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As an Alcornite alum, I am HIGHLY upset with the comments made in this article! The implications made towards schools in America particularly, HBCU's IS offensive. The education you recieve from Alcorn CAN be compared with any school anywhere! If our education sucks, then why are you (t)here? I mean you can go to U of M, Standford, etc. on a free ride!
Let me also say that why is it when a HBCU increases its enrollment by a few folk it's national headlines but when an HWCU does it-- it's not important. Alcornites could careless about your skin color ! It's not the skin color that teaches you. How ignorant can the people in this article be! Everything in this article is racially offensive to me!
Not to mention, the person who wrote this article is a yank, a New Yorker whose probably had very little exposure to the South and its culture and particularly the history that exists with Alcorn State University! Did he try to find more than one positive quality about my alma mater before he wrote this article? Obviously not!
We turn out highly successful lawyers, doctors, actors/actresses, athletes, and the like---with more than just a few! This letter will be forwarded to my national alumni association and it will be dealt with! Just ask Tom Joyner about us!
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