Black students are getting tired of it, i.e., racial slurs in hallways and the hollering of racial slurs out of the windows. Young Blacks think they do not have to prove themselves, but they do. You have to try to be twice as good as whites to get the same results. White students have better attitudes toward Blacks if they have taken Afro-American Studies courses. In class the professors are friendly and tell students that they can come back after class, but when students show up for assistance, the attitude changes.
Black students have to prove that they are here to study.
We have to become tactful and diplomatic in our classroom interactions with faculty. I was doing a research paper for a 400 level class. What I had to develop was a sense of being able to walk into a class asserting the fact that I am here to learn. It is a challenge to be in a class when you are the only black student in the class. In the units with large minority enrollments, usually there are some support activities, but little is available for black students enrolled in some of the majors with limited black enrollments.