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[ForgoTheConsequence]

Why Some Colleges Don't Seem to Be Meant for Brown Students

So when I strutted into my private university’s library in graduate school and found my first actual silent library, I wanted to crawl out of my skin. I found it suffocating. It was the first time I began to realize how much this space was not meant for me. I already had people question the validity of my enrollment, but you come to expect that when your middle school guidance counselor says you will never amount to anything. But an entire building communicating that an institution of higher education was not built for your kind was NOT something I was prepared for.

I gave up trying to learn how to study in silence because silence is a privilege I never had and silence is reserved for the privileged. I was now in an institution reserved for elites and I was not an elite in the slightest. Even the damn building told me so. I do not have a colonizer's mentality, nor do I seek to claim one. This mentality has only done a disservice to us since the beginning of time. I have a survivor's mentality, and I was able to thrive in grad school once I realized that my context made me resilient enough to survive even spaces meant to destroy me.


http://www.vivala.com/education/higher-education-latina-decolonizing-silence/4093?utm_content=vivala_fanpage&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=sm



I don't know if this is satire or not.