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"Graduates of PWI universities, did you ever feel oppressed?"
Wed Nov-11-15 08:08 PM by PimpTrickGangstaClik

          

All this talk about mistreatment at these universities got me wondering if I was clueless of my own oppression or if I just got lucky.

I went to school in racist ass Texas (2005-2010) and never got called nigger (although we did have plenty of confed flags. I mean, this IS Texas). My teachers treated me more than fairly, and I never felt unsafe or uncomfortable.

Our Black Student Association never got the opportunity to get mad about anything because nothing worthwhile ever happened. The occasional racist flare up was just shrugged off as random events not worth our attention.

So has the landscape drastically changed just recently? Are students more aware/care more? Are they more sensitive? Do they just want to be a part of something and are just riding the momentum?



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Graduates of PWI universities, did you ever feel oppressed? [View all] , PimpTrickGangstaClik, Wed Nov-11-15 08:03 PM
 
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10% or so...not oppressed but diff treatment
Nov 11th 2015
1
nope.
Nov 11th 2015
2
hell no... but VCU was 49% white
Nov 11th 2015
3
Things done changed. It's going down at your alma mater RIGHT TODAY
Nov 12th 2015
29
      I saw this on my FB feed...
Nov 13th 2015
33
           i should add...
Nov 13th 2015
35
                Easier said than done (re: more black faculty)
Nov 13th 2015
46
                     if you need a $1.. don't ask for $2, ask for $10
Nov 13th 2015
54
                     What's the jump from high school teacher to college professor?
Nov 16th 2015
74
I wouldn't say oppressed, but
Nov 11th 2015
4
No but i also went to a PWI who focused on minority retention
Nov 11th 2015
5
I went to Temple, although that was a pretty Diverse campus
Nov 12th 2015
6
My wife went to Temple grad, had a latina professor who implied Blacks w...
Nov 12th 2015
10
Blacks w...? Don't leave us hanging here!
Nov 12th 2015
19
      were lazy
Nov 12th 2015
20
yea not sure this would apply to an urban campus
Nov 12th 2015
15
same. there were eye rolling moments here and there, but nothing oppress...
Nov 14th 2015
64
Yes -- but I was affected moreso by homophobia and misogyny
Nov 12th 2015
7
hmm.. i found unc pretty queer friendly
Nov 13th 2015
34
      I should clarify. The school itself wasn't homophobic.
Nov 16th 2015
77
never
Nov 12th 2015
8
Attending one now. I'm good.
Nov 12th 2015
9
FSU and GSU
Nov 12th 2015
11
no
Nov 12th 2015
12
No more so than Iife in general. That's what bothers me about these cur...
Nov 12th 2015
13
Not at all.
Nov 12th 2015
14
Some students are way more sensitive these days.
Nov 12th 2015
16
Not oppressed, but definitely more aware of my blackness
Nov 12th 2015
17
^^^basically this for me
Nov 13th 2015
49
      U street has a Warby Parker now.
Nov 16th 2015
76
Nah, but I grew up in the hood around mostly Black folks
Nov 12th 2015
18
I went to SMU from 2003-2007, and yeah racist ish happened.
Nov 12th 2015
21
Oppressed, no Segregated, Hell Yes
Nov 12th 2015
22
Hell yeah.
Nov 12th 2015
23
nope.
Nov 12th 2015
24
Creating those special admin positions is always hilarious to me
Nov 12th 2015
25
right?
Nov 12th 2015
27
Didn't know we were counting campus police too. In that case...
Nov 12th 2015
26
i'm glad i went to St. John's...it was the best of all worlds
Nov 12th 2015
28
One thing I like about my American History class is that...
Nov 13th 2015
30
Attended two...Temple and Penn
Nov 13th 2015
31
Went to both HBCU & a PWI
Nov 13th 2015
32
A&T is missing from your Top 5 man...
Nov 13th 2015
37
every person i know who went to an HBCU and grduated had no problem
Nov 13th 2015
40
same here and i have a story about it...
Nov 13th 2015
51
      RE: same here and i have a story about it...
Nov 14th 2015
63
No generalizations, numbers don't lie US News & World Report
Nov 15th 2015
67
      RE: No generalizations, numbers don't lie US News & World Re...
Nov 15th 2015
69
This is a really offensive and incorrect statement
Nov 13th 2015
47
      ^^^this
Nov 13th 2015
50
      Why are you offended?
Nov 15th 2015
68
           RE: Why are you offended?
Nov 15th 2015
70
                basically... dude acting like PWI's produce Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Nov 16th 2015
72
oppressed? no. treated unfairly? yes
Nov 13th 2015
36
it also helped to be in NYC
Nov 13th 2015
43
If you feel segregated then why not transfer to another school?
Nov 13th 2015
38
b/c maybe the school offered benefits that outweighed the
Nov 13th 2015
39
^^^
Nov 13th 2015
42
money? parents? fear? ionno
Nov 13th 2015
41
i mean ulitmately you're there for an education
Nov 13th 2015
52
in state tuition is cheap
Nov 13th 2015
58
Transferring isn't cheap or easy.
Nov 16th 2015
73
I would think college campuses are the least oppressive places
Nov 13th 2015
44
SEC territory and Big 12 territory? DEFINITELY
Nov 13th 2015
48
In the south? Yeah it is...
Nov 13th 2015
53
      I went to U of Tennessee my first year of college
Nov 13th 2015
55
           Yeah but the world is filled with racist assholes.
Nov 13th 2015
59
                Well U of Tennessee is in Knoxville... not sure how oppressive that city...
Nov 13th 2015
61
said by Masta Ace..
Nov 13th 2015
45
Definitely, I was more jarred by racist/sexist administrators & profs th...
Nov 13th 2015
56
in post grad, yes
Nov 13th 2015
57
penn state, had sit ins/week long camp at the student union bldg
Nov 13th 2015
60
I didn't graduate, but I went to Mizzou
Nov 14th 2015
62
i turned down a full-ride @ Mizzou in the mid-90s
Nov 15th 2015
65
Not Oppressed, but in Grad School many black folks felt overlooked.
Nov 15th 2015
66
My school was 85% hispanic
Nov 16th 2015
71
i aint even know what a PWI was until last year.
Nov 16th 2015
75

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