The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the most diverse school out of all UW systems, so why am I the only black person in my class?
I see people of color when I walk to my class, but we always seem to go our separate ways once I reach my class door. Where are they hiding? Am I taking the wrong classes? I'm not sure what it is, but something needs to be done.
I have just finished my fifth semester and not much has changed. I still haven't had a male black professor. Why are we lacking so much color, but are considered the most diverse? This shows how much the other UW schools are lacking in the color department.
Why don't people of color want to attend these schools? Well, maybe it's because we don't feel welcomed. The UW system says it cares about diversity, but where's the diversity? We need a change.
Eighty percent of my professors have been white; how is this not an issue? I would love to see someone who looks like me teaching a class. I want to feel represented just like everyone else on campus.
Where are the people of color hiding? Why won't let they join me in class?
UWM tries its best to make everyone feel comfortable, but that's just not enough. There are so many students who don't feel accepted on campus.
The students, the staff and even the speakers who come to UWM never match my skin.The world is more than just the color white, but going to UWM you would never know.
We may be the most diverse, but we're still behind in diversity compared to other universities. I want to see color everywhere I go not just when I'm in the union.
I remember being in an English class a few semesters ago and I was the only black person in the class. We ended up discussing what it feels like to be black in America. We all went in a circle discussing what that means and how it would feel. I sat there and listened to everyone's response, but it went in one ear and out the other. Yet, there was one student's response that stood out to me.
She was a young white woman who had never seen a black person before she came to UWM. She had a culture shock, but her story didn't surprise me. A white person can go their entire life without meeting one black person, but a black person can't go a day without seeing at least one white person. My point is, in a world filled with white, I want to see color.
Not just black people, but Asians, Hispanics, everything! America is supposed to be a melting pot, but all I ever see is one thing.
This is not an article dissing white people, but, instead, an article uplifting people of color. We're underrepresented in everything we do and it's not right. This article will rub some people the wrong way, but it needs to be told.
I'm tired of it. I'm tired of it all. How can we call ourselves the most diverse, when we have students who don't feel we're diverse at all?
White people make up 68 percent of the UWMs student population according to http://www.collegeportraits.org/WI/UWM/print.
How is that a city filled with people of color only represent 8 percent of their city's college? The numbers just don't add up, but no one seems to care... But I do!
I care about everyone and everyone needs to be represented. From the students to the staff, we need more diversity.
If we really want to consider ourselves the most diverse UW school, then we need to act like it!
