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Originally Posted by RitaMae1908
AMEN! AMEN! 
And YES I am an alum of an HBCU!
And NO these types of things have not just occured at FAMU.
I would not be the successful, driven person that I am today if not for the HBCU education I received.
To LitAKAtor: I ride or die for my school as well (I bleed the Blue and Gold). We had our share of problems in the recent past as far the financial state of the university and university officials abusing their power. We (the alumni) must take the stance that something must be done! But family business is family business.  So I TOTALLY understand the Fiery response!
To Nupe4Life: If you didn't go to an HBCU you then just understand that you leave that campus and move on the bigger and greater things, you do so feeling like you're leaving behind "family". So I think that may be part of reason why you got your a** chewed.  It's like if somebody talks about "yo mama". Those are fighting words!!! |
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Originally Posted by litAKAtor
Don't get me wrong - as I said - I do not hold A&M or its administration blameless . . .but at the same time the BORs turned a blind eye to things that were going on that weren't quite right for a long time b/c of Hump and their "fear" of him. I am very angry at the bad light my alma mater is in, but I do NOT appreciate nor encourage people to blanketly call for the school that has educated so many to close its doors. If this was UF or FSU or USF or any of the other public universities, these legislators would not be saying such things . . .it is downright disrespectful. As I stated, the problem took 10 years to make, it is going to take more than 10 minutes to fix. I LOVE MY SCHOOL and I will dayumed if I am going to let someone who did not walk on the hill and deal with what I dealt with disrespect my beloved university. . . .PERIOD!!!!  |
Rita Mae and LitAKAtor, you are letting your emotions obscure the facts. And the fact is that Florida A&M University is a BUSINESS!! And like any business, if there are inadequate resources to keep that business running, that business will cease to exist one way or another.
Too many black folks are unable to separate their heart and loyalty from sound business decisions, hence you get emotionally charged discussions as these. Whether or not N4L attended FAMU is irrelevant and has nothing to do with his ability to intelligently discuss the issues at hand. As long as folk like you continue to argue, debate, and fight issues with emotions rather than with facts and business saavy, then businesses like Florida A&M University frankly deserve to go down the toilet.
This is real talk and tough love.
Signed,
A former Central State University (HBCU) student whose school encountered issues similar to that of FAMU.