The Griffon News

by Moses D Fields Jr, a proud student at Missouri Western State University

How dare you prematurely accentuate that one group of minorities need to be in High School. Who gave you the audacity to judge an entire race at Missouri Western State University, which you obviously don’t know anything about. Let me explain our culture to you since you lack the needed diversity training. We, as African Americans our a proud, out spoken, and passionate culture. We boldly support the things that mean something to us, and will stop at nothing for our voice to be heard. So yes when you get several opinionated individuals around each other the volume will increase, just like anywhere you go in America.

The only thing I remotely agree with you on is that the profane language, obscene gestures need to stop. Everyone must have a part of, since it doesn’t come from just one race. I want you to understand that “we” our not the only one that is guilty of this. I assume that you have school sprit, so I want you to go to a public football game and listen to students of all ethic backgrounds behaving the same way that you assumed that we do, in front of family alumni, and children. But to judge us as “we” all need to go back to High School is boarder line racist. Especially how you single handedly singled out an entire race. That’s as if I seen some European Americans dancing with no rhythm then I assume that all European Americans do not have rhythm.  Would I be correct in writing about that in the News Paper? No I wouldn’t.

 What you did was the same thing Hitler did during the holocaust. In saying that our race is not ready for College, we are lacking maturity, home training, and that we our an inferior race and that we should go back to, concentration camps (high school). College is about how to grow as human beings. Yes, everyone can grow and learn; even you.

So before you walk through Blum Lobby and glance at few and assume that “we” vandalize our propriety that all students bought through our tuition. Before you assume that there was a “fight” at one of “our” functions; please do your research or even stop and sit and talk to these students, get to know our culture, and you might learn something. You might learn that all students study in between classes, some laugh and joke and the some have 3.0. 3.5, or even 4.0’s. We are all here to learn, grow, and mature. Allow us to do so, for us to adapt to a new culture of college life. We all get the same education, we all come from different backgrounds, we all can learn from each other. I ask you not to judge us on what some have witness from few students. Do not judge our race because of a couple of students that our going through learning fazes. In addition we will not judge an entire race over some idiot that doesn’t have enough diversity training to properly understand “one groups” culture.