Freddogg Off The Chain

I covered a Parents Day football game last Saturday afternoon taking lots of pictures but at halftime the real show broke out as Hampton University and Delaware State threw down with a battle of the marching bands.
These traditionally black college bands have a well earned reputation for taking halftime shows to an entire different level of entertainment including mascot races. I stood up and snapped pictures of musicians and dancing girls flying through the air and rolling on the turf. It was so cool and so energizing but the photos were out of the realm of what usually appears in the newspaper.
It is a fact that readers can’t handle any truths which are self evident unless it’s a line of white tuba players doing a choreographed hop.
Perhaps it’s not fair to make a cultural linkage but I taught in public school where the talk was always of diversity but when real diversity was encouraged schools couldn’t handle it and I’m not just talking white and black there is diversity of all kinds including diversity of political and religious position. What schools really can’t handle is confusion at the edges of the norm that produces noise. Noise is the enemy of the status quo but have you ever seen and exuberant quiet and motionless person?
I have and they usually say things like “This is really enjoyable I’m really having a good time.”
Don’t forget to “Dance To The Music!”