And now it’s time for my perspective a year ago HBO is a real sports with Bryant Gumbel did a piece on hazing among black bands I talked about it on Twitter and Facebook and a lot of students at HBCUs got to really upset with me especially those at Southern
University who were upset because their school was featured a year later drum majorette florida A&M university is dead suspected of hazing so what does it actually say when we sit here and we’re sending black kids to school to get an education and parents are bringing them home in coffins I don’t care anybody
Says whether you in the fraternity sorority or the band hazing is absolutely ridiculous look I’m a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha and when I pledged at Texas am I made it perfectly clear that nobody was going to hit me because of some letters that makes no
Sense but you know what this happens in high schools when I was at Jack Yates high school in Houston I was in the band my freshman year and they tried the hazing stuff there as well how in the world can we sit here talk about education and yet for some reason folks
Are getting beaten it’s time for parents and tell their children you don’t let anybody abuse you and touch you even if it’s a band fraternity or sorority we don’t know all these circumstances around the death of or 2 a.m. but I can tell you this if it’s hazing kick
Everyone involved out of school that’s my perspective what’s yours
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