Every since the untimely death of Robert Champion, a drum major at FAMU, there has been a lot of media attention drawn towards hazing and HBCU band programs.
I hate to hear about death period, doesn't matter justly or unjustly, or anything in between. it's sad that your last breath was taken only to be accepted or to be apart of an organization.
I am a member of organizations that required membership intake processes but they are no different from the intake processes that we see in life. Just think about it, if you haven't then you know some who has gone through it..maybe your own children. "If you want to be my friend, you got to..." "If you want to hang with us, you go got to..." Even in our everyday jobs, we are forced to do things that we don't want to do or feel comfortable doing only to keep that job in order to get a paycheck.
Now some of you may argue that it is different but is it really? How many of us suffer from stress, sickness, illnesses due to life itself? Working dead end jobs to make ends meet? Being unhappy on the job only because you have to in order provide for you and/or a family? Even that person that is in that abusive relationship is being hazed in some shape, form, or fashion. We may not call all of these incidents hazing but they all have the same concept.
What are your thoughts?
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