This post is filled with the gospel truth so if you don’t like reading or gaining knowledge, you can scroll down and watch a video. This is the truth. After going to a HBCU for only 1 semester so far, it kinda put things into perspective. Many of my friends go to prestigious schools and i would say i do too. After getting into a huge debate with people who DON’T go to a HBCU it is very clear how the world looks at us. When you go to college, you’re not your own person until you graduate. Until you graduate, you are your college/university, unless you go to a HBCU. They see you as a black person going to a black college. Many people may challenge this statement and many people may agree. HBCUs are the only colleges/universities still teaching African Americans knowledge of self, a teaching that is a dying breed. Now a days the knowledge of self is “primitive” because we are all “humans” and some would even say that HBCUs aren’t needed. Thats where Rare Impression comes in. Rare Impression. Just think of that phrase. Every college has left its history and its own impression on the world. When you think of Harvard, you don’t think of Drexel. Why? Because they stand alone. But for some reason, when you think of Morehouse, people like to bring up other HBCUs like we are a subdivision of higher intellect. This has to stop. The people attending HBCUs have their own life, own ways, and own thoughts that the rest of the world doesn’t see. They say HBCUs aren’t diverse, but yet i’ve seen the most diverse people just by going to Morehouse for one semester. Some of us are really into books, some of us want to be stars, and theres many more attributes that I can’t even touch upon. The world puts us all into one group no matter what HBCU you go to. It could be Howard, Morehouse, Spelman, etc. All they see is “historical BLACK college/university.” By the end of my 4 years at Morehouse, I will have shown the world the many faces of a HBCU.
