Havoc on the Yard

I don’t know about y’all, but I am getting sick and tired of going outside and seeing blue and red lights flashing. It seems as if each day there is something new going on and it’s honestly starting to bother me.
I come from a little city 45 minutes from the city of Atlanta where nothing happens and when it does, it is usually taken care of quickly. I am used to being able to leave the house, no matter what time, and walking down the street just because I was too bored to stay in the house. I would walk around for hours, pick up some friends along the way and just chill letting the time go by. However, after the first couple weeks here, I have quickly learned that those times were over.
Walking around campus with friends, listening to the band play on the practice field, and simply hiking back to my dorms from the library seem to go out the window lately. Chilling, minding my own business in the front of school and I see two cop cars speed by only to return minutes later after the ringing of gunshots rupture through the sky.
Can I just say this, I thought we were in college? I mean, yeah I understand we have some people who don’t deserve to be here and we have people from neighboring areas who just walk on campus, but the fact that each case involved an actual student saddens me.
Violence in school happens, that’s totally clear and understandable, but when it’s to the point where the first month of school there was a stack of cases of fights on an official’s desk, it is unheard of.
We applied to go to school for school, right? We didn’t come to school just to settle down and become the new “plug” on campus or even fight over girls from Totty, right? This isn’t the set of Fast 8. Or is it? No, I am pretty sure this is THE Southern University and A&M College where we are taught to lead by example and help lift the black community out of the gutters we’ve been placed in.
With all this bad publicity going on, it is reaching the news station across the city and it is truly casting a giant cloud over the good publicity we have been working hard to receive. We already have to compete to get a job in town against LSU, so why make it harder on ourselves?
It is getting to the point to where the alumni who are supposed to be supporting us, have now started looking down on us even harder. We complain about how we can’t get this and that, but how are we supposed to if we can’t talk our friends out of doing stupid things that will jeopardize their future. I mean that’s what real friends do, right? Support each other.
All I am trying to say is that the crime that has been happening on campus isn’t going to do anything but bring us all down in the long run. It’s going to create a back lash that will then affect our future, as well as the future generations who attend our wonderful HBCU. And shoot, I know I am not the only one who doesn’t want to spend seven plus thousand dollars a semester for nothing.
Y’all stay woke and don’t let this outshine our progress into becoming strong black brothers and sisters of tomorrow.