Chapy's Corner
"So You Graduate From LU, an HBCU…Now What?"
Dr. Eric Anthony Joseph
Issue date: 5/6/09 Section: Opinion
--The up-scale living in Scholars' Inn and the parental style living of the Commons;
--The fall-outs and competition between fraternities and sororities, as well as the jig-a-boos versus the want-a-bees;
--The praying for victory to be found by our great mighty Lion Athletic teams;
--Baby-momma and baby-daddy dramas;
--The anointed prayers for a negative reading from your medical exams;
--T he lack of "bling-bling" to buy basic necessities or to get your "weave" tightened or a simple edge-up or haircut;
--The "chillin" at the Student Union or on the Yard;
--The reconstruction, renovation, and revivals on our campus;
--Playa haters trying to detour you from graduating;
--The unfortunate passing of students, colleagues, friends, and family members before their gerontological time; and of course,
--Successfully voting into office by a landslide our 44th U.S. President the Hon. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., a 47 year-old Afrikan-American Christian and faithful family man.
As 1970s Disco songstress Gloria Gaynor once said in a popular song, "You Have [I Will] Survived!"
Dictionary.com defines "Commencement," when it functions as a noun as, "the time at which something begins." Thus graduation day is your birthday! LU, this is only the beginning of a life-time. This is only a comma in your young life not a period!
You graduates are now part of an "elite" and privileged group. For instance, did you not know that only one (1%) percent of the people on earth have a college education. Only 1 out of 100 people in the world possess a college degree.
Thus, in the "it is cool to be smart era of Obama," it is a privilege to be educated for God has selected you to be part of this rare group. God has allowed you to not only live a self-less lifestyle, but to minister to and empower others who are less fortunate than yourselves. You have courageously survived and excelled here upon the hill to give back. You did not give up like so many
--The fall-outs and competition between fraternities and sororities, as well as the jig-a-boos versus the want-a-bees;
--The praying for victory to be found by our great mighty Lion Athletic teams;
--Baby-momma and baby-daddy dramas;
--The anointed prayers for a negative reading from your medical exams;
--T he lack of "bling-bling" to buy basic necessities or to get your "weave" tightened or a simple edge-up or haircut;
--The "chillin" at the Student Union or on the Yard;
--The reconstruction, renovation, and revivals on our campus;
--Playa haters trying to detour you from graduating;
--The unfortunate passing of students, colleagues, friends, and family members before their gerontological time; and of course,
--Successfully voting into office by a landslide our 44th U.S. President the Hon. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., a 47 year-old Afrikan-American Christian and faithful family man.
As 1970s Disco songstress Gloria Gaynor once said in a popular song, "You Have [I Will] Survived!"
Dictionary.com defines "Commencement," when it functions as a noun as, "the time at which something begins." Thus graduation day is your birthday! LU, this is only the beginning of a life-time. This is only a comma in your young life not a period!
You graduates are now part of an "elite" and privileged group. For instance, did you not know that only one (1%) percent of the people on earth have a college education. Only 1 out of 100 people in the world possess a college degree.
Thus, in the "it is cool to be smart era of Obama," it is a privilege to be educated for God has selected you to be part of this rare group. God has allowed you to not only live a self-less lifestyle, but to minister to and empower others who are less fortunate than yourselves. You have courageously survived and excelled here upon the hill to give back. You did not give up like so many
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