Wow! Your too far to the left.
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Originally posted by Finer Woman10-A-91:
Gotcha...Its not a problem to me. Give some of the proceeds to charity if any of the NPHC is involved
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my organization is a service organization as well. Most of the function we do go to charity anyway. But this isn't an issue.
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...meaning,
we know people go to stepshows expecting to see NPHC groups step
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This is not true at all. I been in my organization for a long time (20years) and I've seen people come out expecting just what was advertised. I think it's a bit arrogant to say that stepping is only synonomous with NPHC groups. I know on HBCU, people know that even group like the Persian Rifles will even give a show any time any place. I think
that sometime we think that what is happening on our respective campuses is happening likewise all over the country. And that's just isn't true.
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...in consideration of this "exploitation" in its literal sense, I feel IMHO that some of the proceeds should go to the local NPHC philanthropy.
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This is a deep and conscending view point. My organization's stepping "tradition" is not a exploitation of NPHC groups. Saying this is assuming Stepping Came from NPHC group instead of the African history that one mention earlier.
Think of this senario. I know that stepping did not exist in 1951. This comes from a brother that is still alive today, and it represents as far back of a recollection that anybody that I know has. What if the Persian Rifles began to step in 1958 as part of their drill routine and the NPHC groups began to follow them in lets say 1960. No, I have not
read anywhere where this is true and i have not read anywhere where anything else says different. So if you say what we do is a simple exploitation, then you gonna have to prove it so I will not take this personally.
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I mean when I saw the Backstreet Boys stepping in their video, I was like...  I felt like whoa...robbed, everything and anything that looks cool can be emulated...thinking...b4 you know it folks will have "step dancing" classes that end with some sort of sorority/fraternity sounding call and I will be utterly disgusted.
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Why? may I ask? ....... Lets go to the real meat and cheese. I mean look at what we are doing. We are black people with white r heritage letters on our chest saying to white people don't do what we do. Deep Huh!
I could see your point if we were hollaring "Zulu!!!" and then they were trying to do the same. But we're professing black/greek heritage but frowning on greek/black heritage. As a black man, I consider it flattering that they think enough of it to try to perform the act. Because when it comes right down to it, everybody knows what culture it came from. I really can't see it being taking from our culture. It's not and shouldn't be that sacred a black object.
What do you think?