Howard, Morehouse Revive Football Feud

In his Atlantic magazine blog, Ta-Nehisi Coates uses his sardonic wit to warn that the bourgie black folk will likely square off during the Morehouse and Howard game today. Suggested Reading The Truth Behind This Viral Meme King Might Surprise You America’s Birth Rate Is Shifting Toward a Minority Majority and Now Things Are Starting…

In his Atlantic magazine blog, Ta-Nehisi Coates uses his sardonic wit to warn that the bourgie black folk will likely square off during the Morehouse and Howard game today.

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Trigger Warning: This post involves black people speaking a high yaller dialect of Ebonics. Proceed at your own risk. 

As all bourgie colored people surely know, Morehouse and Howard square-off on the football field this Saturday. The rivalry among HBCU football teams is a particular breed, and the fact that most respectable blacks live but a couple paychecks from the projects can be quickly evidenced by the threats of weave pulling and wig-splitting which inevitably arise in any discussion over the matter.

In the virtual world this means peons, evidently aware of my celebrated status as a perpetual Howard super-senior sometimes decide to direct a bit of trash-talk at yours truly.

Read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ entire blog entry at the Atlantic.

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