White team’s ‘stepping’ win sparks uproar

AP/Boston Herald ^ | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | AP

[Sir Clancelot]

I thought Obama ushered in a “post-racial” America?

[Touch Not the Cat]

Zeta Tau Alpha: Epsilon 1st Place Winners of Sprite Step-Off Challenge 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=016C4sUj5_8

[albie]

Just give it to the blacks.~sarc They’ll end up burning down the town if you don’t.~sarc off

[Psycho_Bunny]

Pure racism.....imagine if the shoe were on the other foot.

Oh wait, you can't because no one would care.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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I wouldn’t walk across the street to see that.

[qwertypie]

There is no hope when it comes to black attitudes. What’s with the grudge that won’t moderate. Isn’t there ever gonna be a time when they say “the past has passed” or “let’s laugh about things?” Where are the adults?

[skeeter]

a form of cultural theft.

Ooh, I'm gonna try this one out the next time I hear some breathless media report about a racial milestone being crossed - 'the first black/brown/female' etc...

[JDoutrider]

The “Whites Need Not Apply” sign was obviously not up...

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why are some blacks upset about this? If a cultural touchstone of theirs becomes more popular, isn’t this celebrating diversity?

I remember there was some controversy about a black college with white football players. I think it was Grambling, historically black, where a white quarterback created waves just by being a white quarterback for an historically black college team. And the controversy was stirred by blacks, not by whites.

Of course, if a black quarterback plays for Ole Miss or some other college that used to be segregated, that’s ok, that’s just “progress” and all that.

[Huskrrrr]

To insure fairness in the future perhaps we should segregate whites to another college. Oh, right we tried that.

[Centurion2000]

debating whether whites should have been let in and whether judges wowed by the unlikely competitors inflated their scores.

Yeah, Heaven forbid blacks get upstaged or actually have to compete on purely equal footing. Racist bastards.

[livius]

Wow! They were incredible. And the audience (mostly black) seemed to love them, so I don’t see what the problem is.

[junta]

I thought race does not exist? Would the libs get their stories straight?

[JimRed]

A YouTube video of their performance, inspired by the movie “The Matrix,” drew hundreds of comments, debating whether whites should have been let in and whether judges wowed by the unlikely competitors inflated their scores.

Who knew what color they were before they showed up? Who were the judges? If had been a ballet competition, won by blacks for superior athletic performance of dance, would there even be any "debating" about having allowed them in?

Racism is alive and well- it's just not where it used to be!

[Krankor]

Why not just have two awards for every contest held in the country. One award for the actual winner, and one award for the best minority.

[subterfuge]

Somebody just got SERVED! Boo-ya!!

[ClearCase_guy]

Coca-Cola announced “scoring discrepancies” and said the runner-up from Indiana University, whose members are black, would share first place

"As judges of this competition, we want to say how sorry we are that some of the contestants were born black. We understand that the playing field is not level for them, and that they lack the basic skills with which to participate in a "stepping" contest. Therefore, strictly out of pity, we have decided to award them first place."

[dfwgator]