I will start with a great idea……however gone sadly wrong. I am not going to hate on the fact that ZTA won they did great HOWEVER the fact that you took a tradition of Divine 9 Organizations and pulling other Greeks into is frowned upon by me and a group of Greeks that i have spoke to about this. It is a shame that we cant have our own ways of expressing our Orgs. Stepping and strolling is what WE do and NOT all Greeks or even auxiliary groups for that matter.

Again the tone of this is not of attitude it is more so of upset and a point out of how this show is all in all wrong to me. I feel like tradition should be respected. And not use D9 Greeks to gain numbers by only having them in your ads and promos.

Honestly people were not upset because they were white and they were the better team. They were upset at the fact that the AKA’s from IU had a much better routine with more difficult steps, greater technique, and killer precision then the ZTA’s and yet they still somehow manage to lose. Also the fact the Sprite used the faces and images of the Divine 9 only to give the crown to ZTA was also an issue. Don’t get me wrong, ZTA rocked it and deserved to place, but not win.

Congrats to the ladies for putting on a good routine…they deserved to win! So not only are white women taking all of the educated successful black men from black women but they are taking the step competitions too. Damn! Karma is a mofo!

As a 40-something veteran stepper and a judge of many step shows past, it is quite clear that the ladies of Zeta Tau Alpha stepped their a**es off!!! They stepped for more than 9 minutes with less than 70 seconds total of down time to rest and catch their breath. Their precision and execution –criteria that step judges pay close attention to — were outstanding! Ryan Cameron said it best at the end of their performance “Steppin’ is for er’body. If you can step, you can step!” A lot of times steppers are scored on crowd appeal. It was sad to see the same crowd that cheered and stayed on their feet throughout ZTA’s show, would sink to an audience’s lowest denominator and boo because the outcome wasn’t what they wanted. Had the ZTA’s been a black sorority, would the crowd have reacted the same way? Hardly. To members of the Divine 9, please use this year’s show as a motivation to get your organization’s step team together, practice, practice, practice and win the 2011 step off. Don’t hate, participate! Congratulations Zeta Tau Alpha!

The Zetas were good but lacked cadence and a certain je ne se quois. Yes, the AKAs did flip their hair too much, but their routine featured elements that the Zetas did not-balancing your leg on your teammate’s back while performing is impressive; gyrating your hips as if you are at a club is not. The Zetas were adequate. They were robbed just like the AKAs;the Zetas were rewarded for mediocrity. Alicia Keys is a decent pianist but she will never be in the same conversation as Beethoven. My point? The ladies of Zeta put on a performance that was worthy of recognition, but not much else. Their delivery was soft and dare I say it, I could almost see them counting the steps in their head. To exceed mediocrity, you must surpass being able to get the moves but evoking a response that sends tremors of emotions, not yelps of excitement at seeing someone drop it like it’s hot. I don’t think they should share the award. The AKAs should not participate and just stick to local circuits and HBUs.

Dear M,

Please allow me to explain something to you before you flip out on the reverse racism.
It is JUST as bad with us African Americans. If it were a black cheerleading squad honey, nothing would happen. NOTHING AT ALL. So don’t think that everything is uneven on our side because when it comes down to it, white is right.

Don’t believe me?

I live on the east coast. Please tell me why 2 weeks after the event, I found out about Pi Kappa Alpha hosting that “Compton Cook out” at UCSD and NOBODY did ANYTHING about it. It BARELY made the news.

How’s that racism for you?

I don’t see in colors personally, I think if you’re engaged to a black man you should start seeing it that way too because from how it sounds, you’re not doing to well with that.

ANYWAY
I don’t think the crowd was mad at the fact that it was a white sorority. I personally was pissed off because the AKA’s TAUGHT them most of the stuff they know. So maybe most of the crowd felt cheated? I know I would.

I first want 2 start off by saying…yes im blk now that we have cleared that. Iam very upset at the fact that ppl r hating on this soror ZTA. when i heard that they had won i just had to see there routine and what an explosive one it was. they stepped for nearly 10 minutes there were no dance routines no crazy voice over’s or skits they did some hard core pure stepping. so then i watched the AKA’s and yes they deserved what they got and that was 2nd place. first they started off with a routine that wansn’t even their’s it was janet jackson but i guess everyone missed that part and don’t get me worng the routine in a whole was good but ppl lets be honest they did not do better then the ZTA’s and i pissed of at the fact that sprite is not sticking up for these girls i know that mostly blk ppl come to these compititions so they gotta keep the money and sponsers from the blk community some how but to tell the ZTA’s that they have to share there crown which they have worked so hard for is complete [email protected]%T. but they say its not what you know it’s who you know and so the AKA’s got what they cried for a pitty win. next time step your game up and you won’t have to worry about being beat by some “White Girls”