Comments on: I Noticed You Noticing Me

By: Sugar

Sugar — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:11:06 +0000

What’s worse is when it happens at work! I’m the youngest Black chick at my company and there are about two or three older Black women. I kind of assumed they’d be like mentors and show me the ropes of navigating this spot. One of them is cool and very helpful. The other one acts like one of those slaves that would have told the master if you were planning a revolt.

By: T

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:11:11 +0000

I so feel this post. I remember going to some kind of wine tasting function or something a few years ago and saw like two other Blacks there. So I call myself moseying on over there to start a convo only to be greeted with, “so you came over here just because we’re the only other Blacks here, huh?” lol Needless to say, my visit wasn’t very long. That chick’s (did I mention she looked a mess which made it even more curious she had such a stank attitude, lol) rudeness was my foray into the “You’re on your own around
some ‘Blacks’” world. *Sigh* Cornel was right, all our skin folk ain’t our kinfolk. But whatever…

Good post
T

By: Miss One

Miss One — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:46:18 +0000

I had the same reaction, going from HBCU to all white grad school and was baffled that the Black people didn’t speak to each other. One time I was in the computer room and this Black girl said, “hey, aren’t you in my class?” I so wanted to turn around and say, “you know I am, we’re the only two Black people there…” Sigh…

By: Bulletproof Diva

Bulletproof Diva — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:18:44 +0000

If you consider some of the people that get into HBCUs are the first generations to do so in their family. When you come from a poor/uneducated background, and you start a new cycle, it makes sense that you would proudly shout your accomplishments, not to mention feeling like you are apart of something bigger than you are.

as irritating as it could be, I would understand the bravado that many of they/us may have.

By: Hostess

Hostess — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:17:06 +0000

“Niggas from HBCU’s and lightskinned or mixed Black chicks. Militans all around.”

I’m not gonna even talk about the post because it was the above line from your comment that reminded me why I hate you and openly question your sexxxy!

By: panama

panama — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:11:54 +0000

Hmm…what you’re speaking of doesn’t surprise for two reasons.

1) You’re talking about Morehouse’s Alphas and though I graduated 6 years ago, our Alphas were very much on this we are Alpha hear us roar type rah-rah shit. I know a lot of them and liked them individually, but as a unit, they were a bit much and had a strange sense of “look at us, you are not worthy-ness”. It wasn’t all of them, but it doesn’t surprise me. In one sense, they were just really happy be Alphas and took that shit with them everywhere they went. I can’t knock pride, but it was borderline obnoxious, even when I was there and they’d first came back onto the yard.

2) When most of us enter HBCU’s, we get a lesson in being Black. And further, we get a lesson in not letting the fact that you’re Black ever hold you back. We get taught to hold your head high and let people know who you are. Now, some folks run with that and turn it into the “I’m Black man of Black school. I’m real nigga. You’re not.” Which doesn’t make much sense to me. I think its the same thing that causes some Morehouse cats to run with being from Morehouse so much so that they proclaim it to everybody and badger anybody who ain’t a ‘House cat.

On the flipside, I remember my freshman year at Morehouse. My girlfriend went to GA State and I remember he Black male friends always had this attempt to show us how real they were. They went out of their way to be Black and shit. It’s like the Red Sox and Yankees. They were the Sox and wanted us to know and pay attention and we (Yankees) kind of didn’t care cuz we weren’t looking to define out Black existence. Not saying it happened to everybody but its been done.

Then of course you know niggas from HBCU’s tend to be militant at times. Maybe that’s the answer in a nutshell.

Niggas from HBCU’s and lightskinned or mixed Black chicks. Militans all around.

By: Jarrod Halsey

Jarrod Halsey — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:37:17 +0000

Ok, Morehouse grad. Tell me something. As a graduate from the white private school not too far from the AUC (come on, it ain’t too hard to figure out), I noticed (pretty much once a semester and ALWAYS at the A Phi A “Bare as You Dare” Party) that MAD Morehouse cats (usually Greeks) would come onto our campus as if we’ve never seen black people before. They expected the white people to run away like the Japanese do when Godzilla hits Tokyo, and they expect all the black people to be in awe, as if we’ve never in our lives seen a large group of black people.

And just in general, many times when I met AUC cats, I always got this “oh what, you too good to go to a HBCU, uppity nigga?” vibe. What’s that about? At first I thought I was just being paranoid. But by my senior year, there was one time when like 30-40 cats were just strolling down Frat Row yelling “DA HOUSE!” and “This is OUR campus!”

Care to shed some light?