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Trumping While Black

[Historically Black College Marching Band Takes Heat for Playing Trump Inauguration by Jerome Hudson | Breitbart] "The marching band of Talladega College, Alabama’s oldest private historically black college, is set to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, causing outrage and backlash from some of the school’s former students.

“We were a bit horrified to hear of the invitation,” Talladega alumni Shirley Ferrill told the Associated Press. “I don’t want my alma mater to give the appearance of supporting him. Ignore, decline or whatever, but please don’t send our band out in our name to do that.”

The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced the news Friday that some 40 groups, including high school bands and military organizations, were accepted to perform in the inaugural parade.

Talladega College Marching Tornadoes’ decision to perform at the prestigious event quickly consumed the college’s social media sites.

“The news that Talladega College has forgotten its steady and proud 150 years of history, by making the decision to not stand in solidarity with other clear-eyed and courageous people, academic institutions, and organizations, protesting the inauguration of one of the most antagonistic, hatred-spewing, unrepentant racists, has simply and unequivocally broken my heart today,” wrote Nikky Finney, a 1979 graduate of Talladega, who’s now chair of creative writing and southern studies at the University of South Carolina.

“This should have been a teachable moment for the President of Talladega College instead it has become a moment of divisiveness and shame,” Finney wrote..." Full text: Historically Black College Marching Band Takes Heat for Playing Trump Inauguration Eccl 10:2, Jn 10:10