Coca-Cola Agrees The Winners Can't Be White.

Originally posted by Dark Oracle
reply to post by harrytuttle

 

I was on a competition rifle drill team in High school, our female counterpart team performed a lot of this slap/step stuff in competition. After watching both performances and knowing absolutely nothing about this dance sport I'll list a few things I noticed.

1. The ZTA performance is more than 3 times longer.
2. Both teams perform lifts, however the ZTA team lifts a member on a platform so she can dance while they carry her. The TAU team launches their dancer and catches her.
3. The ZTA team demonstrates a much higher level of movement discipline which reduces distractions from their overall routine. The TAU team seemed more concerned with shaking their hair out of their faces.
4. The ZTA team showed far greater complexity in their slap and step movements than the TAU team.
5. The ZTA team showed far more enthusiasm and spirit in thier performance than the TAU team.
6. I honestly do not understand how both of these performances can be called equal. One is obviously performing at a much much higher level than the other team.

BTW Germany has had slap step dances for centuries.

Im sure you meant TZA. But the short video is not the competition video. The actual one on Youtube is around 8 minutes also and makes it a much better presentation. Though, I do agree with all your other points.

edit:
the Teams were TZA and AKA. (Tau Zeta Alpha (judge favored) and the Alpha Kappa Alphas (Coke favored))

[edit on 27-2-2010 by lordtyp0]

reply to post by Ausar

if non black people understood their exile and being slavs they would not use the term they do for the mistreatment of anything similar to their native kingdom;slavery.since this mistreatment is now accepted as slavery then slavs and exiles should be treated as such in like manner.and should be repaired after they brake; if reparations does occur.

Black people, stereotypically, love to play the race card to garner sympathy to win arguments. Why is that? Are you unable to accept that we, the "white people" of today - had nothing to do with black people hundreds of years ago that were enslaved by their own tribal leaders and sold to white settlers?



So...only black people know what its like to be slaves?

How about the Irish?



Or are they black as well?




Shouldnt you, by your own racist standards, be hating on black people as well? Most notably Africans? Since you know, they sold your ancestors....white people just bought them.

Originally posted by oozyism

Once again analyse the lifestyle of those people who have lost their culture, I already gave you three examples:

African Americans
Australian Aborigines
Maori

What about Northern Europeans? Add them to your list. Because if you knew your history, you would know they were a bunch of nature worshipping pagans living as much in harmony with the land as any of the groups you mention prior to the Romans and Christianity marching up.

Every group of humans has lost their culture to some degree. Culture evolves. It isnt static. If it were static we would all still be using stone tools and wearing fur.

Edit to add,

Nothing. I changed my mind.



[edit on 27-2-2010 by Illusionsaregrander]

Originally posted by oozyism
A people without identity is the worst thing you can have, so please leave them alone and let the African Americans have something to be proud of without you whites owning it.

BTW, am I the only one who thinks this is condescending?

"Let them have something to be proud of without you whites owning it."

You mean kind of like holding a special olympics for them so that they can win and feel good about themselves because they cant compete on equal footing with everyone else?

I actually have more faith in their ability to compete. I dont think they need a hands off approach in order to feel good about themselves. I am willing to bet the next step contest is going to be pretty dang spectacular because everyone is going to bring their A game and try harder. You dont help competent people by making things easier for them. You cripple competent people that way.

You make things easier or "let" people win when you assume you really are superior.

Consider that.

reply to post by oozyism


You sound as though you know what you are talking about, but you yourself are biased.

Who ever said cultural identity was important ? You use the word as if its a positive thing, not understanding that all things have a good and evil side. ALL THINGS.

Holding onto culture without analyzing how it can hold you down is not a smart thing to do. I too am Kiwi and part Maori, not all is good, and some of the evil was present long before Europeans got here.

Europeans only culture I can see , is "one of change". They let go of the patriarchal system that allowed wives and children to be killed or raped with impunity at the turn of the last century. That same generation who escaped the "culture" of the English was the first in the world to give woman the vote. Where as Maori woman are still not allowed to speak on a Marae, so obviously not much rubbed off let alone got stolen.

You can not blame every negative thing in your life on "settlers" or someone stealing your "cultural identity". When maybe someone's own culture is the source of half their problems. We are all responsible for our own actions, and culture is no excuse for doing something wrong.

It is a simple question....

If the oldest male in the village has the most rights, where does that leave the youngest female ?

What's with all the racism? Basically everyone is saying to the black people " I'm sorry someone that has the same skin color as me made you a slave." GET OVER IT! Now with people who are still racist here is my response "Slavery is GONE it ISN'T coming back! JUST CALM DOWN ABOUT IT ALREADY!"

BTW: I'm black.

reply to post by Snarf




Here you go.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

I don't know if you missed this but you said I said black people can't be racist. You made this claim while totally side stepping everything else that was presented, so I'm calling you out again. Either you misread something, have me confused with someone else or you're a liar. I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, and asking you to explain which it is, but if you continue to side step I'll know what the real deal is.







[edit on 27-2-2010 by EMPIRE]

The White girls got robbed!!!! The only consolation is more people know about them and their outright victory.

I watched both performances.

The white girls owned that competition. The crowd was all into their performance.

Coca cola was 100 percent wrong, the other team sucked, they were not nearly as good as the team who rightfully won.

I know when I compete, I dont want pity wins, they do not count and are demeaning and insulting.

I agree there is racism, but coke is doing it, and they are not discriminating in who they are racist against.

Whites, because clearly the victory was theirs honestly, they earned it, and to appease the black community, Coke caved in and took the racist way out.

