Black Pleasure, Black Joy

In the introduction Cornel west said that joy is a collective experience, or at least provides the possibilities of one. So I compared the introduction to an article that I found on Ebony Magazine website called "Howard or Harvard?" In this article they talk about would people that went to HBCU's, had a chance to re-do their choice of colleges would they. They spoke about the good experiences during college and the great careers after college. The article also talks about how these black college is powerful, but after people go to them; they discovered isolation and the perception that their academic opportunities are unearned, leaving them even more insecure about race. It was said that people from ivy school would make more money than a person from an HBC. But when making your choice you should pick which ever will open the door for you and how wide do you want the door to open. I picked this article to go with the introduction because it had issues of collective struggles and that touched base with the article. The choice of college could affect how well you do in life; as when explaining pleasure Cornel West says you take it with you, and it's a highly individuated unit; and explains joy as being the possibility of bringing people together. So I was thinking if you do attend a HBC it would be kind of hard to bring people together because of the lack of diversity.