New 'Sorority Sisters' VH1 Show: Black Sororities Boycott Network for Premiering Controversial Reality TV Show
On Monday, VH1 premiered the first episode of its new controversial show, "Sorority Sisters" which features nine women who are apart of different historically black sororities that make up what is known as the Divine 9, Starcasm reports.
The show features sorority sisters from Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, and Sigma Gamma Rho. And while the women of the show claim to be actual sorority members of the different organizations, Greek life social media users slammed VH1 and the show's producer, Mona Scott Young for airing a show which they claim misrepresents Divine 9 Greek life.
The Huffington Post reports that prior to the show's premiere date, VH1 released a preview clip of the show last summer that garnered immediate backlash from members of black Greek Letter organizations.
One particular Greek member, Reynoir Lewis went as far as creating a Moveon petition to stop the airing of the Scott-Young produced show.
"Stop the spread of ignorance and stereotyping of our beloved Black Greek letter organizations, Lewis headlines the petition. "Our founders amongst EVERY organization worked extremely hard to allow us to unite and flourish not only on college campuses, but as a people well beyond our college days, and Mona Scott-Young now threatens to demolish those aims and goals we all abide by."
So far, Lewis' petition has garnered over 53,000 signatures and aims to obtain a goal of 75,000 signatures.
But despite Lewis' attempt and the additional boycott attempts from other Greek members, VH1 still made the decision to premiere "Sorority Sisters" on Monday which refueled Greek members' opposition towards the show.
Greek members joined together on Twitter to create the trending hashtag #BoycottSororitySisters and also threatened to boycott the companies that endorsed the show.
Check out some of the tweets below.
Seriously @CountryCrock ?! You advertised your product on this crock of dung? Fire your sales & marketing team. #BoycottSororitySisters
— sharee (@bnsuga) December 16, 2014
c'mon @Target !!!! Do something. Pull your ads fr that show ! Make me believe in your brand again #BoycottSororitySisters — sharee (@bnsuga) December 16, 2014
#BoycottSororitySisters its a horrible representation of our organizations!! and you @SonyPictures are supporting that filth!
— Smokin' Guns (@Shorty_GoHard) December 16, 2014
Lawrence Ross, who claims to be a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the author of "The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities," was one of the many Greek members implementing effective ways to possibly stop the continued airing of "Sorority Sisters" on Watch the Yard.
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