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Another Classic has gone down for the history books.
For 74 years, Alabama State University (Montgomery, AL) and
Alabama A&M University (Huntsville, AL) football teams and bands have battled it
out for bragging rights. The game- played in Birmingham, Alabama is usually the
last weekend in October and arguably the best Historically Black
College/University (HBCU) football classic in the country.
The Magic City Classic has always been a part of my life. Growing
up, I loved and looked forward to The Classic but as an adult, I’m over it. I’m
over the traffic, crowds and inflated prices to do the same thing I could’ve
done the previous weekend for a quarter of the price to see the same people
from the year before. I’m too old for this ish. But my sister-in-law brought something to my attention- this type of
event isn’t regular for other folks.
She helped me see The Magic City Classic with
fresh eyes. She was so excited to see a collective of African Americans celebrating
our heritage; coming together as a family around our shared experiences. She
was ecstatic for her children to see Birmingham’s African American mayor,
judges, doctors, nationally-known entertainers, HBCU students and alumni in The Magic City Classic Parade.
She was so full of pride as she explained to her sons and
daughter that they could be an engineer or policewoman like the ones we saw around us as we sat on the sidewalk across from City Hall and next to the Greyhound
bus station where Rep. John Lewis and other Freedom Riders were bombed for exercising their rightsto ride. It was a beautiful thing.
I caught her excitement and felt bad for taking it for granted. . .until we got stuck in traffic again.
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