what do you think about ppl saying students at hbcu's are more woke than ppl at pwi's?
Firstly, I think the whole PWI vs. HBCU argument as a whole is useless and counterproductive anyway. A complete useless waste of time.
But HBCU students being more āwokeā than those who attend PWIs? An institution isnāt responsible for everything, especially making someone āwoke.ā Itās all up to the student. Now letās be honestā¦no institution, no matter how grand and great and acclaimed, is fully responsible for what a person has **accepted** to learn, and going to a school with a certain label/name/history doesnāt automatically make you the best. Hereās a little exampleā¦
Itās easy for someone to go to Harvard to be a lawyer and cheat their way through everything, learning absolutely nothing. And of course they just might think theyāre perfectly fit to be a lawyer and that they know everything simply because they attend a high ranked school that specializes in law. Butā¦likeā¦theyāre really not. Because even though they go to one of the best schools for law, they didnāt put in all the work.
I know. That was probably a really shitty example, but...
Same goes for attending an HBCU.
Yes the history of an HBCU is centered around people of color. Yes HBCUs have mostly professors of color. Yes you are more than likely to learn more in depth about your race in certain classes versus if you were to take them at certain white institutions.But like I saidā¦
Going to a certain caliber of school or the school that specializes in what you need does NOT. I repeat does NOT automatically make you what you want/need to be. Itās always about the work YOU put in. Itās very very very possible for Joann to travel 2500 miles south to attend an HBCU yet stay ignorant and uneducated on all of the social issues in our country, fail all of her African History classes because she did not apply herself, and graduate without comprehension of her own black history and societal issues. Meanwhile Christina, who stayed in state to attend the whitest school in her state, is educating herself outside of the classroom on her history, bringing up these topics in class, educating her [white] peers, and doing great black activist work on campus and when she comes home in her community. Sounds like much more than Joann, right? I have friends back in Detroit who attend PWIs and I have āwokeā dialogue with them all the time. Some things they *did* learn from given courses, other things they learned themselves. I also have friends back home who attend HBCUs that are completely oblivious to how they are intersectionally oppressed and also do not know what a social construct isā¦
School name/type doesnāt make you better than anyone. That knowledge is what matters. Itās about what you know, even if you had to teach yourself.
Sooo, at the end of the day I say no one is better than anyone, but people need not think that black students at PWIs donāt know anything. People need to focus on THEIR education more than they focus on someone elseās. The āwokeā people who live by this argument should reevaluate their meaning of what it means to be āwokeā and check themselves because clearly they missed something if they even feel need to make this unnecessary argument.
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