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This is Part II of a two part series that focuses on plagiarism in Melania Trump's Republican National Convention Speech (July 18, 2016) and its comparison to the the 2000 Bring It On cheerleader movie. The plot of that fictional movie revolved around the revelation that the captain of a White suburban high school cheerleading squad (the Toros) had been stealing cheers and routines from an East Compton majority Black cheerleading squad (the Clovers).
Part II provides more information about the 2000 Bring It On movie and showcases a video clip of the relevant scene from the 2000 Bring It On movie. This post also includes the words of the cheer that was chanted in that scene as well as selected comments from that video's discussion thread. That post will be published ASAP and its link will be added to this post.
Click #BringItOn #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotesTweets for Part I of this series. Part I provides excerpts from several online articles about Melania Trump's RNC convention speech and a video of her plagiarism of portions of Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention speech. This post also provides examples of tweets from #BringItOn #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes, one of twitter's responses to that speech which focuses on the Bring It On movie.
Part I also provides examples of tweets from #BringItOn #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes, one of twitter's responses to that speech which focuses on the Bring It On movie. T
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2000 "BRING IT ON" MOVIE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_It_On_(film)
Bring It On is a 2000 American teen comedy film that was directed by Peyton Reed and written by Jessica Bendinger. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union. It was the first of the Bring It On film series and was followed by four direct-to-video sequels, none of which contain any of the original cast members: Bring It On Again (2004), which shared producers with the original, Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006), Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), and Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009). The plot of the film centers around the competition of two cheerleading teams....
[Missy, a new member of the Toros cheerleading squad] drives Torrance [ the Toros new squad captain] to Los Angeles, where they watch the East Compton Clovers perform routines that are virtually identical to their own team's. Isis (Gabrielle Union), the Clovers' team captain, angrily confronts the two. Torrance learns that "Big Red" [the former captain of the Toros] regularly attended the Clovers' practices to videotape and steal their routines"...
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Bring it on cheer off!
08030944 Uploaded on Dec 12, 2008
Bring it on cheer off!
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HERE ARE THE LYRICS FOR THE CHEER/S THAT ARE FEATURED IN THIS CLIP:
Toros Cheerleaders: [Cheering at the game]
Let’s go Toros! [clap clap clapclap clap]
Let’s go Toros! [clap clap clapclap clap]
Let’s go Toros! [clap clap clapclap clap] Let’s go Toros!
[clap clap clapclap clap]
Aaaaaaalllll right! We're sweet! We hip!
We’re the best we can’t be beat.
We're the best, our team's too cool.
We got the class to rock this school.
[The Toros continue chanting. Members of the Clovers cheerleading
team chant these same words in the stands.]
Aww Yeah!
We bad, we got this game. We can't be had.
We're the best, so score them points.
You win the game, we'll rock this joint!
Clover Cheerleaders : Go Clovers! Go Clovers! Go, go, go Clovers!
[both Toros and Clovers] Our game is fierce and we are hip,
So get on back, you can't touch this!
Our game is bad, we're without fear,
So get that weak mess outta here!
The Toros end stop chanting. The members of the Clovers add these lines to that cheer:
Tried to steal our bit, but you look like sh-t*!
But we're the ones who are down with it!
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This transcription is based on several comments and corrections in that discussion thread.
*This word is fully spelled out in some comments in that discussion thread.s
These comments are presented in chronological order by their posting date with the oldest comments given first, except for replies. However, these comments may not be in consecutive order. I've assigned numbers to these comments for referencing purposes only.
WARNING: As is the case with many YouTube discussion threads, a number of comments in that discussion include profanity, and/or other content that I consider to be problematic. Curse words that might be included in the examples below aren't fully spelled out. I also didn't include most of the comment exchanges that I considered to be racially argumentative.
2012
1. SeLina Chisolm
"Clovers killed them on their own turf!! LMAOO one of my favorite parts of the whole movie lol"
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2. Emily Whitmore
"THATS ALRIGHT THATS OK YOUR GONNA PUMP OUR GAS SOMETIME"
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3. Emily Whitmore
"someday*"
-snip-
The cheerleading squad whose team was defeated chants this cheer to make them feel better about their loss. I collected this exact same cheer from two young Black girls around 2006. For what it's worth, they attended an elementary school in a majority White suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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2013
4. MsLaNatural
"greatest appropriation call out in the history of the media!!!"
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2015
5. Amireyah Tompkins
"NO RACISM UM BUT WHITE PEOPLE R ALWAYS STILLING BLACK PEOPLE THINGS AN CHEER AN DANCES AGAIN NO RACISM SORRY....#"
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6. beautiful bliss
"Well, they shut them up didn't they. BTW they cut out the part where Kristen said, anyone who thinks we need a routine raise your hand, the team an the crowd raised their hands."
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"Kristen" is a member of the Toro cheerleading squad.
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2016
7. Sarah SJ Simon5 months ago
This is what happens every time in real life. any time a minority person does something, a white person wanna take it and call it theirs.
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8. Ben noneofyourbeeswax
"+Sarah Simon that's why there's that rage, so "Bring it on!" was a good title to the movie."
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9. goldenhoney14
"GIRL,you are sooo right..lol"
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10. Ben noneofyourbeeswax
"+goldenhoney14
yep still happens till this day, they just reword it and call it their own. Or worse yet, put their name on your work and claim it as their own. I come back and play this clip when they try to pull that bulls&&t*, which is every single time. The clovers are original were as the toros are just some unoriginal second grade copy cats, oh and it's just a coincidence that they are white huh?"
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*This word is fully spelled out in this comment.
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11. Tiny Ice
"Exactly thank you"
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12. DeeJay Holmes
"cultural appropriation in a nutshell."
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13. izzibelful
"I wish people like Iggy Azalea and Kylie Jenner would watch this movie and learn something."
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14. Kyndra Lewis
"I don't see why everyone in the comments of this video is obsessed about thinking that whites stole everything from blacks. If whites think that stuff blacks originated is cool then I think blacks should be proud that they made something cool instead of being mad because they think someone stole it. They should only be mad if it was physical property stolen without permission. SO JUST CHILL OUT!"
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15. Brajae Joyner
"Thats the point. it was stolen property, music, dance routines etc... without permission. Whites made money stealing and didn't give any credit or shares to blacks"
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16. malik porter
"Melanie trump' stealing Michelle obama's speech brought me here"
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Regina George
17. "Melania trump vs Michelle😂😂😂😂"
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