<p>ForeverAlone, obviously HBCUs are not ethnically diverse, but diversity extends far beyond racial backgrounds. Much more diverse than the average state school just by the geographical representation of the student body. </p>
<p>I don’t see how it is segregation. Just as a white would choose to attend a predominantly white university, a black chooses to attend a predominantly black one.</p>
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And a 3.0 GPA? Is that also top 20%</p>
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<p>You should probably take a statistics course. A black person chooses a black college because it is predominantly black. You can’t say the same for a white person because the national population is predominantly white.</p>
<p>Congrats on graduating, Vladenschlutte. </p>
<p>I’m only a freshman, and I’m in LSA, but I see black students on campus pretty frequently. One of my acquaintances is black, I sat next to a black girl in English, and I typically saw a group of blacks in my psychology lecture. I do admit, my Math class had no blacks, and I can’t remember seeing any in my Econ class.</p>
<p>I think in general the non-black students are pretty friendly to the black ones. I don’t see any outright discrimination. There is a small notion that black people had the help of affirmative action for acceptance, but I don’t think people are very bitter about it.</p>
<p>Great question, detpeace. Vladdenschutte is on the money when (s)he says people keep with their own. I was recruited pretty heavily by a handful of cultural, ethnic, and religious clubs several weeks before my first classes started. That’s not an uncommon experience for Wolverines of color. By senior year students, especially the ones involved in the social justice scene, see a need for a “safe space for identity X” and go about creating and populating the space with people of similar backgrounds (often underclassmen). If you wanted to replicate the HBCU experience (outside the classroom, anyway) you could likely do so using student groups.</p>
<p>Racism hasn’t died out in Ann Arbor. No, we don’t have Governor Snyder channelling George Wallace, and I like to think that we’re a fairly respectful bunch of people. But if you listen hard enough you’ll hear ugly things said about black students. “Microaggressions” describes a share of these and other unpleasant interactions. How you fare will vary depending on what you choose to focus on as well as what resources (MESA, CAPS, OSCR, etc.) you avail yourself of.</p>
<p>If someone started a BWUM movement they would be called racist, unless of course if the W stands for women, then they would be praised for embracing diversity. What a joke. </p>
<p>“No, we don’t have Governor Snyder channelling George Wallace”
Lol looks like someone needs to stop listening to comrade jesse jackson. Man I guess Jesse Jr’s legal trouble didn’t keep him occupied enough from putting out crap like this.</p>
<p>There is no proper reason for a BWUM movement. Whites are the majority race on campus. The reason for social movements and advocacy groups like these are to protect and promote the ideas and interests of minorities.</p>