Bacoo,

Nope! In general I decided to go to a White university, primarily because it was far cheaper than Spelman and secondly ,because I got sick and tired the hypocrisy that was taking place on the campus. Just like I have mentioned on a prior post if I wanted to experience prejudice like what I have witnessed on that campus, why not experience it on a campus where you know you're are morelikely to be a victim of it.

Burning Spear,

But that is the thing, I didn't grow up in a majority Black neighborhood and although I grew up in the outskirts of Atlanta( With the mayor of my small city being White) in general I grew up on the era of the late Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young, I did attend racially mixed and Black schools. Initally, I chose Spelman because of family traditions( My grandfather graduated from Clark Atlanta and my brother went to Morehouse). There irony of it is that while my grandfather wanted us to attend an HBCU, he warned my brother and I against Spelman and Morehouse because to him they were elitist schools, butwegnored his warning. For a while it was all good, but I just got sick and tired of some of those women and men on those campus thinking they were so superior over students who were from Clark-Atlanta and Morris Brown. I got sick of it, but like I told Bacoo my primary reason of leaving the school was because of my finances.

When I mean that I want to experience the "real world" is to experience the "what if's " of it. I know Black people who , like you said, spent all of their lives in the situaitons you mentioned and go to these schools because of racial security, Some of them go becuasethat , While others attend for historical reasons. I tried to go to Spelman college for historical reason. I was intrigued being called a Spelman woman and the idea of my going to a good liberal arts school, but I was turned off by some of the atitudes , hypocrisy and prejudice. I could have learned that from the White University I was attending.

I have never dissed all HBCU, only Spelman and Morehouse because I can honestly say that I attended it and didn't like it. I have never put all White Universities on a pedestal, though I liked my University and never had experienced the racism I anticipated from there . I only mentioned the real world because everybody you're going to work with is not going to be Black or African-Americans. Even with many Black corporations, there are Whites and others to work on and even the Morehouse school of mediceine have non-Blacks on their campus). Much as I hate it, some people should experience there will be a time where they will have to leave their comfort zones and be in a situation that he or she may not agree with. Although I never lived a racially sheltered life, I need to be exposed to it, so I can learn and deal with it.'m not against Black education/ White education go and get it, but with me and an HBCU like Spelman my experience turned me away from that shcool.

Sure I would go to 'black' university/school and I would welcome one.

But what outcome would it have?Is it an institution run buy 'black' people with current teaching methods?

Would it have any repercussions on a white dominated work society? On that, I think a number of factors come into play which may conflict with current status quo.

Fileds like Nursing, medicine, and teaching can come into conflict because of traditionally varyingmethods which would not be to the benifit of the big corporations.

Itwould definately be an opportunity for more African/Carribeans to learn alot more about what is indeginouswhy it is crucial to maintain and appreciate it.