I just got back from a week long training that was held on the Howard University campus.

While I was in the training, I commented to another trainee [a male about my age] that Howard must have a 3 to 1 [at least] female to male ratio and each woman looked better than the next. But I noticed a lot of men had a certain "swish and sweetness" about them.

He commented that he had noticed it too.

We both said "WHY?"

I'm a second generation Howardite....

The Black Male Revolutionary environment was crushed....

thoroughly......


I think this has a LOT to do with it....

I'll say no more...


Peace,
Virtue

I dont know why this happening.......but i can tell you that young black women, are feeling this..........and its painful.

LMAO @ "swish and sweetness"!

Oh I gotta remember that one in the future!

lost me- swish and sweetness??

Pls explain.

I believe Kweli is implying the men were gay or effeminate.

phew...... i was thinking about going there. never mind.

Understand caribbean that most HBCU environments are going to have a higher than average Black gay population. When you get to Spelman, you'll see it too. In fact, there is a well-known lesbian/gay organization at the school. When you go to CAU & Morehouse, you'll see this too. The liberal arts environment is typically a more comfortable millieu for openly expressing sexual preference.

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Originally posted by Blacksanction:
lost me- swish and sweetness??

Pls explain.

Well ... Let me note, I literally saw a man skipping along the sidewalk while calling out to a group of men.

Yes, I was referring to the prevalence of effeminate males.

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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:

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Originally posted by Blacksanction:
lost me- swish and sweetness??

Pls explain.

Well ... Let me note, I literally saw a man skipping along the sidewalk while calling out to a group of men.

Yes, I was referring to the prevalence of effeminate males.

I'm in graduate school at Ohio State and I have a black man (I won't call him brotha) in one of my classes....fruiter than the garden of eden. And he's loud. And boisterous. And talkitive. And he keeps picking the seat right next to me.

I lived near howard for a few years and its not just the black males on campus with strong homosexual activity, its the women as well. Its a reflection of the feminization of our culture and society. Homosexuality is so overwhelmingly prevelant in this generation of black youth its truely scary

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its not just the black males on campus with strong homosexual activity, its the women as well

Yeah, I saw that too; but I don't know about this:

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Its a reflection of the feminization of our culture and society.

I don't know that our culture/society is becoming feminized; Or, that homosexual=feminization.

I do know that as a full-on heterosexual Black male on a campus where females out number males 6 to 1, I'd find it extremely difficult to be monogamus, not have 12-18 dates a week.

Okay...I've decided that my lowly H.S. education is insufficient. I'm putting in for a transfer within the Company. I want to better myself, I want...to go... To Howard. (Now, don't anybody tell my wife about the ratio thing, WE COOL?

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Originally posted by thayfen:
Okay...I've decided that my lowly H.S. education is insufficient. I'm putting in for a transfer within the Company. I want to better myself, I want...to go... To Howard. (Now, don't anybody tell my wife about the ratio thing, WE COOL?

This is why when brothas say, that they cant find an educated, beautiful sista..........im surprized.

Ohhh and btw Thayfen, im telling your wife.!

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Originally posted by xxGAMBITxx:

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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:

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Originally posted by Blacksanction:
lost me- swish and sweetness??

Pls explain.

Well ... Let me note, I literally saw a man skipping along the sidewalk while calling out to a group of men.

Yes, I was referring to the prevalence of effeminate males.

I'm in graduate school at Ohio State and I have a black man (I won't call him brotha) in one of my classes....fruiter than the garden of eden. And he's loud. And boisterous. And talkitive. And he keeps picking the seat right next to me.

DROP THAT CLASS BRUH!!! DROP THAT CLASS!!!

WOW -- gotta keep all this in mind.

I took my neice and her best friend to Atlanta last year to attend the SOBU and to tour the Spelman/Morehouse/Morris Brown complex. I dropped them off for a day of shopping at the big mall down there. When I picked them up. their biggest comments were about how many young, Black gay males they saw shopping together.

Needless to say, they crossed Atlanta off the list and I am now hoping they will choose FAMU as their HBCU experience for grad school.

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Originally posted by qty226:
I dont know why this happening.......but i can tell you that young black women, are feeling this..........and its painful.

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Originally posted by ddouble:
Understand caribbean that most HBCU environments are going to have a higher than average Black gay population. When you get to Spelman, you'll see it too. In fact, there is a well-known lesbian/gay organization at the school. When you go to CAU & Morehouse, you'll see this too. The liberal arts environment is typically a more comfortable millieu for openly expressing sexual preference.

No, you get a high ratio of gays in higher education because we're alot less likely to fall for the bullshit that sucks up straight men. That all the high school girls want thugs mean nothing to us, so we have no use for trying to be one. And we're used to not having a bunch of friends to maintain a rep for, since nobody wants to be our friend, so we don't get caught up in the dead-end networking that leads to contentment in merely having esteem amongst your nobody pals, esteem maintained by an insular honor code. None of that ever means anything to us, so the only other option is thinking about our real-world futures. Don't begrudge us for doing well.

I don't begrudge you Dr. Snacks - I didn't think my comments were negative. Thanks for adding perspective to the thread.

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Originally posted by ddouble:
I don't begrudge you Dr. Snacks - I didn't think my comments were negative. Thanks for adding perspective to the thread.

Sorry. The "begrudge" was a response to some of the replies in general. I quoted your response because I don't think that the percentage of gays in college is only the result of the free liberal arts environment.