‘Step Sisters’ Trailer: Ain’t No Relation To Us

Step Sisters isn’t a movie that any of us asked for. I don’t know how the Netflix roundtable discussion went for this movie. I can only imagine that IF there were Black folks at the table their heads shook in a simultaneous revival beat of “Nah.” If any of those Black folks at the table belonged to a Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO), they straight got up and left.

In case you haven’t seen the trailer, let me break Step Sisters down for you. College campus. Fictitious BGLO seems to care about nothing but stepping. Fictitious white sorority gets in trouble and gets their charter snatched for some indecent exposure type deal. The lead protagonist is a Black woman who belongs to said Black sorority. Black woman wants to go to Harvard. She’s not stepping in the competition this year. White greeks need saving. Black woman to the rescue. Admission into Harvard is used to charm the Black woman into making the white sorority look good by teaching them how to step. The trailer goes on to show the white sorority learning how to do more than drink and the Black sorority questioning their soror’s actions. The trailer ends with the white sorority competing their little hearts out and mastering the moves of a historic and culturally significant practice among Black Greeks in a matter of days. Step Sisters looks like a smorgasbord of cultural appropriation, stereotypes and wack writing.

Step Sisters could only seem worse if they’d named it “Step Sistahs.” I don’t even know where to b…