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Originally posted by SKEEphistAKAte
I disagree with it. Yes, stepping is what they associate with us, so why not go beyond stepping and show them the other things that we are about?
Let's not be shortsighted and make snap judgments here: How do we know the NPHC orgs aren't doing just that IN ADDITION TO showing them how to step?
I just don't see why we have to gift wrap our culture and hand it to them on a silver platter in order to have them "understand" us better.
Because sometimes situations require exactly that. No more, no less.
If necessary, we can tell them why it is "significant to us" without teaching it to them or giving them (proverbial) "permission" to use it.
While I see where you are coming from, but if we are going to bridge the racial/cultural gaps in America, you have to give them the whole kit-n-kaboodle. And sometimes for one to truly understand something, they have to do it by and for themselves. Call it cultural empathy.
I figured that a time would come when white orgs would throw hand signs, step, do calls and all of that, it just peeves me that we feel the need to hand those things over to them just because they ask for it.
I think there was more to the origins of how this event transpired than simply some NPHC orgs handing over their culture to some NIC/NPC orgs just because "they asked for it". Again, let's not make hasty generalizations without knowing the facts behind it.
But, like I said, I'm a product of the FAMU School of Psychology, so I guess I am ultra-sensitive when it comes to these things.
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When it comes to high-profile aspects of Black Greek life (stepping, calls, signs, flamboyant paraphernalia, etc.), you gotta take the bitter with the sweet. It's a new day where more of Black culture in general is beginning to become incorporated into mainstream America. And as time progresses, this will be more of the case.
Welcome to the 21st century, SkeephistAKAte.
