Black college students at predominantly white campuses feel internal cultural tension

The Oklahoman ^ | 7/21/13 | Silas Allen

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks T-Bird45.

black students at predominantly white universities still often struggle to assimilate themselves into a culture they see as different from their own

Can't blame them, many of them are there because of race-norming and illegal quota systems that prevent academically better students from admission there. IOW, they are from a different culture.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Just curious, what culture calls a baby stroller a perambulator?

Victorian for one...

One of the first pictures of me was taken by my father as my mother was getting ready for a stroll around the block. I rode in a wicker perambulator (woven from wicker canes rather like a clothes basket with wooden wheels). That was a bit less than seventy years ago.

Regards,
GtG

[Razz Barry]

It's the same thing our young troops feel every time they go to another country. The reason people pay to travel to other countries is to experience other cultures. This is a great opportunity for poor blacks, but true to their culture, they want people to feel sorry for them. Suck it up and stop your bellyaching. Show some respect for those who are paying for your education by doing a good job of it.

[thecodont]

A lot of these universities have separate commencement ceremonies based on racial/ethnic group.

[stinkerpot65]

Sorry to hear that. Seen it among my own relatives. Class distinctions can be difficult.

Liberals are the biggest source of the problem. Cultures cannot be criticized, even when they are clearly destructive.

[thecodont]

C. S. Lewis, one of the greatest writers on Christianity wrote that there were three options: Jesus was either a liar, an insane man, or the Son of God. He chose Son of God. And so do I.

And so do I.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

There is a small college called Heritage University that specifically caters to Latino and Native American students (combined 63% of student body). Despite gearing the atmosphere and curriculum to these students, only 17% of all students graduate within seven years of enrolling.

I went to an engineering college and started with a freshman class of over 600. I graduated with a BSME in a class of 12. The student body was very diverse because the entrance requirements were very relaxed and did not include an entrance exam. This favored foreign students as they would normally have to leave their home country to travel to Wisconsin on a two week visa, take the exam, return home and wait for results, then apply for a student visa if they passed, then return for four years of college. I had classes with students from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, various African countries, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, and most of the US states.

I should point out that the incoming 600 students were spread out over BSME, BSEE, & 12 AAS (2yr) programs covering many mechanical & electrical specialties. We went through what was called a concentric curriculum, all programs (2 & 4yr) shared the same program and credit load. The entering 600 were cut by 80% in the first six months. I graduated with 11 other new mechanical engineers, there were graduates in the electrical engineering and twelve associate in applied science degrees.

Regards,
GtG

PS My heaviest load was 24 credits plus 7 credits in night school. I graduated on the Dean's List w/ a GPA of 3.298/4.000, I did not work a "day job".

[Ole Okie]

I'm taking a little solace that my alma mater, Oklahoma State, got little mention here

According to the latest count I could find, your Alma Mama is 73% white and 5% black.

My Alma Mama, OU, is 61% white and 5% black.

There's a little disparity in the "Other" column.

[Bon mots]

Maybe somebody just doesn’t belong at college.

So the journalist thinks that because ghetto rats, when allowed into a university on dumbed-down affirmative action quotas and lowered standards, feel dumb and incapable, we need to change the universities.

Maybe if the universities were more like street gangs these ‘students’ would ‘feel better’.

[Graybeard58]

This is the same thing that farm boys and small town kids and mountain kids and big city kids ALL feel. It's called socialization

As a small town 18 year old, I learned it quickly by joining the military.

[RoosterRedux]

And I’ll bet the guys poked fun at your accent (unless you were from Indiana or Ohio).;-)

[The Great RJ]

Do you ever notice that Blacks in the UK speak with the same British accent as whites? The reason is that Blacks in the UK have not adopted a separate culture but live pretty much like their neighbors.

What is making these Black students feel uncomfortable is that they have been brainwashed. Blacks for generations have been brainwashed to believe that white racism is the cause every affliction in their community. Drug and gang culture, soaring no father families, disdain for education etc. are all afflicted on them from a white majority and they have no responsibility for these things and are solely victims. This brainwashing is perpetuated by race hustlers like Sharpton and liberal politicians like Obama who benefit from Blacks knowing their place in the liberal plantation and voting as a block for Democrats who will protect them.

Rachel Jeantel and Trayvon Martin are the products of this liberal plantation culture. They fail in school, but that is the fault of the white run system, not their own apathy toward learning. Using proper English, wanting to go to college, getting good grades is denigrated as acting white and betraying their race. They immerse themselves in a destructive gang and gangsta culture, where rap stars, drugs dealers and pimps are role models for success. No wonder Black feel out of place in a normal society.

[Stentor]

Don’t care. Get on with life. Don’t stick your face in my business.

[dfwgator]

Do you ever notice that Blacks in the UK speak with the same British accent as whites? The reason is that Blacks in the UK have not adopted a separate culture but live pretty much like their neighbors.

Remember the "In Living Color" sketch "Hey Mon!".....It was about a Jamaican family all who work three or four jobs, and think that anyone who only has one job is a "lazy lima bean." At least that's how the blacks in Britain used to be, until our hip-hop culture crossed the Atlantic and poisoned them.

[GOPJ]

Sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois explored the idea in his 1903 book “The Souls of Black Folk.”

W.E.B. Du Bois was a communist ...

[Shimmer1]

You can start a new trend :D

[GOPJ]

Jake Simmons, a professor at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, said schools could help alleviate that tension by implementing programs that reach out not only to students, but also to their families and home communities to let them know what's happening on campus.

I see the twinkle of 'I'm going to get a big fat grant' in Jake's eyes... May I suggest these kids call home? It's what the kids in every other ethic group do, they pick up the phone and talk to Mom... Maybe LESS hand holding is the answer - not more.

[Wanderer99]

Friend of mine teaches in Birmingham Alabama says the students couldn’t care less about learning and just plain don’t care

Why should they care about learning when they can make twice as much money living off Obama welfare and party all day long?! These little ****s may be ignorant but they are not stupid enough to play an honest game in a corrupt country.

[PGR88]

my friend’s grandmother always called us “stunat”

[Lancey Howard]

Lee, an African American Studies major at OU...

LMBO!!
And the only jobs available for people majoring in African American Studies?
Why, teaching African American Studies of course!

What's wrong with this picture?

I guess this kid George Lee is a perfect interview for this silly liberal puff piece. It sounds like he wants to find a street corner on campus where he can stand around with his baseball hat on sideways and hang out with other people of his same "culture". Didn't America used to be a "melting pot" before the scumbag liberal Democrats and their identity politics switched it over to "multi-cultural"? Funny how everything the scumbag liberal Democrats touch turns to turd.