Would anyone white or black, be chastised for a celebration dance? If so this is not the latest example of institutional racism. Some people are just looking for something to he offended about.
DSD there is a time and place to celebrate. Usually the graduation walk was serious and one did not “act out” or “carry on” or am I just getting old?
When everyone does a jig, it just turns a two-hour ceremony into a three hour circus replete with clown suits.
Congratulations! You made it! Best wishes to you, miss/young man! (Now please move along so I may honor your peers.)
It is called CLASS, MATURITY, CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR....
Supposedly acquired during the student’s four or more years at the college.
“Celebration dances” are undignified. The students were probably told in advance NOT to do them. That’s why the faculty member is moving them along.
In my experience, it is ONLY the members of the [ahem] “other” race that do this. That explains that this had nothing to do with discrimination and everything to do with decorum.
I’ve seen this it the high school level, disgustingly so. My niece attended a high school which had students bused in. This is for a high school diploma, mind you, but whenever a students name was called out (those of the other race), not only did the idiot do an end zone dance but his 25 mamas and aunts stood on their chairs, wiggling their fat asses, doing the same. You’d have thought their hoodlum had won the Nobel Prize. Disgusting.