Latest / The Breakfast Club / IDKMYDE: HBCUs vs PBIs
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- 0:00Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Let's talk about HBCUs and PBIS. Now, for those that
- 0:07Speaker 1: don't know HBCUs historically black colleges and universities, I knew
- 0:12Speaker 1: all about those. I am a product of one Winston
- 0:15Speaker 1: Salem State University six oh one MLK driving Winston Salem,
- 0:19Speaker 1: North Carolina. However, I had no clue about PBIS predominantly
- 0:24Speaker 1: Black institutions, HBCU, PBI. Look, if you think black education
- 0:29Speaker 1: don't got acronyms, you're wrong. We got more letters than
- 0:32Speaker 1: the alphabet. Suit. We ain't growing up, ain't it. I
- 0:34Speaker 1: didn't know you no, I didn't know. I didn't know.
- 0:40Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
- 0:44Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. All right, Now, let's start
- 0:47Speaker 1: with the HBCUs, They the ogs. These schools go way back,
- 0:51Speaker 1: like before your grandma's grandma was even thinking about having kids.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Back you did what I'm saying. First, one Cheney University
- 0:57Speaker 1: eighteen thirty seven. That's right, Black folks was out here
- 1:01Speaker 1: educating themselves when slavery was still happening. Imagine trying to
- 1:04Speaker 1: study algebra when people out here trying to enslave you.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Now that's some dedication. HBCUs were like, y'all don't want
- 1:10Speaker 1: to send your schools. Cool, we'll build our own schools.
- 1:14Speaker 1: And they did it big, Howard Spellman more House, HBCU Homecomings.
- 1:19Speaker 1: You know the vibes. If you never been the one,
- 1:21Speaker 1: you're missing out now. PBIS that's Donnie and Mark and
- 1:24Speaker 1: Joey and Jordan them, you know, new kids on the block.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Cause PBIS came later. They're like, we might not have
- 1:30Speaker 1: the history, but we're here for the hustle. See. Pbis
- 1:33Speaker 1: are schools located in urban areas where most of us live.
- 1:37Speaker 1: And they said, listen, black students are here, We see you.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Let's make this work. But pbis weren't always for us.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Some of them started as regular old colleges and then
- 1:47Speaker 1: looked around and said, oh snap, half our students as black.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Guess we're PBI. Now. Now here's the thing. Both HBCUs
- 1:54Speaker 1: and PBIS are here to lift us up. They're about
- 1:57Speaker 1: helping us get degrees, build careers, and to help you
- 2:00Speaker 1: stop having to ask for your mama's car. And both
- 2:03Speaker 1: are cranking out black excellence. HBCUs gave us Martin Luther
- 2:06Speaker 1: King Junior, Oprah and Chadwick Boseman pbi's are newers, so
- 2:10Speaker 1: their alumni like, hey, we're still coming up right now,
- 2:13Speaker 1: but we got next. Though. Although there are similarities, there
- 2:16Speaker 1: are also differences. The big difference. HBCUs are about legacy.
- 2:20Speaker 1: You walk onto an HBCU campus and it feels like
- 2:23Speaker 1: a Black family reunion where everybody's a tt or un period.
- 2:27Speaker 1: There's history in the air. Pbis they're about right now.
- 2:32Speaker 1: They're like, what do you need? You need resources, you
- 2:35Speaker 1: need scholarships, you need snacks. We got you, so we
- 2:38Speaker 1: need both. Why Because racism doesn't take a day off.
- 2:42Speaker 1: HBCUs are there to remind us where we've been, and
- 2:45Speaker 1: pbis are there to make sure no one gets left behind.
- 2:48Speaker 1: It's like a relay race. HBCU started it and pbis
- 2:51Speaker 1: grabbed the baton stick. That what you say when somebody
- 2:54Speaker 1: passing you the baton. I ran track a little bit
- 2:56Speaker 1: in high school. It wasn't very good, but I know
- 2:58Speaker 1: the jargon. You rep and fam you Winston, Salem, State, Howard,
- 3:03Speaker 1: or some PBI in your city, just know this. These
- 3:06Speaker 1: schools are for us, by us. They FUOBU schools And
- 3:11Speaker 1: I didn't know maybe you didn't either.