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Cal in Color
I’ve often had STEM friends not understand why they have to pay our exorbitant tuition even for classes not clearly related to their major.
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I’ve often had STEM friends not understand why they have to pay our exorbitant tuition even for classes not clearly related to their major.
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Just because UC Berkeley isn’t majority white doesn’t mean that it truly includes its Black undergraduates — and labelling our campus as POC-majority further erases Black students.
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I wanted to write “Cal in Color” to create real dialogue on what it actually means to be a Black woman at Berkeley, and doing so requires the invocation of uncomfortable radical topics.
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Being an ally means showing up when it counts. It means uplifting Black voices rather than trying to drown them out for the sake of appearing “woke.”
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Every time someone stopped me on campus to thank me for voicing issues facing first-generation students, I felt like I was doing something right.
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I often wished I knew how to help my family and those in my community so that law enforcement wouldn’t take advantage of them.
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Like I always said and still say to this day to myself and those around me, “You got to speak it into existence!”
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When the time came to start applying, I poured out my heart in essays and prayed I would get into UC Berkeley, as it had always been my dream school.
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My job kept me on a productive routine and provided little time to think or worry about external issues, but COVID-19 has thrown my life into disarray.
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It was inspiring to know that these young adults who looked like me and came from Oakland had managed to accomplish so much.
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