Joshua talks about BSU's goals and mission

By Dylan Shumba

For Black History Month, I talked to Joshua Ben-Baba, who is the President of the Black Student Union. 

 In the beginning of the Interview, Joshua had discussed the main reason why he and his family participate in BSU was due to receiving racial slurs during a basketball game at another school.

“So BSU was focused last year in late December, after an incident, at a different high school where members of our basketball team experienced a racial encounter. They were hearing racial slurs, and it was just a really ugly situation, and members of the student body, me and my sister and our two friends decided to take action.” 

 Joshua goes on to discuss how BSU being a safe space for African American students of all races to come together to have a better understanding of African American Culture.

“To me BSU means a safe space for African American students in the school and students of all races to come and have a safe place to experience black culture, educate themselves on what constitutes African American culture today, and how we can continue to get better equity and equality for African American students.”

Josh then concludes the interview with why he believes anyone should join BSU as he believes there are a lot of things that you could learn about African American culture, and that you could teach about your culture.

“You may not be African American, but there are a lot of things that you could learn about African American culture, and that you could teach me as an African person, an African American person, about their culture as well. We do have a lot of open-ended discussions that do help to facilitate different ideas and opinions that we all walk away from feeling more educated and just gaining a profound sense of who we are as a community at Judge.”