Yes, it’s happening again. Every few months someone makes a “controversial” statement about an HBCU or PWI that divides #BlackTwitter for hours or days on end. This time around, the situation was a little more complex. In January @sleepymateo tweeted a picture of him and his friends at their PWI. On Saturday, the picture came across @ThePoshLife_‘s timeline, which then prompted her to start a thread on how black students at PWIs “appropriate HBCU culture.”

The tweet that prompted the thread:

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The beginning of the thread in question:

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Some people were fed-up from the jump.

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Others simply want peace.

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Many didn’t understand the logic behind the thread.

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And a handful defended the thread (kind of).

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Truthfully, nobody really knew what was going on. After @ThePoshLife_‘s mentions started blowing up, she wrote a blog on Tumblr titled, Dear “My PWI has a lot of black kids so I basically go to an HBCU” Twitter, explaining her reasoning. Tumblr might just be the playground for the next wave of the divide.

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What do you think? Do we need to put this debate to bed once and for all?


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