So, what does this say about our image at SU now

Last week, the Southern University student body, and community, shared a triumphant victory with the perfectly orchestrated march and rally which awarded us front-page coverage in The Advocate the following day. Shedding for the first time, in a long time, a positive light for doing something other than winning another SWAC Championship.
But, like all good things, it must come to an end. But the end to our triumphant milestone was immediately tarnished by yet another unexpected criminal act during another home football game on Saturday.
If you read The Advocate then you already know that after North Carolina Central embarrassed us in A. W. Mumford Stadium with a 27-20 win, the victorious team returned to their locker to find that someone had broken into Seymour Gymnasium and stolen a majority of the team’s valuables and college championship football rings.
What does this say about us as a university?
One week a man is shot and killed over a parking space.
The following week the student leaders commit an act of exceptional leadership and organize a rally and march to curtail the negative image constantly being inflicted on our university because of senseless crimes, supposedly beyond our control.
One day later, we are featured on the front page of a newspaper that would much rather tuck our more positive moments on 12C and shine focus on our negative setbacks on 1A.
Only to turn around three days later and be featured again on the same periodical’s Metro section front page, but not for another act of outspoken humanism they thought we were never capable of. It was for yet another senseless crime, committed on our soil, against opponents who trusted our security to protect their valuables while they faced off against our team, on our home field.
Who’s to blame for this?
Was security too concentrated on stopping outsiders from getting in that they inadvertently overlooked a threat from within?
Or, is the university just cursed to always be set back two steps anytime it, or its population, attempts to make one giant leap forward?
What are we supposed to do now?
Is there any bouncing back from this?
We’re not in anyway giving up on this university or its image, but how much more can we take?
Will Saturday’s game against Alabama State result in yet another headline that could potentially turn away more Jaguar alums who have become frustrated with the politics that attending a Southern University football game have come to involve?
Where do we go from here people?
When will this cycle ever end?
Maybe its just time we come to the realization that everyone is jealous of us (including that “white” school on the other side of town). And with jealousy comes envy, and when you are envied you are sought out and set up to fail in everything you try to do.
And if that’s the case, let’s all join in and give the outside world a big “up yours”!
You can try to keep us down, but like a Phoenix we’ll rise again, just as strong and just as blue and gold!
There’s one thing that always reigns true about our “black” school…they can never keep us down for long.