HBCUs were founded for the black students that wanted to go to college but PWIs said fuck no, yall not coming in here. Anyone can apply, but it’s not really common for a white person to be seen on campus as a student.
Very interesting. I've never heard of those. Definitely makes sense from a historical point of view but the concept of them existing in a modern day context still seems bizarre to me.
I’d like to think they don’t care, but it isn’t a perfect world. Some people hate it saying it isn’t fair because they think it’s a school only for black folks and that it’s racist, but the schools literally only exist because of, you guessed it, racism.
Personally, I love it for my people, but it’s a harsh reminder that we had to make our own schools because we were deemed unworthy because of our skin.
The same white people who bitch about Black Americans having this are the same ones who have no issue with schools using loopholes to only allow white students basically. (Daughters of the American Revolution, for example, SAY they allow anyone. But you have to prove you're descended from someone who fought in the revolutionary war. Which obv is gunna be 99% white people.)
Nah the one's who are bitching are the one's that can only afford community colleges with PELL grants.
I guess in your worldview all white students come from a wealthy background where their parents have a good lawyer that seeks out loopholes to give opportunities to their children.
But IMO no-one's really bitching about those schools cause most people just don't know they exist.
I live in the American south, and am white. Any time DEI/Affirmative Action/Equality is brought up, SOMEONE brings up "But BET, but BLACK ONLY SCHOLARSHIPS" etc.
Happens constantly. You're lucky if you've never had to try to explain to a racist why minority scholarships aren't themselves racist. They just play the "it's racist against whites" card and pretend they have moral high ground.
Tbh I don't understand why my comment is being downvoted. It's just a fact that there are racist white people who see things like this post as racist against them. shrug
Edit: Oh, also, I went to community College on a Pell grant. So...
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u/Legal_Guava3631 2d ago
HBCUs were founded for the black students that wanted to go to college but PWIs said fuck no, yall not coming in here. Anyone can apply, but it’s not really common for a white person to be seen on campus as a student.