From Sprite.com
After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got together to do our post-competition review and found a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results. After looking at it and looking at it AGAIN, we determined there isn’t a definitive resolution.
Sprite is all about preserving the honesty and integrity of this competition. Because the scoring discrepancy can’t be resolved and due to the really tight margin between the first and second place sorors, we feel that the only right thing to do is to name both Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter & Zeta Tau Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, co-first place winners of the Sprite Step Off.
With these revised results, we’re gonna increase Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter’s scholarship prize to $100K, consistent with what Zeta Tau Alpha also got for their first prize winnings.
JUST CURIOUS: Should White Sorority Have Won Sprite Step-Off?
Stepping, which is deeply rooted in the tradition of historically Black Fraternities, has moved into the mainstream. At the Sprite Step Off, a traditionally white sorority with all white members, Zeta Tau Alpha won the $100,000 prize. Bossip was in the audience and they agreed that Zeta Tau Alpha “brought it.”
This can be considered of another example of how Black culture becomes mainstream and becomes appropriated by Caucasian people and becomes a greater part of American culture as a whole.
Judge for yourself, here is Zeta Tau Alpha, stepping along with videos of performances from the AKAs, Deltas and Alphas.
Delta Sigma Theta
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha
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at 8:03 pm
This is a horrible article blog foreal.
at 8:01 pm
This is a good article blog foreal.
at 4:16 pm
This link in the middle of the story really pisses me off.
“JUST CURIOUS: Should White Sorority Have Won Sprite Step-Off?”
Why shouldn’t they have won if they were the best? This site hollers racism at things as little as the way the main character spoke in Princess and the Frog, but then go and do reverse racist s**t like asking if a white sorority should have won? If a black guy won a square dancing competition, I’m sure it would be headline news here, but when the white folks best us at our own game (they killed it, be honest…I thought they were like…an all albino step group) we ask “well should they have been able to win in the first place?”
If we want racism to end, we have to stop being racist. Simple.
at 3:22 am
ZTA was on point and they deserve to win. How do you expect to have & keep unity between the different GLOs if they can’t give credit to another organization for doing a great job, I thought unity(brother&sisterhood) was why people join these groups.
I see why so many younger black people are choosing to pledge multi-cultural GLOs instead of the narrow mindedness of the D9s.
at 6:22 pm
ZTA did their thing… you wanna be the best, beat the best and ZTA were the best group to touch that stage!!!
at 10:29 am
Although stepping began with us, we made it sooo freakin cool that the white kids had to get down with it. Face it, they wanna do everything that we do and be just like us…! There is Mother Africa in us all!
at 7:14 pm
Yep, sore ass losers.
“Waaaah, waaaah, no fair! We black, we own stepping! White people can’t win! waaaaah!”
Step ya game up b***hes.
at 10:01 am
I hate sore losers. Unfortunately we can be some of the biggest haters on the planet sometimes. We hate to see anyone else do something as well or better than us. We try to diminish the accomplishments of other races who box, play basketball, rap, dance, sing whatever. These girls’ routine raised the stepping game to a whole new level. But we’re too busy putting significance on race to give them their props. Like it or not, ZTA set a whole new standard for stepping and that routine is the one to beat.
at 10:39 am
It shouldn’t be about stealing…..The fact of the matter is that they came and the brung it…..Their routine was on point….Thats our problem we feel like we dont have to cont. to work hard….to keep soemthing and that we should automatically get it because we orginated it… No people…..no….their will always be someone waiting to take your spot….Sprite should not feel guilty… The best team won..Instead of being a hubmle loser….we are know going to get the pitty win…
at 8:34 pm
ZTA earned first place. To me I thought that would just be a wake up call to step up your game. As a fellow Greek I was disappointed with many of the sloppy performances. I’m old school: Do it tight and do it right.
at 8:59 am
Well I was there that night and those girls killed it. They deserved first place. After the winners were announced people actually booed. I was disapointed I mean don’t be a sore loser. Afterwords I heard a woman say that sprite gave those white people our money and how we originated stepping and they came and stole it like they do everything else.
at 8:19 pm
Consider that imitation is the highest form of flattery. I think this is about sore losers.
sarahmina… not always true about blacks being canned before the whites. As a matter of fact, where my husband works (government) they redo the lists for layoffs to make sure they skip over blacks, women and older employees (minorities) and let the higher-ranked whites go first.
at 12:48 am
Gotta admit, ZTA’s execution was tighter than the AKA’s. Both were creative, but the AKA’s were a bit wobbly with some of the stunts and their cadence lost control at the end. ZTA’s were as tight as the frat’s tend to be.
at 3:11 am
Also I just wanted to point out to everyone that caps lock is not the cruise control for cool. NOBODY CARES THAT YOU CAN TYPE LIKE THIS. just sayin.