Speaker 1: We got we come to my own. I don't get it,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's a little bit offered this,
Speaker 1: but it is has to do it. That's black people.
Speaker 1: You know. We talk about legacy organizations and you can't
Speaker 1: really talk about black legacy organizations without talking about HBCUs,
Speaker 1: you know. And unfortunately, I had an opportunity to go
Speaker 1: to Howard Campus a couple of days ago, and I
Speaker 1: really don't get this situation at all, Like I am
Speaker 1: so completely lost, you know. I looked went to a
Speaker 1: campus and seen young black men, young men and women
Speaker 1: sleeping intense sleeping in the buildings, talking of giving me
Speaker 1: blow blow by blows, and how there's mold in their rooms,
Speaker 1: how they don't even have WiFi, how they're paying fifty
Speaker 1: dollars to do online calasses, how people were just some
Speaker 1: of them have been told to come to the campus
Speaker 1: because they had living and they didn't have nowhere for
Speaker 1: them to live, and they have to sleep in cars.
Speaker 1: Some of them talking about how the meal prep is
Speaker 1: so disgusting that you wouldn't even eat it if you
Speaker 1: was in prison. Like it was embarrassing because you know,
Speaker 1: as a young boy hearing about HBCUs I never went
Speaker 1: to one, but I have a lot of friends and
Speaker 1: family who have been to hbc U s and I
Speaker 1: watched school Days, and I wanted to be part of that,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted. I wanted to go to hbc
Speaker 1: U so to see that this is the experience of
Speaker 1: young freshman's and and and a lot of them saying
Speaker 1: this is we don't have anything else. We we can't
Speaker 1: fail here, you know, like they're saying that they're not
Speaker 1: even giving their courses properly. They don't have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to excel. They've given up everything, their mother took out,
Speaker 1: the loans they took out, put leans on their homes,
Speaker 1: all type of things. To be able to come to
Speaker 1: this experience and to see that this is what they're
Speaker 1: going through. They they had some of them had tears
Speaker 1: in their eyes. We had tears and just listened to
Speaker 1: the story. And I really just don't get how the
Speaker 1: administration and how it allowed the situation to get to this.
Speaker 1: You know, Well, let me say that there's a few
Speaker 1: things on that um Howard administration. Of course, they have heavy, heavy, heavy,
Speaker 1: heavy load and burden that they have to answer to
Speaker 1: as it relates to the conditions of the students absolutely um,
Speaker 1: even if they feel that some of it is misunderstandings overblown.
Speaker 1: I've heard all types of responses. They need to speak
Speaker 1: to it. They need to speak to the students directly,
Speaker 1: not try to isolate one or two students, but to
Speaker 1: speak to all the students in an open format um.
Speaker 1: That gives them, the students, the opportunity to ask questions,
Speaker 1: to bring grievances, and that puts the administration sation in
Speaker 1: a place where they will respond to what they can
Speaker 1: respond to, where they will be able to hear um
Speaker 1: and and here without um, without animosity and age a
Speaker 1: jerk to try to you know, well, we're gonna silence
Speaker 1: you by um having you thrown out of school. It
Speaker 1: would be best for them to show up and get
Speaker 1: their sleeves rolled up and get into what is happening
Speaker 1: with the students and walk alongside them to try to
Speaker 1: fix some of these issues. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: the reason why I suggest that the administration sort of
Speaker 1: roll up their sleeves and get in there with Howard
Speaker 1: is because all of it, everything that's happening, is not
Speaker 1: their fault alone. We have a problem with the funding.
Speaker 1: The real funding. Yes, granted fifty dollars, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of money from each student for the semesters. But if
Speaker 1: you go to predominantly white institutions, they are receiving more
Speaker 1: money and more support from the outside community, which are
Speaker 1: rich folks, particularly rich white folks, with endowments to help
Speaker 1: these schools succeed, and the resources that they receive from
Speaker 1: the government is completely different. At HBCUs, they are suffering
Speaker 1: severely from underfunding and from the disrespect that continues to
Speaker 1: happen over and over for black institutions within our society
Speaker 1: and by our government, and the fact that there are
Speaker 1: too many people out here who do not see the
Speaker 1: need to educate and make comfortable black students. So to
Speaker 1: be host outs towards the students, to me is a
Speaker 1: lack of foresight and it's ignorant because really they could
Speaker 1: be coming together to show that these are some of
Speaker 1: the challenges that HBCUs go through. But the problem is
Speaker 1: that we are often wanting to put up a wall
Speaker 1: and to blame the victims rather than to understand that
Speaker 1: this is a problem that has to be worked through.
Speaker 1: Mold has to be worked on, regardless of who is
Speaker 1: responsible for it. And if Calverus, which is the company
Speaker 1: UM that owns and operates most of the buildings. So
Speaker 1: people need to understand that at Howard and other schools
Speaker 1: they do not own and operate all of the housing buildings,
Speaker 1: that there are other entities that have been bought in
Speaker 1: to do that because of the lack of funding within
Speaker 1: these institutions, and Caverus UM has not done a good
Speaker 1: job just trying to clean buildings and not actually doing
Speaker 1: the renovations. It's criminal, it's wrong, and the students need
Speaker 1: to be supported, their voices need to be uplift. Then,
Speaker 1: but I think this is also a good time to
Speaker 1: get into the real layers of what's going on with HBCUs,
Speaker 1: black institutions, Black educational institutions, and to be able to
Speaker 1: see not where you can just blame um, you know,
Speaker 1: one entity or the other, but to look at the
Speaker 1: entire problem and to see how our government is also
Speaker 1: feeling black students in these colleges. That's the fact, you know,
Speaker 1: UM that that was one of the things that the kids,
Speaker 1: so they we sat and had you know, closed for
Speaker 1: him inside the auditorium in Blackburn, and which you know,
Speaker 1: we just listened to their grievances and they and they
Speaker 1: have a whole plan and Calvarius was one of the
Speaker 1: places that they talked about, and they talked about also
Speaker 1: how the administration and how you know, how it has
Speaker 1: a contract with Calvarius that they could have broken, but
Speaker 1: because they didn't want to lose money, they allowed, you know,
Speaker 1: this could continue on. So as much as Calvarius is responsible,
Speaker 1: you know, the fact that how university and who's in
Speaker 1: charge of those the board members and everyone involved in
Speaker 1: that situation, President, everyone involved in not breaking this contract
Speaker 1: is when they see that, you know, it's not being
Speaker 1: handled properly. You know, they also have to take some responsibility.
Speaker 1: And like you said, they should be. They should be
Speaker 1: sitting out there with the kids saying, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: none of our kids should have to sleep in rooms
Speaker 1: with molding, you know, so, I mean, period exactly. They
Speaker 1: should be saying that they should be together with the
Speaker 1: students saying this is outrageous. But you know what's happening
Speaker 1: instead is that every single day the story is getting
Speaker 1: worse for the administration. Now I saw that the president,
Speaker 1: they have a signed they got a big old poster
Speaker 1: and they have the president his picture. Well, you have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So unfortunately that's what's happening because there is a level
Speaker 1: of hostility that you know it's not necessary, but you know, hey,
Speaker 1: they'll figure it out. I think the sign they got
Speaker 1: all over, they got this, they got this sign all
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