IDKMYDE: WSSU and FAMU

Todays episode of IDKMYDE is comparison of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) and Florida A&M University (FAMU), highlighting their history, impact, and academic excellence.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
I will share with you two HBCUs that I hold
near and dear to my heart. One's around, one's a rattler,
and five hundred miles separates the two. I didn't know.
Maybe you didn't. No, I didn't know. No, I didn't know.

(00:22):
Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
didn't know. Okay, buck of your seat belts and let's
take a road trip through black excellence. First stop, Winston Salem,
North Carolina. Winston Salem State University founded in eighteen ninety
two by Simon g Atkins. You know how bold you

(00:42):
got to be the founder university In eighteen ninety two,
that man said segregation. Jim Crow ain't nobody got time
for that, so he started Slater Industrial Academy, which is
now Winston Salem State University. Back then you were learning
brick land and cooking. Today you might be in a
no lab, putting I v's in mannequins, or recording your

(01:03):
podcasts in one of the only Adobe labs on an
HBCU campus. Samon Gak is probably looking down at WSSU
like that single mom be looking at them kids open
them Christmas presents on Christmas morning, and no, let me
talk about the legend who walk through those doors of
Winston Salem State University. You ever heard of Lewis Farrakhan
a WSSU grab. You ever been watching Wilding Out and

(01:26):
seeing Chico Bean? Yeah? Being a ram two. The name
of our band is the Red Sea of Sound. Our
cheerleaders or you may have seen them on the ground
stomp and shake excellence. We talking about Powerhouse of Red
and White, and around two thousand and seven, Shavon Oestrada
pretty much revolutionized the version of stomping shake that we

(01:46):
see today. But that's a whole nother episode. One of
the most notable chants at Winston Salem State University is
chewed up, backup, chewed up backup, chewed up backup, spit.
If you ain't a dam, then you ain't. We try
to keep a PG for the children and the elderly.
They want to sing along. That's good, old ESU. Now

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let's head down I ninety five to Tallahassee, Florida and
visit Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University better known as FAM.
You they got a chant too. It's usually led by
loose kid. He'll say I represent and all the ratleers
say Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, October third, eighteen eighty seven.

(02:32):
What exactly Fam You was found at? October third, eighteen
eighty seven. Now Tallahassee, Florida has seven huge heels, and
the part of Florida they gave fam was the highest heel.
But it was filled with rattlesnakes. So the state of
Florida was like, y'all can have fifteen acres and two mules,
good luck. So what did fam You do? Turned it

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into one of the top HBCUs in the country. They
embraced those rattlesnakes, became the fam You Ratless And if
you meet any rattler, they'll let you know that they're
from the highest of seven hills. That's right, Fam You
sits at the highest points in Tallahassee, Florida. Even Florida
State got to look up at the ratlers and they

(03:15):
hate that Fam You is so iconic it makes you
want to enroll just for homecoming. No cap I experienced
it last year. And don't let the march in one
hundred touch the field. Have you ever seen them before?
The band might do as much work as the football
team on Saturdays, and Fam You has some of the
dopest alumni in the game. Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former

(03:35):
mayor of Atlanta. Fam You grad What about the movie
director Will Packer here Ratler and he even got a
perform in Arts Amphitheater right on campus. So, whether it's
Winston Salem State University with the motto enter to Learn,
depart to serve in the heart of North Carolina or
fam You with the motto excellence, it's carrying down there

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in the Sunshine State. These schools are more than just campuses.
They're launching pads for greatness. And they're two of my favorites.
Okay bye,