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Originally posted by Rain Man
To abaici and HK74:
You posts begs a very key and valid question: Why continue to step if you know darn good and well that it serves as a distraction from your true purposes, missions and goals?
If you don't want folk to approach you and ask questions about stepping and how to do it, GET RID OF IT, if only for a season!
Stepping serves no real substantive purpose if you constantly show it off to the world while at the same time hoarding the talent (which is all it is, just TALENT) for yourselves because it does not contribute to the world anything of real value. The message I am consistently hearing in this thread is "I can do it and you can't. I got mine, you got to get yours." That is my whole point.
Gotta get back to work.
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I'm not questioning whether NPHC orgs should continue to step because of what other people think. Not at all. All I'm saying (and have said) is that stepping IS NOT only MEANS that can be used to bring groups together.
For example (I can't remember who) but someone mentioned that at their school, the AKAs and Phi Mu's held a week together called "Think Pink" and that it was very successful. I know that may not be as jazzy or cool as showing them how to step, but that is the type of thing that I was referencing.
Seriously though, how has stepping, calls, etc. been "blown up" to where that's ALL that mainstream America associates with NPHC orgs? Is it featured on TV more than I realize? At PWI, are there step or yard shows held every month or something? This is a serious question that I'm asking because I am in the dark on this one. (Maybe because I attended an HBCU).
Or is it a case of when an NPHC org has a seminar on the AIDS epidemic, no one cares, but when its time to step, everywhere and they momma are there. And if that is the case, maybe it says more about US (the spectators) than them.