*facepalms*

Furthermore, I’m all for calling things as they are. That being said, Sister Toldja is racist and a bigot. She has made this clear with her comments above and her blog posts.

I think it’s sad, but she is free to her own beliefs and opinions. Regardless, lets call it by its ugly name instead trying to plead with someone who is obviously arrogant regarding her intolerance and ignorance.

I’m frankly saddened by her naive “us vs them” philosophy. She feels she is driving home poignant statements when she refers to the “privleged majority”, “the old assimilationist Negro rhetoric” and how her “level of militancy may discomfort the White folks you so eagerly pander to”. Her statement regarding “history” also upset me. If she truly was a student of history, she would realize three things.

One, that the privileged majority (which in and of itself is an oxymoron in the modern US) has very little to do with race alone.

Two, that isolationist philosophies are both economically and socially self-destructive.

Three, and perhaps the most damning regarding her mentality, that her beliefs are *specifically* what those with racist intentions (re: slaveholders, etc) attempted to foster to keep slaves infighting and feeling disgusted with themselves as inferior rather than to realize the opportunities that lay available (including revolt or running for freedom).

I suggest she ponder the following sage advice from someone I respect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO214IFRW1M

One final point. Only ~29% of the country graduates with a 4-year degree from post-secondary. I am not one of them. I couldn’t afford college, nor was I talented at extra-curricular activities or have the academic excellence that earns scholarships.

Considering people with degrees tend to a) qualify for more positions and get hired at larger salaries, b) assume positions of management/power/control, and c) tend to favor their co-graduates when hiring/placing people…

Perhaps she should stop feeling sorry and self-righteous about her lot in life and take a hard look at her own privileged status?

And Matisse-
I like what you said, “Being black is no longer a race, it is an attitude… it’s a frame of mind, the whole world is trying to emulate!”
Definitely gives the mind something to ponder about.

Having said that, Sister Toldja bascially played herself from the start because she shouldn’t have even blogged about a school that she didn’t go to because, as Aaron already explained, she knows nothing of the HU culture, doesn’t even know who Samuel Chaplain Armstrong is and would have a hard time naming the buildings surrounding the Booker T. Washington statue (and why there’s a statue of him in the first place…well she might know that-but does she know his story of how he got there?).

Blog about Bison business…that’s all I’m saying. That’s what disgusts me the most about her submission. Regardless that her views are totally skewed in my opinion, submissions by people like BadMemories and MsBrklyn tells me that she’s not alone, and that there are Hamptonians that have issues with a White Homecoming Queen-after all, that’s what sparked Ms. Churchill to write a letter to our President in the first place.

But again, the voice of a minority group of people doesn’t speak for the group as a whole; and as all of us Hampton Alumni know this issue sent shockwaves across the Alumni community-not because of the shock of the fact that a White woman was crowned Miss HU, but because of her letter to the President. Was I taken aback when I found out Miss HU was white? Of course, because that’s not something I think about (not to mention I was at a chili cook-off with my girls having a beer and the topic just randomly came up). But a split second later, my response was…”she must have earned it.” Her letter, as she knows now, offended thousands, where less than 100 students at the time had given her a hard time. It was over the top an unwarranted.

In my opinion, am I in my right to blog about this? Yes, because I’m a Hamptonian and I have more knowledge about the situation because Hampton University’s culture has been rooted within me. Of course that doesn’t mean someone doesn’t have “the right” to do it…I mean it’s in the Bill of Rights, so I don’t mean it that way. What I mean is that you’d be hard pressed to find a Hamptonian blogging about an issue that happened at Howard.

P.S. This isn’t the first White Miss HBCU–Sister Toldja, did you blog about Miss Kentucky State last year???

But anyway, besides the fact that you misspelled some words AND that you called us HAMPTONITES instead of HAMPTONIANS made you lose all credibility and I stopped reading your post. Get it together. The Howard alum’s post was on point, analytically.

I do not think that have never read such venomous tripe written by a black woman in my life before today. It was so sincerely asinine that one would think the whole purpose was to present black women or at least Howard women as “scornfully petty”.

But anyways, I would like “sister toldja” to blog about her experiences attending a university named after a white man and filled with his pictures. Surely that had to have some detrimental effect on her “blackness”