What if I told you that Stomp the Yard wasn’t a 2hour commercial to convince you to go to an HBCU but was actually warning you against joining a black Greek letter organization Stomp the Yard warned you they didn’t want you to get caught up but you didn’t listen the movie’s
Critique of Greek life boiled down to three things elitism Greek Division and young men that don’t know when to move on from college everyone was looking down on Columbus Short because of where he came from while half the students in the fraternities looked like they were on their second
Marriage first the Gamu chapter tried to get Columbus Shore kicked out of the school in hopes of winning a step show yeah short was convicted of assault when his little bro Chris Breezy got clapped but his black males Gamu should have known that they were on the wrong side
However the gamma me chapter view Columbus Short and those who have fallen victim to the system as below them these old looking young men should be ashamed of themselves even the dean told Columbus that he’d have to stop dating his daughter Megan good if he wanted to
Stay in college he told sh’s character that Megan wasn’t going to date a College Dropout that cuts grass you can just smell the elitism we then find out that the dean is angry because he feels that history is repeating itself when he was in college his HBCU Crush decided to date a blue
College student student leaving him to marry Megan Good’s mother who had died turns out that college sweetheart was Columbus’s Aunt this man thought he deserved to be chosen because he had a high GPA and was accepted to grad school sir life doesn’t work that way also in a
Last ditch effort to get Columbus to join gamma me Zeke the chapter president told Columbus that if he joined the Frat that he could just snap his fingers to get him a job after graduation this speaks directly to the privilege that the fraternity was looking to promote
The second shot that stomped the yard took at black Greek letter organizations was a countless professional students that were highlighted in the movie half of them looked like they had a son old enough to smoke cigarettes the main villain in the gamma me chapter Darren Henson was 38 when filming the movie he
Knew damn well he didn’t look 22 this man was hitting on College freshman nearly half his age for crying out loud he tried to propose to Megan good when Columbus Short started get a little too close to Megan you know that sounds like someone who’s about to hit 40 and they
Said Neo was a second-year student more like a second-year PhD student Stomp The Y was trying to tell you something black Greek letter organizations will have you out here trying to stay in college forever I didn’t hear none of these brothers talking about an internship they were more concerned with stomping the
Yard last but not least Stomp the Yard was trying to tell you that a lot of these organizations don’t really mess with each other the entire movie each fraternity is talking down on the other the evil directors of Stomp the Yard whom I adamantly disagree with were directly trying to contradict the
Beautiful imagery of HBCU life that Nick Canon painted with the movie drum line while online DJ AKA Columbus Short decides to become intimate with Megan Good who had only broken up with their boyfriend two days prior damn that’s cold blooded it’s that type of disrespect that you’ll remember got
Chris Brown clapped at the beginning of the movie also to take it a step further the movie challenges whether the members of the same fraternity truly like and respect each other for example the president of the gamma me chapter goes against the VP to encourage Columbus to join the
Fraternity Columbus tried to steal his homeboy’s girl multiple times and your idea is to recruit him to the fraternity because he knows how to Harlem Shake come on man that’s mad disrespectful mind then was tripping now you tell me based on the picture that stomped the yard painted do you want to
Join a fraternity like this this movie repeatedly attempted to disparage organizations that have historically done so much for the black community by highlighting the elitism professional students and the lack of unity amongst black Greek letter organizations and as a disclaimer Stomp the Yard was talking down on black Greek letter organizations
Not me let me know in the comments if you agree with the critiques that the movie made if you like this video please clap that like button like Chris Brown was in the first three minutes of the movie thanks
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