Posted on 09/30/2025 11:16:54 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
The president of Florida A&M University on Saturday said the historically Black college ("HBCU") was taking “immediate steps to ensure accountability” after its band announcer commented on the weight of Alabama State University’s Honey Beez dancers.
During half-time of the game between the two schools, Florida A&M band announcer Joe Bullard called the dance team that performs with Alabama State’s Mighty Marching Hornets as “the new face of Ozempic,” HBCU Gameday reported.
Dr. Quinton Ross, the president of Alabama State University, called the remark “distasteful” and “short-sighted.”
“To have their artistry disrespected after such a performance is absolutely unacceptable,” Ross wrote.
“Honey Beez, please know that you are celebrated, valued, and admired for the joy that you bring to the Hornet Nation, and also for the bold and fearless way you represent the very best of ASU,” Ross wrote.
FAMU president Marva B. Johnson apologized for the remark in a statement.
“The Honey Beez represent discipline, school pride and their performance tradition is respected across the nation,” Johnson wrote.
“Such comments are unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” she said of the band announcer’s remark.
Fat is skinny
Some dudes like a sturdy lass ... more cushion for the pushin’, they say.
“I’ve got fudge!”
I think I saw them in a fist fight at a Taco Bell.......or was it McDonalds......
Watching the video, those girls are working hard .
He talked about them behind their back, he would have told it to their faces but his car only had a half a tank of gas.
>> I’m old enough to remember society pretty much as a whole shaming smokers... How is this different, this lifestyle choice?
EXCELLENT point!
There is plenty of hatred of Florida A&M by the SWAC since the defection from the MEAC. And this is just a continuation of The Dozens taunting in the black community, made famous by a Pepsi commercial in 2008 featuring two NHL goaltenders playing the black community taunting game. It ends when one goaltender taunts in Cantonese, to bring the theme the reaction time of one is a half second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nit2pfTKyM
But were they true?
I wonder if they do Haka dance...
It was impressively flexible.
So this guy gets in trouble for pointing out an obvious, truthful observation? Normal people have no interest in seeing blubber glorified. Sorry, not sorry.
>> Looks like a tribal fertility dance on National Geographic.
🤣😂🤣
PLEASE no NatGeog “nekkid native” pix though!
Not my idea of dancing. Thatvgyrating would be very unattractive even if done by thin girls.
But I agree that he should have kept his thoughts to himself.
Hungry Hippos on Speed!
Agree about the Nike picture. Hideous. Mom never talked to them about sitting like a lady, apparently.
A lot of weight talk today. Must be a thing.
,Agree
I knew the announcer many years ago when we were teens in Orlando. He is a good guy, a family man who carved out a successful career in Tallahassee as a local radio personality, station manager, and announcer for FAMU.
They may well be nice individuals. But they are sent out there to perform an art presentation of a physical nature not known for being performed by morbidly obese females.
The same could be said of morbidly obese men performing some kind of dance, ie the famous Chippendales skit from SNL, and a well done skit it was:
It was great satire, but nobody wants to see that in real life, ever.
Yes it was.
For example, the famous conservative black women Diamond and Silk...I never found them physically attractive, but if I had the opportunity to spend time with them and carry on a conversation, I would have enthusiastically done that, because it wasn't what their body shape or skin color is (or was in the case of Diamond, who passed away in 2023) but because of what was attractive was in their minds.
But I am not in the least bit interested in seeing them in those outfits, moving around as they do in the video.
I am sure there are some guys out there who might find that attractive, but I don't.
I have long been appreciative of people who wear appropriate garb for their physique, and I don't think that is appropriate garb for those physiques.
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