Posted on 03/04/2010 12:19:52 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks
It sounds like a cheesy Hollywood movie:
White college girls from Arkansas go to a national step dancing competition -- a dance form that is a hallmark of black fraternities and sororities -- and, gee whiz, win the whole darned thing! Boy, are the black sorority sisters steamed!
But wait!
In the final reel, five days after the results set off a national ruckus, show organizers say they discovered a "scoring discrepancy." They say the second-place sorority from Indiana University, the pink-and-green Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation's oldest black sorority, is also a winner! Each team gets $100,000 in scholarships!
The only problem with this eye-rolling scenario is that . . . it actually happened. And the Feb. 20 national finals of the Sprite Step Off competition in Atlanta, in which the all-white Zeta Tau Alpha team from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville won what sponsors billed as "the largest Greek stepping competition ever," is scheduled to be broadcast at 3 p.m. Sunday on MTV2.
"I was nervous it'd be a train wreck and we'd go too fast," Alexandra Kosmitis, a junior accounting major and a member of the Zeta team, said of its nine-minute, stomp-and-shout "Matrix"-themed routine. "But halfway through, it became more about having fun."
When the team finished -- to wild applause -- emcee Ryan Cameron, a local radio personality, rushed onstage: "Whoa! Wow!" Then he playfully admonished the sold-out crowd of 4,600 fans, nearly all of them black, not to be so surprised that the evening's only white contestants were that good.
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Not only that but they, the judges, and the audience were cheering them on until they won.
Bigotry doesn’t even describe it. Hatred for the pursuit of excellence is more like it.
Cue Mel Brooks’ Producers...
To put it another way, they are going after The Matrix look.
Doversity is fun...
Can I enter the USMC Silent Drill Team in next years compitition?
You’re killing me...
If I wasn't already boycotting Obamanoid Pepsi, I'd boycott Coke.
Is RC Cola still in business?
Clint JR goes to college in Alabama, you betcha RC Cola is the norm Down there. Here in our nation’s capital I don’t think you could find it even at a specialty store.
It is in Texas.
Mark for later read.
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