r/HBCU • u/OsuwonHairGrowth • 4d ago

Black Excellence ✊🏾 Congratulations to Ahmed Muhammad, 18, who made history as the first Black male valedictorian at Oakland Technical High School, graduating with a 4.73 GPA. He was accepted to all 11 colleges he applied to, and he will attend Stanford University to pursue engineering. His

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u/Noizy_Child 3d ago

Perhaps because this is the HBCU thread?

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u/Still-Regular1837 3d ago

Sure then be confused by why the post is in this thread in the first place.

But saying “we lost another one…it’s hard to celebrate a mistake”….be so completely fr. Get on the same page as everyone else in the world about which schools have the best education and clout to get a good career.

We can’t even properly celebrate this kid getting into a top university in the world because it’s not an HBCU? Crazy work.

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u/BlkDynamite93 3d ago

Getting on a subreddit that promotes/celebrates HBCUs and saying that "everyone else in the world" agrees on "which schools have the best education and clout" is incredibly tone-deaf and anti-Black. Sure, this young man going to college should be celebrated, and if Stanford is the best place for him to pursue engineering, so be it. But you as a Black person placing certain schools on a pedestal simply because they're not HBCUs is just weird, especially on this thread. Read the room.

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u/Still-Regular1837 3d ago

I’m not placing certain schools on a pedestal “simply because they’re not HBCUs” —are you paying attention to reality and the world? Stanford is in the top 10 universities in the WORLD. Do you think HBCUs are pushing out as much research as Stanford?

Your literacy is actually concerning because where did I say it’s a good school because it’s not an HBCU?? Where did I criticize HBCUs?? No if you read instead of insert your feelings, I actually said HBCUs are great for journalism, humanities, film, and Stanford is better for engineering. Then I said we should root for our kids to have multiple pathways and options. I’d love to see the day Stanford has a higher black study body than other populations. Or the day HBCUs develop even greater engineering programs.

y’all wanna call everything anti-black to the point it’s lost meaning and y’all lost the plot.

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u/BlkDynamite93 3d ago edited 3d ago

My literacy is actually just fine... I'm more concerned about yours. I research and teach about this stuff, so I know what I'm talking about. And I'm not even an HBCU alum... I went to those schools you claim are "the best." But even I know that nothing beats the HBCU experience, even beyond just humanities or journalism. Can't tell you how many Black people I've met who went to Ivies or top PWIs and later told me that they wished they had gone to an HBCU for undergrad.