Halftime: Presbyterian Game

[DinDC]

The halftime entertainment tonight was a group of black children in a local sports program who put on a football exhibition. Unfortunately, our esteemed stadium management, or whoever it was in charge of picking the music, decided that the best song to play to accompany a bunch of black children entertaining a pretty lily white college football crowd was -- wait for it -- "JUNGLE BOOGIE". You can't make this stuff up.

 

[DirkTheDeac]

That was funny in a white supremacist sort of way. Our marketing group... well, what can you say.

 

[VaDeac]

WtF

 

[IrishSlim]

In the marketers' defense, they're stupid. Like, really, really stupid. Stupid enough to work for a walking clown-car named Ron Wellman. So ... you know. STUPID. All caps.

 

[dot com]

I never would have equated the playing of that song as being racist.

There were non-black kids on those teams anyway.

I think you're stretching.

 

[BabyDeac75]

FWIW, the same observation was made in our group.

At the very least, it was quite an ill-considered selection ... unfortunately that seemed consistent with the rest of the night.

 

[94Deac]

Are you sure they didn't request the music?

Kool & The Gang were/are black after all.

 

[Say Hey Deac]

Woah, this seems eerily close to Strattocater's Slowpoke Rodriguez controversy!

 

[Quepo]

Would have preferred to watch 10 more minutes of that than see our band

 

[RicoSuave]

I never would have equated the playing of that song as being racist.

There were non-black kids on those teams anyway.

I think you're stretching.

<townie talk> We need to focus on whats really racist in our society: caucasian Miley Cyrus shaking her butt in a manner that only African-American women have a right to do. </townie talk>

 

[DinDC]

Are you sure they didn't request the music?

Kool & The Gang were/are black after all.

Not likely that young kids today would request a song recorded in 1973, but some old white dude would.

 

[DinDC]

I never would have equated the playing of that song as being racist.

There were non-black kids on those teams anyway.

I think you're stretching.

All of the kids at my end of the field were black, as were all of the kids I saw outside the stadium before the game. All of the adults that I saw with them were black.

 

[94Deac]

Not likely that young kids today would request a song recorded in 1973, but some old white dude would.

Or some old dude- black or white- in charge of the program. I have no idea, I'm just asking if we know who requested the music before jumping to conclusions.

 

[HeavyPetter]

Would have preferred to watch 10 more minutes of that than see our band

Fuck that shit. Bring on the frisbee dogs.

 

[PhilliesDeacs]

Zooperstars?