Get dressed to go to class not to go to the club.

I am still perplexed by the women that dress at the height of fashion while attending college. And yet I recall from memory seeing more young white women dressed in athletic shorts with writing sprawled across their butts and simple college team t-shirts than white women dressed at fashions height. Still I would not be quick to say that every such dressed white woman is focused intently on her studies, but what it does is makes her part of the typical college crowd and takes away the suggestion, at least outwardly that she is there to be seen.

Now this is of course is hardly a scientific finding. I have no data to support this claim and yet I am tempted to suggest that it seems Negroes of both genders seem to go to college for all the wrong reasons. Or rather what I would consider reasons inferior to obtaining an education. Now, again, this is merely observation and speculation. I cannot know the heart's of others but what I can know is their appearance to society and how Americans view them. I would be hard pressed to suggest that given the dress and the attention it undoubtedly garnishes the first and immediate concern of some of the college attending black women I have seen is education.

I would be remiss however to leave unsaid that the Negro males sometimes do carry the same attitude. There are various reasons individual and social for the apparent apathy for education. However at this time I offer no suggestions for remedy at this time. I do however take heart in the progress of the charter schools in Harlem. I pray the younger generation is strong in character and determination. I pray that they go to college for all the right reasons and when they speak of schools their main concern is not “How the bitches be lookin.”