The whole basis from the black sorority was stepping is a black thing how dare sprite award the championship to some white girls. The heavily bitched and were awarded co winners. At hand was $100,000 in scholarship money for every member of the team.
ATLANTA (AP) — After days of controversy over a white group's win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola said Thursday the second-place team will share top honors.
Coca-Cola said in a statement that a review of the scoring from Saturday's national contest revealed a "scoring discrepancy" that it declined to explain. This is the first year of the Sprite Step Off, but step contests are typically dominated by black sororities and fraternities.
Step is a historically black art form of rhythmic stepping and clapping. A YouTube video of the winning performance by a group of Zeta Tau Alphas from the University of Arkansas generated hundreds of comments, some of them inflammatory.
Coca-Cola said Thursday the Alpha Kappa Alpha team from Indiana University, whose members are black, would share first place and would also receive the same $100,000 in scholarships that the Zeta Tau Alphas won.
"Because the scoring discrepancy cannot be resolved and due to the extremely narrow margin between the first and second place winning sororities," the company decided to declare co-winners, the company statement says.
The national offices of both sororities said they were proud of their members and declined to comment on the Internet controversy.
The Sprite Step Off was created to award scholarships, Coca-Cola said. The tournament began in September with a series of regional qualifying rounds around the country. Six sororities competed in the national final in Atlanta Saturday. Six fraternities also competed among themselves
leph555
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What does "scoring discrepancy" mean? If judging is subjective, then doesn't that just mean they felt they didn't do as well?
jonSun
Classy audience
da sistaz dezerve it anywayz
Moral Hazard
Capitalizt
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Classy audience
yup..they didn't seem to have a problem with the actual performance. Only when the black team lost does the racism come flooding out.
Here is the winning performance btw..
boris_the_bear
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leph555
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jonSun
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tubularbills
DON'T BE STEPPIN'
leph555
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fo sho
Dj Minaya
Well looks like we'll have to send someone in to fix this problem right away...
