Middle Tennessee State Student Believes Blacks Should Transfer To HBCUs

Middle Tennessee State Student Believes Blacks Should Transfer To HBCUs

Do you think Black students should leave their PWI (predominately white institution) and mass transfer to a HBCU? According to a letter to the editor from Daily Journal News, one Middle Tennesse student believes we would better to leave.

I won’t debate history. What’s awfully apparent, however, is that neither MTSU nor the state of Tennessee think black students matter. How much longer do we have to tell you that having symbols of white supremacy on our campus don’t exactly give us warm and fuzzy feelings? How do we expect to eradicate white supremacy if we cannot even remove its symbols? How much longer do we have to beg for you to see our humanity? At what point does begging diminish my own humanity?

Well, I’m done begging. I’m done begging a system that never had my well-being in mind to see me.

Black students make of 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MTSU. One in five undergraduates at MTSU are black students. And I think they should all transfer to an HBCU.

What impact would it have if 20 percent of the undergraduate population transferred to TSU or Fisk or American Baptist College? Not only would it cripple the pockets of a racist institution, but it would build up black institutions. At an HBCU, students may experience a different set of challenges, but they don’t experience challenges that question their very humanity.

And that’s where I’m at. I’ll never tell another black person to attend MTSU and I’m highly suggesting that those who do to consider transferring. We don’t have to beg institutions to be included. And we don’t have to be where we’re not wanted.

Discuss.