Clarissa Williams

School: Claflin University
Department: Foreign Languages
Location:Orangeburg, SC
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I'm not going to lie here as I can be brutally honest. At first, Dr. Williams seemed nice and helpful enough. I took her Business Spanish course and despite my initial enthusiasm, the course was definitely less than I expected. She isn't the most organized and we didn't even seem to have a legit BUSINESS SPANISH textbook; she just loaded up PDFs (which isn't the worst thing but I would have liked to have seen us go thoroughly and comprehensively through multiple chapters from a certified business Spanish textbook). The class is not very hard if you are a hard worker, relatively intelligent, and like Spanish. I took AP in high school and loved the language. Just expect a lot of busy work and in-class assignments that become homework. Know the material, be ready to participate, and expect frequent quizzes and group projects. Second, however, the atmosphere and environment of her class seemed less than ideal; whether it was due to her, the particular students that were in my class, I am not entirely sure but I believe it was some combination of both. ~~Perhaps Dr. Williams has been negatively affected by some bad experiences with previous students and is thus wary to naively trust some students or accept their excuses for absences and missing assignments, but those bad experiences do NOT explain her sometimes detached, and dismissive attitude with students who are actually striving to do well. I think you will catch her in her best mood if you personally meet with her during office hours without outside interference but I honestly didn't appreciate one occasion during which she annoyingly and ignorantly commented and made it seem like I was trying to do her teaching job during one of my class presentations. As a teacher, she might be doing an adequate job but as a person, I would NEVER trust her.~~ Going to an HBCU school like Howard University is already a challenge in some ways, if you know anything about African-Americans. Do NOT take this as a rant. I am a BW (African-American) myself but I honestly despise how stupid, short-sighted, unnecessarily rude/hostile, slave-minded, envious-acting, divided, ignorant, and hateful many and most African Americans (and so-called "Blacks") in general act. Everybody knows it but nobody wants to acknowledge it, acting like it's a big secret. Non-blacks probably notice it but blacks never act so terrible to them like they do to EACH OTHER. That's why some people don't believe it happens. Consequently, those blacks who don't conform to an ignorant norm of behavior, attempt to live with some semblance of morals (anti-ethical to AA culture) and/or who have unique, quirky personalities are often targeted by hateful others who are looking to "bring someone down" because they are angry with their own lives. NOW, transfer this ignorance to a classroom setting and all that results is a retarded show of clownish, juvenile, animalistic and predatory ANTICS from a bunch of fools driven by their emotions. I mention this because I did not think that the professor was above these same antics but if she noticed it in the classroom (the hostile behavior of fellow students either towards me or someone else), she certainly didn't seem to adopt a professional reaction to it and I suspected that she wasn't so different. As an AA attending an HBCU, you really want to hope that your attempt at a community will flourish and encourage unity, intelligence, and maturity but I've given up the hope that they will lose the crabs-in-the-barrel mentality. The same goes for my expectations of this sad little world in general (but that's a different story...). The so-called "black community" is more often than not TOXIC and quick to pick at any form of self-expression that makes them ignorantly think someone is "acting white." Even as blacks are branching out now into many fields and slowly coming out of their long-held slave-mentalities, many are still too stupid to stop secretly acting this way and realize that this mentality does NOT produce prosperity. I wasn't surprised though because I usually don't expect to find many exceptions among BFs, regardless of their age. Ironically, at an HBCU, most of my kindest, most helpful, and ENCOURAGING professors were non-black (including a Jewish woman) and seemed to have high expectations for me rather than acting like some distant, cold, bitter, resentful teen who seemed to doubt/question my potential and were a FAR CRY from actual mentors, even while supporting the same hostile and wicked individual students who actively tried (emphasis on "tried") to humiliate and ostracize me. IRONIC. The joke's on their pathetic charade of a "community" in the long-run. This is often the case as it pertains to many of the staff and students at Howard, and I am not the only student who has encountered this. Unfortunate.

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