I think you'll find a lot of evidence to support Shawn,
In one of my classes, we talk about how black Americans are bicultural. We have to learn "the ways of white folk" well before college, in general. White people tend not to have to learn about people of color simply because that's not a priority for survival for most white people.

P.S. I don't go to a HBCU.

It just BES that way sometimes.

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