Retail giant Macy’s has caught fire after a Zeta Fee beta centennial steppers called the “various dance groups” in a Thanksgiving Day tweet.
Zeta Fee Beta, founded at Howard University in 1920, was one of the many exhibiting groups at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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“What’s that sound, you ask? Why is it a diverse dance group, Zeta Fee Beta Steppers!” Messi just deleted the deleted tweet. “They run a special routine together to help us celebrate this unprecedented year.”
The tweet asked for a response from MSNBC’s “The Readout” host Joy Reid, who explained that the Sentinel Steppers were not a “dance group.”
“The Zeta Fei Beta is a black sorority that was founded at Howard U in 1920 and is part of the Divine Nine.
Social media users called Messi’s description “downplayed” and insisted that Messi had used sensational steppers.
Blocking the scene of the pre-tapping of Messi’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in front of the flagship store in New York on November 25, 2020 meant pedestrians passing through a black curtain on Ped Ped Me Street. (AP Photo / Mary Altafer)
“I’m fed up with the business of using black entities (or historically black sororities and comrades) as a way to look and accept more ‘diversity’.” @_AwesomeKid added. “Due to the lack of your research for your own parade performers, it’s clear how demonstrative this effort was.”
“Zeta Fee Beta Sorority, Inc. has not existed for 100 years just to have Messina call them a” diverse dance group. ” IvTivonBlair.
Messi has since Published a separate tweet, Without accepting the deleted post.
“Look who just took the step. “We’d love to give @ZPIBHQ – an international, historically black sorority – to us in their centuries of #MassiParade,” he wrote.
Following the performance, Zeta Fee Beta tweeted a celebration message to their sisters.
“Congratulations again to our sentimental steppers who performed at this year’s Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade!” He said something. “You were all #finners and represented Zeta Fee Beta Sorority, well integrated!”
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Messi’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has kicked off the holiday season for more than 90 years, with more than two dozen floats with thousands of marchers and performers.
This year, due to coronavirus concerns, a parade was held in a one-block radius of 34th Street in front of Messi’s flagship store in Manhattan.
The Associated Press contributes to this report.