They were racist to give a clearly sub par team a first place victory to share. It is demeaning and says hey even though you suck, you get to win too, because you could not do this with out our racist affirmative action. But you dont get to totally win, because you have to share your victory with the white girls.


This is about Coca Cola and its greedy racist actions.

I would not be surprised if for some reason this was a purposeful act on Cokes part to incite worse race relations. But I cannot figure out why, so maybe not.

reply to post by Ausar


Great. Who pays me if I have to pay you. Because some people did the same things to my ancestors, but apparently because I'm white I get to pay you for the errors of people who may have looked vaguely like me to people who think all white people look the same.

reply to post by orwellianunenlightenment


What on Earth are you talking about? "White" isn't corporate.

"White" is not and never has been any sort of culture. There are people who are white who are have ancestry to people who are European. Those Europeans do not now, or at anytime in the past, have had a consistent culture of ANY type. Let alone "corporate."

Corporate. Good God.

And here is some news - Africans do not have a consistent culture either. Nigerians are not Ethiopians. They aren't even vaguely similar to a Zulu. They don't even look the same.

Black isn't a culture either!

Maybe a leveling method could be introduced. Have all teams dress in complete body suits to disguise their race, have numbers instead of team names, and the judges don't know anything about the participants until final judging.


[edit on 27-2-2010 by Nyghtshayd]

reply to post by smarteye


Maybe they don't want to compete with white people so they have a better chance of winning

Originally posted by lordtyp0

Originally posted by Dark Oracle
reply to post by harrytuttle

 

I was on a competition rifle drill team in High school, our female counterpart team performed a lot of this slap/step stuff in competition. After watching both performances and knowing absolutely nothing about this dance sport I'll list a few things I noticed.

1. The ZTA performance is more than 3 times longer.
2. Both teams perform lifts, however the ZTA team lifts a member on a platform so she can dance while they carry her. The TAU team launches their dancer and catches her.
3. The ZTA team demonstrates a much higher level of movement discipline which reduces distractions from their overall routine. The TAU team seemed more concerned with shaking their hair out of their faces.
4. The ZTA team showed far greater complexity in their slap and step movements than the TAU team.
5. The ZTA team showed far more enthusiasm and spirit in thier performance than the TAU team.
6. I honestly do not understand how both of these performances can be called equal. One is obviously performing at a much much higher level than the other team.

BTW Germany has had slap step dances for centuries.

Im sure you meant TZA. But the short video is not the competition video. The actual one on Youtube is around 8 minutes also and makes it a much better presentation. Though, I do agree with all your other points.

edit:
the Teams were TZA and AKA. (Tau Zeta Alpha (judge favored) and the Alpha Kappa Alphas (Coke favored))

[edit on 27-2-2010 by lordtyp0]

I've been a dancer for about 15 years and I've dabbled into step. I completely agree that the TZA routine was much stronger than the other, from my prospective. The AKA or TAU team didn't seem to be very energetic as opposed to the TZA team.

I'm confused as to what happened; did the TZA girls win but then Coke said "mehhhhhhhr" and had the AKA/TAU girls win too? Or did they both win at the same time and the confrontation between the judges and Coke was hush hush?

Originally posted by Nyghtshayd
Maybe a leveling method could be introduced. Have all teams dress in complete body suits to disguise their race, have numbers instead of team names, and the judges don't know anything about the participants until final judging.


[edit on 27-2-2010 by Nyghtshayd]

Haha well that is definitely an ideal fix in this situation. If it catches on in other competitions then say goodbye to individuality and personal freedom.

When are we going to start treating and seeing others as simply Humans? Oh wait, thats right, we find it too hard to comply with that term.

We're just animals given the rights to use a brain, illusion of intelligence and manners masks the true form of our species. We are the apocalypse.

reply to post by Amelie

Those white girls could Step! Did you hear the crowd during their performance? I can't imagine those were just white folks cheerin. Those girls' moms and pops couldn't make that much noise. And, their outfits were slick! Reminded me of the Matrix. A bunch of Trinities competing in Step. And, those hand movements. That was some crazy hand jive!

Sorry, but the black girls just weren't all that.

Coke is retarded.

i was discussing this with an old friend of mine today - and he brought up a great point (not sure if anyone in this thread has brought this up yet, if they have, i over looked it)

Its February people.

Black History Month.

You can bet your sweet ass that those black girls raised a ruckus, and nobody wanted to be called the next Don Imus, so they caved in and made it a "tie"

Hey - as with anything - if you have to have special help in order to compete, then you weren't that great to begin with.

If the majority of black "Culture" thinks they need a crutch to compete in the real world, fine by me. Its not true, but they're not going to listen to some white saltine like myself.... But, it does remind me of a little skit


Equal rights require equal responsibility.

If you want to use a crutch, then you must admit that you are inferior.
If you want to be treated as an equal, then lose the damn crutch.

[edit on 28-2-2010 by Snarf]

Originally posted by davesidious
reply to post by minute2midnight

 

What are you blathering on about? Oh, the usualy "waah waah I'm white and I don't understand what it's like for people who look like me and who share my culture to be in power, and to hold the majority" diatribe.

I don't know anything about power, or majority. Are you saying that because I'm white, I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth? If I was, I've never seen that silver spoon. I've never been handed anything in my life. I grew up poor, I never had the chance to go to college.

Where were my rich, slave owning ancestors to hand me everything on a silver platter? I wish I could have the stereotypical 'white' lifestyle. I wish I had money and power. I'm no different than anyone else, a poor worker.

Tell me, what's it like to be part of the wealthy, powerful, white majority? Because I sure don't know what it's like.

The white kids clearly won.


But what I don't understand is every white person I know is part Cherokee. And it's always the same story. "my great great grandma was a Cherokee princess.

Please explain.