Steve Wonder could see that the AKA’s routine was much better than ZTA’s.

@attorneymom Waving “Hey Soror”! I’m glad that our Sorors are getting the money they deserved BUT I don’t like this whole “co-champions” thing. I feel like we are being patronized. I will not be supporting this event next year. There should have been judges that were Greek. ZTA won because of their novelty. I was there for the entire event. All of their steps came from D9 organizations. They put on a good performance but they didn’t deserve to win.

What’s sad about this whole ‘appeasing’ decision is that the black sorors now feel vindicated, validated. The white women won that one, fair and square, but the white owned and operated Sprite Company knows that the best way to keep black women controlled(in this case their monetary support of Sprite) is to ‘validate’ them. The ish is a tried and true remedy that white society uses to control black women. “Let’s make them feel we care/find them attractive/etc., by validating them with an interracial themed movie; co-champions with our beautiful white women, etc.” And black women just Skee-Wee happily along. WOW! They’re laughin at y’all!

It is also sad that Sprite put out a statement “awarding” a tie. The white girls won and if you have class you come back next year and kick their ass not cry you were cheated!

Those white girls tore the house down and should have been allowed to walk away with the first prize. AKAs needed to have come with something a little more inspired than shaking their extensions and the tired rhytmn nation routine.

Too bad that the black audiences would rather reward mediocrity as opposed to talent.

What’s really sad is that there is a sense of entitlement in thinking that the AKAs should have won. Why? Just because they are black? Is stepping a genetic predisposition.
If you look the two clips you’ll see that the audiences lost their mind the whole way through the ZTA performance…

I am mad as a competition should be about inspiring your peers and competitors to be better. I am mad cause those white girls will always know that they whooped AKA ass the black audience couldnt take it!

I am mad cause everyone knows you dont get mad you get even…y’all shold have come back next year and smashed it…instead y’all looked like you were in pre-k!

I am glad a hispanic group did not enter the contest and won, then folks would have been in a pickle about whether to cheer or boo.

Seriously, the Zeta’s were better. The Alpha’s routine was not crisp, clean or creative. It was a rather boring presentation. The mixed reaction of the crowd and comments proves that out. And yes it is sad that Sprite bowed to “blacklash” to satisfy a few clueless and apparently lacking in judgement folks (college educated no less) Folks cheered the Zetas but when they won….. Come on sistahs, get yo s___t tagetha.

@Chaotik,

Really? Really? So coming out doing the Rhythm Nation routine was original? How many times we seen that? I’ve been going to step shows since ’94. And since then there has been no lack of Janet routines. Boring.

The crowd went crazy because of 1) the novelty of it all and 2) these girls really did put on a good routine. Their coordination was seamless, it went straight back to the classics of steppin’. Killed it!

Anyway, less extensions, more invention. Next year AKA, try something new. Also, the black tights look…tired. Step it up please.

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@lnp03…so you think Rhythm Nation is original? You must have slept through this competition or you must be blind. As noted several times above, Janet routines are over and tired. Great job ZTA’s…there will be haters, but it’s a shame people cannot lose gracefully. To AKA’s…get a new routine, practice and stop crying.

What a load of crap!
Bending over backward to apologize for some different colored people getting “their” money?

“..now we gonna fix it”.
On the other hand the people running it can’t seem to handle a simple sentence in English so maybe the math was too tough as well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoVbR0_efy4 here is the full version of the ZTAs of performance as winners in Houston regionals a full 10 minutes of stepping the judges and the crowd loved them and no booing
I love my ZTA

I’m a 42 year old black female. I read all the statements above and am ashamed. The ZTA’s beat the AKA’s plainly in my eyes and they were very entertaining.
How can you teach them steps, coax them into entering and then get mad at them for taking what you taught them and winning? We (black people)in this instance, sound no better than the rascists who protest EVERYTHING President Obama brings to the table. The Zeta Girls were good period!!!
We (black people) excel in every sport that was originally white, (baseball, basketball, football, tennis, golf etc) we even have people playing hockey now. As long as we excel, cool, but as soon as we fail OMG it’s a conspiracy. People please get real. All we ever do is whine and cry and blame someone else. ENOUGH! Remember YOU coaxed them into entering because you thought they would make a fool of themselves, but who is the fool now? In other words you wrote a check that your butts couldn’t cash.
This is not about being black or white, it’s about being good and that’s what the ZTA’s were. I pray they don’t enter again and just walk away with a well deserved victory. Your Sorority is supposed to show you how to have pride and dignity. There was nothing dignified about this especially your made up, pacifying co-win. You should be ashamed as I am for you. Better luck next year if our people don’t destroy this too! The time has come to Grow Up, Shut Up and Step Up (if you practice)! Build a Bridge and Get Over It!!!

Thats the problem now, slowly white ppl move in on what is apart of our culture, and what makes us who we are.They are takin over everything and black ppl being as ignorant as possible, they will be full supporters of others comming in and takin over. Blindly..Just like music was stole away from us during elvis reign, dance is being stolen, and now step…