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