It only took several months during my matriculation and having the notable, “HBCU experience” to realize that my many years of public, European based education had failed me. As the prominent UNCF motto states, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” While reading The Mis-Education of the Negro, by Carter G.Woodson during the summer entering my senior year of high school, I realized my mind was deprived the knowledge of my rich, black culture thanks to mental oppression. Though I excelled within my academic studies, I had wasted many years subconsciously conforming to be accepted in the white community and shamelessly abandoning my own. As so eloquently expressed in Woodson’s novel, “When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry
