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Originally posted by PhrozenGenius
Before I became greek, I thought that mild dissing in stepshows was ok. After I became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, I saw the extremely personal nature of some of the shots orgs were taking at each other. My birthday was on yesterday. Me and my sands are a year old and I've been disgusted by some of the things I saw in the past year at stepshows.
A homecoming show at an HBCU in Alabama where one org. had an utterly confusing theme. (They went from being astronauts to the Dave Chappelle show to...hell we don't know.) Well, in the middle of the show a guy dressed like Lil' John runs out and say, "New Exclusiv $h!+!!! Ihave a box of applications for guys that tried to be XYZ that are now ABC!!!" They then proceeded to call names. The two orgs decided they wanted to square off in the middle of the gym floor...of course until one of them got maced.
At the same show, a certain sorority in their rush to call someone else "paper" threw out hundreds and hundreds of sheets of looseleaf on the stage...only to spend their last two minutes of time picking that same damn paper up.
A sorority at another Alabama HBCU that decided to diss their rival by creating a series of "Trapped In The Closet" styled skits in an elaborate diss show. On top of that they won...
A recent probate show where one of the neophytes decided to "Say F*** the _____'s, Who the f*** wants to be a ____ anyway! F*** they party! F*** all of them!" Yeah...intelligent huh?
I felt as though my probate was handled respectfully. We said greetings to all of the members of the divine nine that have been present on our campus. We then spit our history and greetings. After that we stepped and were unmasked. If your big brothers' greetings are amusing, there is no need for bashing. If the skits to accompany your line names are funny, who cares about bashing? Last, but DEFINITELY not least, if your steps are TIGHT people will remember.
Our skits were engineered not only to be funny but to publicize our party. For example, my 9's line name is "Gerber". We sang the "Pull Ups" song and then he got his 6'3" 265 lb. butt into a power wheels. We asked, "Where You Going?" He said (in a childlike voice), "I'm going to the afterparty at the House Of Alpha!"
If you shine, dissing is not necessary. It kind of speaks to an inferiority complex if people are constanly dissing.
Just my .06 cents...
Sorry for the length...
THE Ace
Spring '05
"Mighty Mouse"
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Well stated. How many intelligent, gifted, responsible, non-greeks were in the audience at those step shows? I wonder how many of them decided not to pledge anything after watching those ignorant displays? We are losing the interest of some talented people that could be assets to our respective organizations when we act foolish.
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