Step Sisters (2018)

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Step Sisters (film)
Step Sisters (film)

Step Sisters (2018 ) a dance comedy movie by Charles Stone III. Megalyn Echikunwoke starring as the main character, a black sorority girl who teaches the art of Greek stepping to a group of white sorority sisters.[1]

Summary

Jamilah is the president of her sorority, a captain of a dance group, student to the college dean, willing to join Harvard Law School. The movie tells about her mission to teach a group of white girl to dance, even to win the most competitive dance competition, Steptacular. The movie runs around culture conflict, romance, and sisterhood while everyone is stepping out of their comfort zones.[2]

Controversy

The movie tells the story of a black girl is teaching a white sorority about dancing the way black people dance. An enormous piece of the plot is about the effect of social allocation of black tradition by white people, yet includes a dance number with a lot of black girls dressed as a generic Asian ladies in silk robes and fans without a second thought.[2]

The film was blamed for being rigid, that it made its dark hero "the help" and supposedly encouraging cultural appropriation. One Twitter user, Nia Malika mentioned to Netflix: “We can’t have anything at all. None of us black sororities and fraternities are going to watch this foolishness. It’s African … Can we just have it please?”[3]

The plot focuses on a black woman, Jamilah, who has to teach a group of white sorority women to be able to get into the law school of her dream. "I think people will come away being pleasantly surprised that the take-away message is actually the opposite of white people culturally appropriating the black culture," said the actor who plays Jamilah itself. "The messages are a lot different, and a lot more profound." However a portrayal of the film advancing around the web has upset numerous black people.

"The way it was presented to me, it just put me off," said Candice Frederick, a film blogger. "A lot of my readers and followers kind of felt similarly, and a lot less diplomatic. ... There are a lot of (black) people not excited about this movie."[4]

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