<p>I have gone to a predominantly white school since I was 4.
I am black. I am mixed. I am hispanic.
My grandmother really wanted me to consider an HBCU, but to me, it’s simply not for me. I feel that in a society where I am a minority, I should know how to deal with being a minority. Granted, some choose to stay in the “comfort zone” of homogeneous race, but, having been the minority all my life, I know that I have grown stronger because of it, and excelled in that way. While I don’t think it is bad to have hbcu’s or wrong to go to them at all, it intrigues me how you don’t see that many whites thinking about going to them. But, I also think that if the ultimate goal is integration, this makes that harder. Not that they aren’t a place to cohesively grow with people who are similar to you, and yes that is okay, and often necessary, but how about figuring out a way to do so within the context of being a minority.</p>