Queen Bey: The queen of finessing

Did Beyonce finesse Southern, one of the most well-known HBCUs with one of the most well-known marching bands in the country? Yes. She definitely did.
Everyone knows that a huge part of HBCU culture is the band and the dancers. And when it comes to college marching bands and dancers, the Southern University Human Jukebox and the Fabulous Dancing Dolls are unmatched. They have performed with, and for some of the biggest events and biggest celebrities in the world. But did Beyonce bother to get any of them to perform with her for Coachella? Nope. Not one Juke. Not one doll.
Beyonce even did the exact same catch-on that the Dancing Dolls did on their viral video dancing to “Can You Stand the Rain,” by New Edition in the rain years ago. Did she give us credit for the catch-on or even mention the dolls as all for inspiration for the Coachella performance? Nope. Of course not, she’s the Queen Bey. She’s too famous for that.
Then, after Coachella, she decided to give $100,000 in scholarships to four HBCUs, so $25,000 to each school, during the 2018-2019 academic school year as part of her BeyGood initiative. It’s called the “Homecoming Scholars Award Program.” Great, right? Yeah, except for the fact that Southern didn’t make her list. Xavier University of Louisiana, Wilberforce University, Tuskegee University, and Bethune Cookman University; that was her list.
Funny thing is, Xavier doesn’t even have a football team, so do they even have a real homecoming? Or a band? Or dancers? Who knows? It’s also only about an hour and a half away from Southern. It’s funny how she somehow acknowledged Xavier, but not Southern.
A week later, she partnered with Google to add four more HBCUs to her list. Did Southern make the second list? Of course not but two other schools in the SWAC did.
She’s offering the same scholarships to Texas Southern University, Fisk University, Grambling State University, and Morehouse College. Not only are Grambling and Texas Southern apart of the same conference as Southern, they are two of the schools’ biggest rivals and biggest copycats. Who’s next on her list? Jackson State University?
How can you create an entire HBCU themed show without even mentioning one of the most well known and highly imitated HBCUs in the country?
This whole situation gives me deja vu from when Beyonce did her whole video for “Formation” based on the flooding after Hurricane Katrina and used Big Freedia in her song, but wasn’t even going to go to New Orleans on her tour. She didn’t add the city to her list until people complained and “cancelled” her on Twitter.