too, and like AKATUDE said, there are some of us who get scholarships to "White" universities and chose to go to HBCU's.
In my case, I wanted to be around intelligent students and professors who looked like me; who can relate to what I'm saying when it comes to issues like racism and other issues like that.
At the HBCU that I attend, you see the diversity that is within our culture and you are exposed to alot of different things that are part of our culture. Some students get up here and they don't realize or didn't know that not all African Americans believe or do the same things that you did when you were at home. And things are more in the open, but I think that in learning to appreciate all things in ourselves, we learn to deal with people who are different than us.
I want to say that at least 1 out of 15 (I think it is either twelve or fifteen but enough) students at my HBCU is of Non-African American decent so it is interesting to watch them adapt to our culture and for some of them, their "new" surroundings.
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