Q & A WITH BLACK GREEKS || DIVINE 9 (NPHC) FRATERNITIES & SORORITIES

What I’m a black man with a full queen fine black man young man with a dream hi guys welcome back it’s just me here and I was not with me today but that’s because we are filming in two different locations for you guys and I’m filming

At rest school here at um Dean and she’s gonna tell soon like reprise started out because black people were not allowed to join traditionally white fraternities and right sororities it was basically a place for black people to come together they had a completely different focus – white people really really really

Emphasize being community basis being service based you can join these organizations either at college level which is where most people do join but there are also new graduate chapters that you can join later on in life so we decided to film this video because in England we don’t have anything like

Greek life from the perspective of black Greeks themselves telling you about what we like really is and what it means to them so the divine nine is basically just the NPHC which is the National pan-hellenic Council it’s composed of five fraternities and four sororities Omega Kappa Sigma’s alphas I Otis doses

Say this as heroes and you got the party boys you’re the ones I love the ladies never get it on black man and just call him nasty Nova that we’re looking at acute a stereotype you need to mesh to Burrell would be that we’re unattractive but I mean I think

Our stereotype actually kind of changed frou-frou so like before back in the day were seen as like the nerdy kind of stereo these kind of services are really bad because in some cases you know a young man like myself could actually want to be looking for a queen and

Everybody out there is thinking that he’s a hoe as a performer is that stuff show especially on performance and it’s showing off but you know there’s scale your talent your creativity your ability to mix humans together you know to dance and we put on a show it’s definitely

Different in strollin strollin it’s more like dense based movements you know and stuff in his life Chris all beat movements our thing I guess it’s not really a tradition but like one ak’s dude wheel escaped me pinkie ears you know so we each have our own my name on

Impulse I’m quiet thorn but together we’re final destination you gotta be there cuz we’re a lot more crazy like it’s like there’s a lot of things we know what’s on there how do you see this clip they don’t book that flight I wanna shoot that’s just an your friend on this

Day whoa we can sing I think what’s the difference black yeah of course actually do between black pencil why fancy just like the color obviously the difference if the divided line that’s only for black people no it’s not only for black people I have a white line sister yeah I’ll say black

Press are definitely more exclusive so we have like a profit Nationals overseas and you know it’s pretty like if you want to join one organization that’s the organization that you join discretion so for us you don’t really tell anybody yeah well what I was saying the difference is is like with black frets

That’s that carries on even outside of school funny black fraternity like it lasts forever like once you’re in it you’re in it for life I like I joined one basically because we’re on a radio minority in the US and I have the rest of my life to be

Surrounded by white people yellow goes no my name filthy rich I’ve been filthy rich before the frat but the frat didn’t give me some friends cuz I mean the two most popping people on campus are athletes and friends they keep your lanyard like they see your lanyard

That’s just everything so if any people that are no more girls to match once you become Greek you’re kind of like a public figure in a sense everybody thinks they know your business and they know who you want especially just coming out it’s like it’s so real

I think it’s all just fine who sure if it is black paper pencil house a campus lot of times you’ll have friends that you knew before you cross and then you’ll join one or there’s one another one and then our kind of like bring some kind of bonded between it

Yeah we love deltas I love Delta’s I love a gaze I mean the whole a rivalry between ak’s and deltas it’s all just really fun because in real life we are not actually yeah each other just because you’re a delta I’m beefing with you like that’s

At least that’s not how it should be you take me too seriously of this beef and black frat some glossary so what about hazing so of course I have to ask you a question what’s the do with hazing so as far as the divine 9 is concerned I hazing machemer already incorporated is

He not anything similar to yes Thomas I incorporated pledging 90 so a lot of people only believe like burning sands is what happens like and that that’s the kind of hazing that people experience when they try and pledge I would say you shouldn’t believe what you see on TV

That’s ridiculous they’re kids dying you know I mean of course we know that you know there are oh there have been accidents historically but we’re not we’re not in the business of hurting anybody no I mean Omega stop Fighting’s a non Hazen fraternity that’s that’s poor representation I mean I think I’m just

Try to focus more on the positive aspects of a friend this is not yes I did it’s definitely a real system just like your real sister you know you’ve already you bicker you get on each other’s nerves but you still know that they’re there it sounds cliche but honestly like

Brotherhood is like very very I just crossed basically and I just joined the fraternity three or four weeks ago so so it’s just really just you know something that you build and it feels right we were founded by seven educators actually giving back to the school sagen repeal

There is no liberation with wellness education so honestly the best part has been gaining that sister minute we still talk to profiles from back in the 70s and 80s and 90s and like these are people who still help us have to be you know after you graduate like road trips

Road trip road trip thing for me it’s been like the network just like being able to go anywhere in the country in our own world it’s just someone with the same letters need to connect immediately that didn’t like limitations let me see no limitation I want to see like well I

Mean it is very time-consuming the schools have like things like you know like it’s like nine in total d9 right at University of Maryland only five or an ultimate roof there’s like social media in pilots that are like very negative towards the Greek world and you know it

Kind of break those down a little bit sort of building us I was deep down I’m stereotyped like even if you want to actually take a girl serious I automatically French a few stairs because they feel like you don’t have any good at its most of the time we

Don’t and that’s us being they said why did you join this thing these Greek letter organizes in one row when you see like the people on campus doing what they’re doing in like those are ones making a different I mean they would have a socialized prioritize but no it’s

Like a point and for me personally I feel like one of the reasons why although the journals for confidence I grew up I had a um rough backgrounds when I got to college I still wanted to be myself but I also wanted to be part of something that was you know positive

When do you feel to be an alpha say this and ask the process for it the apply you have to put in your application get your recommendation have your financials prepared getting to know us or really getting to know the members of the chapter making sure that

You have a solid reason why you want to be in the organization I’ll say this is my boss job and if you have a website for our chapter with our own chapters history you learn more about the chapter that you’re interested in looking into why is there all the

Hush I mean it’s kind of like a surprise kind of a birthday party you know all of us are great organizations are all great organizations but we all bring something different to the table please dear ISA Xie research Teresa thank you guys so much for watching subscribe like share waste money anyway

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