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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Excuse me, go ahead.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I just said it depended on a situation. We've done community centers, elementary schools, some high schools, so forth.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Any more questions? Questions?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We have time for one more question.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
This gotta be a good question.
Something hard, something that you don't think I can answer, or think that we can answer, that we can't.
Okay, go ahead.

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{SPEAKER name="Member of the Audience"}
Do you think that stepping is positive for the black community as a whole and how that will benefit the community?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
Ok, the question was do you think, do we think that stepping is positive for the black community and, as a whole, and how might we benefit or as a community benefit from it. Okay, uh, as you see, just having you here, right now, listening about stepping.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
I mean if we didn't step but we were just existing as the Fellowship, we may not be right here right now and, you know, talking to you, answering your questions, and you know, having the exposure that we do on the national mall, Smithsonian Institute.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
I mean, I'm from West Philadelphia and we go to school there and I probably still be there doing a summer job or something. Not just for the black community, I happen to believe stepping helps everybody understand just who we are as people, basically.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
And that we can communicate through different forms, you know, that's just a plus. Stepping, I think, benefits every race, not just black people.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Well, I think, I think further it is a cultural imperative, it is much the same as a Irish youngster doing the jig or at the half times of University of North Carolina games or West Virginia and they clog or they step. That, in other words, what they, whether unbeknownst or beknownst to them, what is being reaffirmed is an aesthetic.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Is a culturally agreed upon mode of identification and a part of that identity as one being Afro-American is the ability to dance, to move, and what they are doing is affirming that. They are affirming the intricacies of rhythm, they are polyrhytmical.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
A lot of that steps, I mean they have three, four, five different steps, improvisation, and so in a real sense they are saying that. It's just like Mohammed Ali was champion of the world, but he was loved by his people a bit more because he could rhyme and he could cap and he could talk that smack.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Which was something that (unclear)

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Bill Wiggins

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
could take care of.
Come back at three fifteen, you will see the dastardly Alphas, Kappas, Omegas and Sigmas go down the depths[?].
But we will see you, lets thank the gentlemen again for coming in and talk with us, we'll see you on the entertainment stage.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 4"}
Three fifteen!

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Three fifteen, Groove Phi Groove.