Our Political Discourse

When will the black community ever realize that education is mandatory and not just a resource that can be used.  Here at Howard, I believe that to be a part of the “best and brightest” you should first off find out what your reasoning is , your purpose, what you are planning on dedicating the rest of your life to, your major. Next while finding yourself and developing into someone that has restraint and strive to be someone better and helpful to society that you do take the right courses to tend to your success. Also I believe that your activity in your school and your surrounding community helps you become a better individual and when you have that resource then you are capable of achieving anything. Like Dr. Alvin Thornton addressed in his lecture that you have to keep up your grades not just because you want to be seen as hardworking but you want to get something out of educating yourself every day, getting knowledge that you are now paying for and make it worth it. Starting your higher education at Howard is already a good start you just need to “participate” in wanting to make a difference. Take your citizenship to another level.

To be a citizen of the world is a very vague perspective but there are many stepping stools that you can take to become someone that really matters and who is persevering to make a change in someone’s life besides their own. My citizenship informs me that I have a voice and that even though there are laws and rules but that I have the capability in breaking them in order to form a better nation. I honestly think that to be called a citizen period, being that we are all mainly African American , that we should use this advantage to want to do better for our people. I remember when there was a time when “we” were not even considered to be a human being. We as African Americans should take the word citizen and change its meaning.

Sorry to say, but I have not done my research on respectable Howard Alumni but I do know of Terrance Howard, Teraji P. Henson, and I few others who have attended this university and that have made a difference. I believe that they got the respects because they came to college and proved to everyone that they were not going to be another statistic; seeing how they are all successful, and now giving back and representing what Howard University is all about. Their art of work inspires me to become someone better, that everyone can look up to in a respectful and highly way. I tend to make a difference, I just do not know how I will, yet.