Black Graduation Celebration!

[NUPE4LIFE]

I was watching Fox News this morning, and they had a story on about something they say is going on at a few colleges and universitites around the country. It's where Black students at predominately white universities, hold a separate graduation celebration after the school's official commencement has taken place. One such school that is doing this is Michigan State Univerisity. One of the Black students in the piece said that their reasoning for this is due to the fact that most graduation ceremonies at white school are coming from a eurocentric point of view. Hello...most of our customs in this country come from Europe. Anyway, they feel that it's necessary for them to hold another ceremony with more of a afrocentric perspective.

I'm totally against this. I know that some of you out there are gonna be against me on this one, but I just decided to give you the story and let you decide for yourself. For one I think a ceremony of this type, promotes segregation. I thought the point of the civil rights movement was so that a black man like me, could go to a school like Michigan State and get a degree. And I really honestly feel that if a group of white students wanted to do the same thing, Jesse Jackson would be on the scene trying to say how it's racist. But let's say for instance students have a right to assemble like this, why in the world would they ask the university to pay for it. And that's exactly what they did at MSU. Student Government denied their request for monetary support, but eventually the Office of Student Affairs picked up the tab. The VP of Student Affairs is a brother and he said that they would pay for students of any race to have a celebration. Now what if students of an Aryan nation club wanted to do this? Would MSU fund it? They would have to. What the Black students did is not in anyway racist but, you can't moralize something like this. If you do, then it could becomes a question of civil rights for any student or group who wanted to duplicate what the Black students are doing. I just feel that so much was sacrificed so that we could have the right to state schools and other white institutions.

What do you think? Do you agree or disagree. I think we could all argue how commencement and other activities and some white schools is totally eurocentric? But how do we diversify them, and should we? Some food for thought. Later!