Dymond Larrimore, Class of 2023

Though south is a PWI there are a lot of different ethnicities and races at the school. For some students, it’s easier to group with their own race or ethnicity so we have a lot of different groups and organizations for things like that. It’s good but also bad because it seems as if it’s better to just group with people you know rather than the ones you don’t, but at the same time that’s how that “segregation” can come into play. Yes, most of them are organizations and I think they are pretty amazing. We have a Black Student Union organization and I love how they stand up for the minority at south. We had a situation with a couple of our professors dressing up in racial Halloween costumes for a party as they were trying to figure out what should happen. The BSU committee decided to do a march and a lot of people showed up and supported, even students that are of different races. I enjoyed that moment/march because it showed me how we can come together to fight for what is right as a school. The BSU makes me feel represented. The school itself seems to only support students of color through athletics. I wish south would give out fair scholarships to everyone and not just people in a specific field or major. It’s not fair some students have to wait a certain grade year just to fill out a scholarship just for them not to get it. I believe it has a lot to do with race because why are we filling out what race we are for a scholarship that can go to anybody? If you want to feel more appropriate about race you should definitely go to an HBCU where they embrace everything about being black.