On October 10, 1970 I attended the Wake/VT football game at Groves along with an announced crowd (according to Wikipedia) of 18,500. At halftime the VT marching band performed a rousing rendition of "Dixie", as I recall much to the delight of the mostly Wake fans in attendance. Every member of that band should be identified, and if they are in any position (private, public, volunteer) that remotely impacts the life of another individual (or heck, let's thrown in the defenseless animals), they should first apologize, tell how they understand much better in 2019 than 1970 how Dixie and other symbols of the confederacy are insensitive and racist, and explain how over these past 39 years they have grown as a person. If they're willing to do that, then they should be allowed to continue to function as a member of society, assuming they serve a suspension and/or attend diversity and bias training. In addition, if there are records of those in attendance that day (we could start with The Howler for that year and its listing of our own cheerleaders, marching band etc.) and possibly aided by crowd photos and current face recognition technology, we could query those individuals as to their reaction on that day to the playing of Dixie. Sitting in silence, or clearly, cheering or applauding, would subject that individual to the same scrutiny as the VT band members. And for folks like myself, "I don't recall" is not an excuse; in fact it's an assumed admission of guilt.
