African Americans

lalalexi08
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:40:14 +0000

I’m an African-American student at UT and I’ve been here for three years. Orientation just states the facts in terms of numbers, but because the black community at UT is pretty tight-knit, it feels as though there are a lot of black students here. However, once you step outside of the community and go to class, or other events that are not geared towards black students, you start to see what they mean when they say that African-Americans on campus are few in number. But hey, if you involve yourself in the black community, it doesn’t feel that way.

Also, just because people tend to associate with those that are like them doesn’t mean that people don’t talk to other individuals. I have friends of all races and ethnicities here at UT because I branched out and involved myself in a lot of different organizations, not just those in the black community.

I haven’t encountered much discrimination here at UT except for the random ignorant comment here or there, or a drunken comment in west campus, but hey, we live in Texas, so these things tend to happen (not that it makes them okay).