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This play was an amazing play and the messages from in were phenomenal.   I learned more about the struggles that were up North after the civil war. While growing up and learning about it in school, nobody really spoke on how that African Americans were still very much discrimination and racial tension up North. Everyone would just preach about how black men, women, and children were so eager to retreat to the north in look for some kind of safety and deal with less racism. However, racial discrimination is one of the things that was similar to the North and South. It may not have been as bad as it was down South, but African Americans still dealt with conflict.    Racial conflict showed up in Wilson’s play. There is still racial conflict in this world that we live in and we need to do our best to fight it to bring it down.

The poem "This" by Latorial Faison speaks about the unfair treatment of African American men and women in the world right now. Due to the color of our skin we our profiled and violated as human beings. Being shot, beaten, and bothered for being ourselves in our skin. For black people, it is always shoot first, then ask questions later. Being a black man in the world we live is a greater nightmare than anything else in this world.

This year was my first time experiencing Homecoming on this campus. Throughout my experience, I can say that being here with my people feels more and more pure. What I have noticed is that at an HBCU is just different. Being at an HBCU, they are so special because they were the only schools African Americans had at one point for quality education for African Americans. In other school systems in high school, you rarely hear about the real history of African Americans but at an HBCU, you learn more about African Americans. Also, at an HBCU you have a chance to see a teacher or people of power above you which shows you can be in a position like that as well. Being here, it helped me realize that no matter what happened to the people in my past, that we can always prevail.