Black Student Union is a club on campus that has recently been picked back up after lacking leaders for some time. The club had their first meeting on the 26th with great attendance.

“I think it was nineteen people,” Club President Duane “Peanut” Hawkins said. “And I think nineteen for our first club meeting is really good because a lot of clubs as you see only bring 6 or 7, and this is nineteen dedicated people that I know I will see week by week, and hopefully they will bring their friends so I think that was a good experience. It was definitely a little scary, because I didn’t know what I was going to say at first, I didn’t know how to address it to principles, how to address it to teachers that I would need for help, and it was just a lot on my mind. I was just everywhere. My mind was everywhere.”

Vice President Mitan Yeo is extremely passionate about the club and its background and looks forward to future meetings. 

“Actually I think that’s the best part knowing that we just didn’t let it completely die out, and you know we took the first step, we had the initiative to get it started up again,” Yeo said. “My sister and my cousin were originally the ones who started it so it actually means something to my family, so it feels good to bring it back.” 

“Yeah I was really disappointed to see the last Black Student Union kind of fail and half the people graduate and nobody pick the ball up again, so I’m really glad to see that for our community, I think it’s good and I think it’s something that we need on campus,” Club member Amaya Richardson said. “We were in competition with a bunch of other clubs so I ‘m proud of the turn out that we had and I think it will be even better next time.”

BSU’s goal is to bring everyone together regardless of their race and to give people a safe and comfortable place to address things that they’ve experienced. 

“I think I want to get out that all people are welcome,” Hawkins said. “People may look at it as just ‘Black’ Student Union but at the meeting today there was not only black kids there was a lot of other races and I think that that’s a good thing to see because I don’t want people to look at the name and then be like ‘Oh I can’t come,’ right? I want people to feel accepted because we didn’t make the club to only bring black people together, we made the club to bring everyone together so that everybody has a voice at Roseville High School, so everybody feels like they can have a safe space to talk about things that bother them that they usually just wouldn’t talk about, that they would hold back and would just keep on their mind.”

“Meetings every Wednesday, be there or be square,” Yeo said.