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Alpha Kappa Alpha announced as "co-winners" after national step competition results creates controversy
Friday, February 26, 2010



After days of controversy over a white sorority's win in a national step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola announced Thursday that the second-place team will share top honors.

The Epsilon Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority won the competition last weekend, which sparked controversy after the all white team beat out six Black fraternities and six Black sororities for the top spot. Step is a historically black art form of rhythmic stepping and clapping. This is the first year of the Sprite Step Off, but step contests are typically dominated by black sororities and fraternities, and A YouTube video of the winning performance by the University of Arkansas Sorority generated hundreds of comments, some of them inflammatory.

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.

They released a statement saying,

“Due to the extremely narrow margin between the first and second place winning sororities, we conducted a further post-competition review and discovered a scoring discrepancy. There is no conclusive interpretation, nor definitive resolution for the discrepancy."

Coca-Cola said Thursday the Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 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.

Who do you think should have won?

I have posted both of their performances below.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.: Tau Chapter - Indiana University





Zeta Tau Alpha: Epsilon Chapter - University of Arkansas






So you be the judge... Was it the AKAs or the ZTAs. Of course you know who I think did the best. Skee Wee! :-)

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