Letter of Awareness

Mr. Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500


Dear President Obama:


My name is Faidat Yetunde Amolegbe, a first generation Nigerian female who attends Howard University. Both of my parents were born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. They moved to America in 1979. Fortunately, my parents both have their Green cards and are citizens. However, I wish i could say the same thing for the rest of my family and friends in Nigeria. Lately a lot of my family members have been deported back to Nigeria and also a lot of them cannot even get here because they were denied a visa for no declared reason. 


In a recent edition of the Washington Post there is an article about the increasing deportation rate and the extreme measures that are being taken to make sure the illegal immigrants are out. I saw that even businesses that hire undocumented workers are getting audited. The deportation rate has risen 25% since 2007 and I know it will continue to increase. You say the reason all of this is “to make our national laws actually work”. I am a law abiding citizen, so I totally understand your reasoning. However, a lot of people that I know that has been deported were just here to make a better life for themselves. Nigeria does not have many opportunities for people to succeed and be wealthy. A lot of people there are miserable and they are just looking for a way out. When you send them back to Nigeria, a lot of them have nothing to go back to. 


They say America is the land of the free and home of the brave. I wish we could be all free, not just Americans. I am not saying that deportation should totally stop. I am just saying that maybe it should be more lenient, especially with people who are not making trouble, and just trying to survive. Thank you for taking time to read my letter, I really appreciate it. I hope to hear from you soon.


Sincerely,






Faidat Amolegbe

English 002

I have always LOVED Math and Science. I have always HATED English. That has always been, and I do not think it will ever change. In High School, I learned nothing in my English classes because I always had the mindset like "I hate this class", so I never bothered to learn anything. However, I did manage to get an A's all through high school in my English classes, but that was because I did all my homework and a lot of extra credit. When I got to college, I knew it was not going to be as easy for me to get an A as it was in High School so I knew I had to straighten up and really learn. Coming in to Howard University, my writing was horrible. I always had good thoughts and ideas, but they could never transfer to my writings. I had a huge problem with comprehension, I would have to read something over 5 times to actually understand the material. In this English 002 class, I really tried hard to improve my reading and writing skills because I really want to know how to write well-written papers. So far, I think I have improved a lot from where I started. However, I still feel that I have a long way to go. Wish me luck!!

Cultural Fusion

      The legendary, Howard University homecoming was last week. Before I came to Howard, that was all that i heard about. "Howard homecoming this...Howard homecoming that". Howard is an HBCU (historically black college university) and everything about Howard is revolved around African Americans: its classes, its meaning, its people. So i figured that its homecoming would be too. I was completely wrong.
       Yard Fest is an extravagant festival where musicians perform and there is food EVERYWHERE. My father as well as my sister attended Howard. They attend Howard's homecoming faithfully and they were so surprised this year by the performances at yard fest. They said to me that they weren't used to having so much diversity. All of the performances were geared toward the African American culture, however, their were so many different cultures. They played Caribbean music, African music, Rap, and even jazz. They had artist whose audience was my sisters generation, then they had artist whose audience was my fathers generation. My father and sister said it was by far the BEST homecoming at Howard they have ever been to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHsC-zIn4ZI <<A short clip of YardFest