I felt so inspired by what my teacher said, said I'd either be dead or be a reefer head

FUN FACT: Martin Luther King Jr Day was not celebrated in New Hampshire until 1999. Prior to that, New Hampshire celebrated "Civil Rights Day". NH is the last state in the union to have a holiday celebrating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a result of going to a large public university, my campus has Diversity Initiatives and Diversity Events and they are sponsored largely by offices with titles like "Affirmative Action and Equity Office", "Center for the Humanities", "The College of Liberal Arts", "Diversity Initiatives Office", "President's Commission on the Status of Women" "President's Commission on the Status of People of Color" "Office of Multicultural Student Affairs", etc. As a result of going to a large public university in NEW HAMPSHIRE, the number of students who fall under the category of NOT-white is supremely low. Conveniently, the UNH community celebrates Martin Luther King Jr in the first week of February, as part of Black History Month.

A major pet peeve of mine is when people complain about how undiverse my campus is. Sorry, but you chose to go here -- I'm fairly certain you knew what you were signing up for when you agreed to attend UNH. Yes, I realize that not everyone has their choice of (undergraduate)programs and colleges, etc. But really, if you wanted a bit more diversity, then the University of New Hampshire is not the place to be.

That said: I attend as many of the Diversity Events that I can. Diversity Events are fun and enriching and overwhelmingly positive experiences. (And, I'm willing to bet, the largest contact most of my classmates might get with People Who Are Not Like Them. I would now like to direct you to Stuff White People Like #7, Diversity, in regards to this paragraph as a whole).

Last year Angela Davis came to campus; this year Nikki Giovanni was our speaker. Apparently this was the 20th Anniversary of the MLK Celebration week. All I can say is that I hope that in the next 20 years people will get to see Jay-Z, Beyonce and Kanye West, our modern-day Black poets and activists.