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Dmorgan15 said:
All minorities know that they have to be well rounded because seldom they are the majority in the work place or get the same opportunities their counterparts get. Studies have shown that minority students learn and succeed more when they are educated by minority teachers and professor. In fact, most African American doctors graduated from HBCUs. I suggest your do your homework before posting something random.
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so sad for you with this backwards thinking.


I wonder what it takes for Grambling to hire a white coach or a hispanic?
 
Dmorgan15 said:
All minorities know that they have to be well rounded because seldom they are the majority in the work place or get the same opportunities their counterparts get. Studies have shown that minority students learn and succeed more when they are educated by minority teachers and professor. In fact, most African American doctors graduated from HBCUs. I suggest your do your homework before posting something random.
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This is by FAR the dumbest post I've ever read on the internet...,
 
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Reading this thread is further proof that we have a ton of people on this board that haven't sniffed a college campus, nor understand certain things about the collegiate experience.

HBCUs serve an important societal purpose, because unlike a lot of PWIs, that serve as incubators of entrenched class distinctions, HBCUs and HSIs(Hispanic Serving Institutions) serve as a refuge for those that have been systematically ignored. Keep in mind, HBCUs and HSIs have larger percentages of first generation college students than their PWI counterparts. That's something that is extremely important because the proven way to break the cycle of poverty is through education. HBCUs and HSIs have proven that they are good at getting kids that may have not had optimal educational environments growing up through school, and out into the workforce. HBCUs have and will continue to be one of the more affordable higher education options for many, and for a Black person, living in an environment where you aren't shamed for merely existing can be life changing. One of the best quotes about the HBCU experience came from Earl Lloyd, the first Black man to play in the NBA "Attending West Virginia State was a refuge from a mostly racist world. It was a place where I was safe to be myself". Even though Earl attended school decades before the Civil Rights Act, his words ring true today.

I looked at a couple of HBCUs as well as Miami when I was selecting a college, and even though I chose UMiami, I could easily see the benefits of an HBCU. HBCUs should be preserved, point blank period.
 
caneguy said:
Lets see then. HBCUs did an excellent job at a time in which higher education was inaccesible to black people in this country. Now it’s a different landscape. In which one of the biggest issues for people is too much education, leaving them with high debt and little skills to show for it.
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Too much education? Oh, that booklearning is evil!

The problem with higher education is that we treat it as a job training program, something that used to be executed by companies. They were allowed to outsource something that is their job to colleges, when in previous generations, we treated higher education as something to prepare the next generation of innovators. You have companies requiring a degree for a job that any reasonably intelligent person can do with just a little bit of training. We have also allowed the wealthy to convince the idiots amongst us that education is a luxury, not a fundamental obligation of a functional society, in order to justify irrational tax cuts. Once upon a time, a state school education was affordable for most, with a decent summer job and decent budgeting. That isn't true anywhere at this point. Tuition has outpaced inflation in a way that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Then again, when you look at the fact that schools are receiving less funding than ever before, of course those costs are going to get passed on to the student. I could go on and on about the insanity of financial institutions giving six figure loans to 18 year olds, because they know that they will get their money eventually, but that's an argument that doesn't belong on this board.
 
caneguy said:
Hbcus are increasingly unnecessary, all universities want to expand their number of African American students, so they are going after the same students but have more resources. And for the students it’s probably better to go to a traditional large university. Due to more resources , but also the need to be able to get along with people outside of ones own race. You have to be comfortable in a diverse environment if you want to succeed. Can’t stay in safe space
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HBCU’s are never going away. That’s ridiculous.
 
JOE'CANE said:
Man stop lying. The lineman are overweight and can't move, the WRs drop a **** ton of balls, and the QBs can't throw except for Sanders and the kid from Alabama A&M.

Even listening to the games are hard bc the analysts(atleast on ESPN) are horrible.
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Man you see games like that on the fbs level too. Unfortunately there’s very few HBCUs and only a handful on the D1 level. If you tune in to watch the better teams then you’ll see that they have good games. I mean do you watch every team in the Sun belt? Every team in conference USA? Or every team in the MWest? Naw we just watch the good teams. No one is looking at Louisiana Monroe, Texas State, UTEP, & San Jose State. You check out the better teams. There were some good HBCU football games. Especially in the SWAC. And complaining about the qb play in fcs? Come on man. You just acknowledged two really talented kids in that conference. That’s huge for an fcs conference.
 
Dhatguy said:
Some posters have reverted back to their old ways I see, or just did a good job hiding it.

Nuke the thread
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Nah let them all speak their mind. Hopefully someone becomes educated. We can’t discontinue having convos because they are uncomfortable or we just don’t want to be bothered. That doesn’t resolve anything.
 
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MiamiChris said:
They aren’t D1 so I don’t think they can be ranked, secondly this will never happen until they upgrade facilities all across HBCU universities
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A few coaches polls may give them votes. App State received votes in 07 after beating UMich. They were a fcs at the time. However, more money has to be invested in their programs.
 
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jackbenimble71 said:
so sad for you with this backwards thinking.


I wonder what it takes for Grambling to hire a white coach or a hispanic?
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I never get people when they make comments like this. They have had white coaches in the past. Not HCs but coaches. What point are you trying to make? Most of their hirings came from other HBCUs where they had success.
 
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Dmorgan15 said:
All minorities know that they have to be well rounded because seldom they are the majority in the work place or get the same opportunities their counterparts get. Studies have shown that minority students learn and succeed more when they are educated by minority teachers and professor. In fact, most African American doctors graduated from HBCUs. I suggest your do your homework before posting something random.
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I don’t identify as minority or African American
 
Do you even know why HBCUs were created? I’ll say this though. I graduated from FAMU and I’m doing pretty good for myself. My time there taught me it’s more about who you know than what you know.
caneguy said:
Hbcus are increasingly unnecessary, all universities want to expand their number of African American students, so they are going after the same students but have more resources. And for the students it’s probably better to go to a traditional large university. Due to more resources , but also the need to be able to get along with people outside of ones own race. You have to be comfortable in a diverse environment if you want to succeed. Can’t stay in safe space
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