Howard Boys presentation response.

Of course everyone has noticed the ratio difference of male students verses female students here at Howard University. Until my classmates’ presentation, I just assumed this was a “girl school” and that is how it has always been. But now I wonder, what the ratio was in the founding or beginning years of Howard University? I believe that everyone (male or female) has their own reasons for attending their college or deciding whether to attend school at all. But it is in our history as African Americans to not be equal enough to receive a healthy opportunity for education. In some cases that I have witnessed, it is not expected from African American males to be successful. Society takes on a major role in raising young men; older men and the media often influence them. If their influences are not encouraging them to be successful in school, then it is partially society’s fault for them not achieving. I think we need more black lawyers and doctors. Nevertheless, I do not agree with the comment “they turn to sports as the easy way out”. There are plenty of talented males who can actually make a living off of athletics. Other factors in the denigration of black men achieving are location and finance. I understand that when there is a hindrance that you cannot control as a child, it takes one with great ambition to aspire a good education. In some cases that is the least of a black man’s worries (after staying alive and making money). The time and hard work it takes to receive the proper education seems so long and hard compared to illegal hustles. I do wish that more men would strive for a school like Howard but the least I wish for is that they strive for something period.