How they haven made me proud....

Monday, April 27Th, was a day of reckoning some may say; the 2009-2010  school year S.G.A Executive Board Members were announced. The office everyone anticipated Miss KSU had been announced and the winner was no other than a Elizabeth Martin. To much shock it's been less than 24 hours and FB has been going bananas on the KYSU network with dismay and concern over the election results. Why, you ask? Elizabeth Martin is a Caucasian female, and Kentucky State University is an Historically Black College & University. This may not seem like that big of a deal until you look on the core and the foundations that this institute had been built on and why. It's way bigger than race but it's a fight that we as African American have fought long and hard for to have something(s) of our own. 

The office of Miss KSU is an office in which the Miss is to be the face of the university, still with me? This office has been held my 73 (I believe) strong black women, it's a part of our legacy. What a shock this was to me, I have always been brought up and taught of all the struggle my ancestors endured, to get where we as black people can go today. I'm a person that takes pride in such things, but this just put a notch in my stomach. But I say kudos to Elizabeth she accomplished what (not many) but others said shouldn't or wouldn't happen. But what did she endure. I CAN say that I'm not mad at Martin for winning(although I am battling with this) but I am disappointed in our student body. I believe that it says allot about us as a people, although she may have been better qualified for the job[many argue] she is not what the school is. 

 Many voted not for Elizabeth but against the other candidates, because of envy, jealousy & hate. This is a pivotal moment in our campus history, some are comparing it to Obama, but in no way does it compare. Obama spoke on change which we needed, not because he was black, but because the last president drug this country into a mud hole. But people say these present results are about change, but what change are they talking about? I leave you with this, will this what does this "change" say about the university as an HBCU and it's students? Hmmm I let you think on this one....

Living 4 today!

My name is Jymil I attend Kentucky State University, I am currently a Mass Communications major with a focus in PR and a Speech Comm minor. Time is approaching for me to decide where my next phase in life will be and I am a little shall I say scared of the road I want to take. I know that there is a Art Institute I want to attend but the affordability, effort and independency is whats got me looking like a dear in headlights.

In my search for an instute with like objectives and areas of study I have decided to begin by choosing locations in the U.S. that I could find myself flourishing in with my chosen field of interest, which is by the way fashion merchandising/styling/coordinating and editing, with a dash of cosmetology. So someplace with diversity, culture, high fashion and room for a spotlight I see: chicago, cali, boston, ny, fla. I am definately keeping my options open when it comes to location, maybe considering a smaller place to start and move my way up.

Who is to say but now i am finishing up my last few weeks of school and then summer classes and on to my last school year. So I will definately, focus on the grades of now and think about my movements of the future...maybe tomorrow!! LOL