The women of Zeta Tau Alpha made history recently when they were awarded first-place at Step Off, a prestigious step competition hosted by Sprite. What makes this victory historic is that step dance, a synchronized dance routine typically performed by nine women, has long been exclusively an African-American tradition. Zeta Tau Alpha is a white sorority.
Critics of Zeta Tau Alpha’s victory say that this is just one of many instances in a long history of culture theft by whites. Furthermore, these critics contend that while the art form’s exposure to a wider, multi-racial audience is certainly to be desired, the potential for non-black dancers to win is not. It is an insult, they say, for a white sorority to be awarded first place.
A brief explanation of the difference between white and black sororities. White sororities, which by virtue of being white are more exclusionary, are open to women of all races, and include many African-Americans. Black sororities, in an effort to preserve diversity, are exclusively African-American.
The people who don’t want white girls in step dancing would like you to know that they are merely preserving their proud cultural heritage, and despite so many marked similarities, are not at all like the evil bigots who strove to keep Jackie Robinson out of the Major Leagues.
WWJRD?
There was a great deal of grumbling over Zeta Tau Alpha’s victory, but the judges’ decision signalled that the art form was ready to embrace diversity and celebrate its coming-of-age in the wider culture.
White Sororities Are Exclusionary
Black Sororities Promote Diversity
Despite the furor from groups who thought it wrong that a white sorority won, the judges stuck to their guns. For a week. Then they realized they’d made an unspecified scoring error of some sort and called it a tie.
Critics of merit-based solutions hailed this as “a victory for all people who value equality and fairness above talent and hard work. The squeaky wheel really does get the grease!”
. . . Ms. Price let her husband die. As such, our vulgarity is germane to the discussion.
Even if this unrepentant black widow never sees a courtroom for her deeds, she’s doomed to live out the rest of her days, saddled with the guilt of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.*
*By ‘goose that lays the golden eggs’ we mean ‘small black actor who, insofar as we are able to determine did not actually lay golden eggs,’ but was a human being with all humanity’s accordant dignity, and deserved neither his sad death nor the snide comments Promethean Times has been making since then, up to and including this sentence.
Helen Thomas apologized for exercising her First Amendment rights, but she’s still out of a job.
WIR MUSSEN DIE JUDEN AUSROTTEN!
Why is an idea deemed heinous when voiced by a single, senile old bag, but excused away when expressed by the leader of a country with nuclear ambitions?
I'm Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, And I Approved This Message
George Rekers, a Baptist minister known for his anti-gay stance, was recently photographed while vacationing with a male prostitute.
All A Huge Misunderstanding. He Only Rented This Boy To Help Him With Some Hard Packing.
On the surface this may appear to be hypocrisy of the lowest order. However, supporters maintain that the closeted cleric’s actions are in keeping with Biblical teachings.
The First Epistle of RuPaul (from the SuperApocrypha, a portion of the Bible excised by the Roman Catholic Church in the 7th Century A.D.) settles the matter quite clearly, stating:
Go ye into all the world, and seek those whom I have made different. Wherever such people are gathered, go unto them with fists and stones and with unkind words. Let pass no opportunity to correct their sinful ways; let your rebuke be as the sting of the lash, for in shaming them you do them good.
Meanwhile, be ye a meth-snorting homo in secret.
Rekers is just one of many such “Sodomites For Christ.” These saints save souls on the downlow, but don’t ever think they enjoy it.
The use of stereotypes and the shifting of personal responsibility to a collective guilt remind me of the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.
Promethean Times deplores this unacceptable Holocaust comparison, which was made even more egregious by the abundance of acceptable Holocaust comparisons from which Fr. Cantalamessa could have chosen. Instead, he aimed low and chose to invoke this powerful comparison to defend the Church’s response to public anger over its own misdoings.
Something About Global Warming, We Think.
It is imperative that when Holocaust comparisons are made, they are made responsibly. Responsible Holocaust comparison means choosing an acceptable atrocity or deplorable condition which to compare. The following partial list of maladies and social ills have been found acceptable for Holocaust comparison:
AIDS
Racism
Global Warming/Environment/Climate Change/Ragnarök
Abortion
Famine
People Without Health Insurance
The plight of Native Americans in modern American society.
The Palestinian situation (for those who like their Holocaust comparisons served with a little irony).
Lastly, in what is generally considered an archaic usage, the Holocaust is sometimes compared to the genocide perpetrated against the Jews, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and just about everybody else by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
So Is The Whole Thing That The Nazis Wouldn't Give Jewish People Soup? Because We Thought There Was More To It Than That.
Texas Rangers Manager Ron Washington apologized for testing positive for cocaine last summer. Our celebrity-obsessed society dictates that what would be an embarrassing episode for a private citizen, must become an excercise in self-flagellation for anyone who appears on television more than twice a year. This is not only hypocritical and hurtful, but pointless.
Our sympathies lie with Mr. Washington. There is this bit of sticky business, however:
Washington said that he used the drug one time and it’s the only time he has used cocaine in his life.
Wha? Who tries coke for the first time at 57 years old? Really–who does that? Ron, we’re on your side here, but don’t treat us like we’re idiots.
Ron Washington is not the only person associated with the Texas Rangers to have grappled with drug issues:
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