Hey what’s good people it’s your boy khalil amani i’m back as you see i’m decked out in the alpha phi omega i keep doing this but it’s on this side alpha phi omega uh and i wanted to do a follow-up video from the last video because i talked about you know my fraternity
And i wanted to kind of talk about fraternities in general and talk about the great uh times and great funds that you have as a member of a fraternity so in my last video i talked about the pledging and the hazing and getting your ass whooped and you know made to eat apples
That are really onions and i talked about all that oh we know what i want to start out with showing you i got my alpha 5 mega jacket on i bought this jacket 36 years ago way way back in 1986 i was in washington dc at howard university
I didn’t go to school there but i got my jacket from there and i uh i just so happened to go to howard university and have this jacket made but some kind of way they messed up something they had on here that i had actually pledged
In the fall of 1980 when really it was the fall of fall 79 1979 so all those years for 36 long years i’ve had this jacket i’ve had the wrong pledge date on my sleeve and i just went ah 79.80 what does it matter but it always bothered me that it had
The wrong date i pledged in the fall of 1979 so i took this jacket just last week to an alterations place a seamstress and they changed the date from 1980 to 1979. now it’s not exactly you know the coloring and everything but i don’t care about that i just want to
Make sure i had the right [ __ ] date and so these letters were actually white the letters were actually white i took a a yellow marker that you can mark on clothes and made it kind of shady made a little bit a little bit yellow or gold so now i have the proper
All these it’s bothering me all i said it’s it’s bothered me all these years that this said fall 1980 when it should be fall 1979. the same year that my mother died so i had that fixed so even though uh yeah the jacket is 36 years old
And you know what’s cool about the jacket today even though when i bought it i was about 50 pounds lighter and it was baggy it fit real baggy and everything and now 36 years later everybody’s wearing their skinny jeans everybody’s wearing their their jackets tight so it’s tight on me
But that’s how they’re wearing their jackets anyway so as you see it’s tight but it fits it’s tight but it fits and as you can see the logo on the back and whatnot so it’s actually fitting the way they wear their clothes today all right let gonna take my shaves off
So i wanted to talk more about alpha phi omega and just give you uh you know some of y’all might be wondering you know why do people pledge fraternities and sororities and of course you have the whole conscious community so-called conscious black people
Who think it’s a crime to be a part of a greek fraternity because black folk aren’t greek yeah you hear that out there of course these are people who are well into their 30s and 40s and 50s and 60s who have done a little reading who are a little more enlightened
Who fancy themselves you know so-called conscious as though the rest of black america is unconscious uh they don’t take into account that people who join fraternities are usually between 17 and 20 teenagers and young people who go off to school some of them go away to college
They leave home they leave mom and daddy for the first time in their lives they’re in a different city a different state they don’t know anybody and of course it’s in our nature to become a part of something so they go off to college and they see these different
Organizations as a freshman i said in another video most colleges don’t allow uh freshmen to become members of fraternities and sororities you have to first do one year of college have a gpa a gpa a grade point average of at least 2.0 is higher and depending on what the fraternity or sorority is
And have like i said going to school for at least a year so your first year as a freshman you’re just watching you’re looking you’re seeing alpha phi alphas you’re seeing omega sci-fi you’re seeing uh five beta sigmas you’re seeing zeta five beta you’re seeing alpha phi omega you’re seeing all the different
Fraternities well i’m talking and i’m really talking to about black schools you go to white white schools they got all kind of other fraternities pie pie capper pie omega omacron sigma they got this whole it’s just thousands of fraternities but of the seven as far as my fraternity as far as my fraternity
My fraternity is at 700 let me get my paperwork here my fraternity is at 775 colleges and universities i said my fraternity alpha phi omega is at 775 schools universities and colleges now if you know anything about hbcus the word hbcu those letters hbcu it means historically black colleges and universities
There are 107 hbcus 107 historically black colleges and universities basically these are colleges that are historically black predominantly black 98 black yeah and although my fraternity is not a black fraternity it’s actually created and started by white men way back in 1925 and it’s not a social fraternity it’s
What they call a service fraternity you have social fraternities and you have service fraternities don’t get it twisted though even though this is social fraternities and social sororities they do activism and they do show they do social stuff they help in the community but they’re still labeled as a
Social fraternity alpha phi omega is labeled as a service fraternity which means you can actually be a part of my fraternity and you can still be a q-dog or kappa you can be an aka the other thing about my fraternity also is that it’s open to women you hear the word fraternity you
Think men you’re the word sorority and you think women that’s how it normally is this is a fraternity but this is a fraternity that has opened its door to women as well as men because it is a service fraternity somewhere i believe was 1975 is when they opened their doors to women
And i think in 1976 they made it official that my fraternity can have women in it now when i pledged in 1979 no one told us that women were not allowed in our fraternity we had women that were part of our fraternity but we were but they were just simply called
Phi s they were like fraternity cheerleaders you know they were our cheerleaders they were part of us but they weren’t full members they didn’t go through hell night and crossing the burning sands and hell we can get paddled and go through all the [ __ ] that we go through to become a member
And to wear these letters but now again service fraternity open to men and women now when you go to a historically black college or university in hbcu yes i know you felt you’re familiar with the the q’s and the kappas and the sigmas you know akas you’re familiar with all those
Black sororities and black fraternities but if you go to most hbcu’s most historically black colleges and universities you will actually see alpha phi omega standing right next to omega psi phi kappa alpha psi zeta phi beta phi beta sigma and on and on and on that’s right black colleges and universities like
Saint augustine college alpha phi omega clark atlanta alpha phi omega langston university in oklahoma alpha phi omega dillard in louisiana alpha phi omega alabama state moore house albany state jackson state mississippi valley state these are just some of the schools hbcus that you will see alpha filemaker we’re at howard university
We’re at florida memorial university in miami we’re at florida a m university aka famu tallahassee we’re at bethune-cookman college in daytona beach we’re at alabama a m we’re at tuskegee university we’re at fort valley state we’re at grambling and fisk and jackson state and xavier and north carolina carolina and t
Prairie view a m southern university texas southern and winston-salem those are few of the 107 historically black colleges and universities that you will find even though we are not a black fraternity you will find alpha phi omega national service fraternity at most historically black colleges and universities i just want to make
That point we are not a exclusive black fraternity we were created by white men and then in the late in the mid 70s we opened our doors to women women can actually be full members full brothers of alpha phi omega okay got it got it just wanted to get that
That’s what that’s what distinguishes us from you know the kappas and the q’s now when you go to a historically black college you know for every for most of the fraternities they have a sister fraternity like the alpha alpha kappa alpha alpha kappa alphas or the aka sororities
Their brothers are alpha phi alphas alpha a58s you got the uh delta sigma thetas sororities their brothers are omega psi phi got it kappa alpha psi they actually have no sisters they are by themselves then you got five beta sigmas the brothers phi beta sigma fraternity their sisters are zeta phi
Beta and we too have a sister sorority we are alpha phi omega our sister fraternity is a return a sorority called gamma sigma sigma now there is a black sorority called gamma sigma rho don’t be confused between gamma sigma rho a black sorority and gamma sigma sigma a
Not black but it is our sister sorority and gamma sigma sigma is also a service sorority i’m going to show you on the you on youtube uh just some of the young men and women doing steps step shows now if you’ve ever been to a black college
Or if you live in the south you don’t see us a lot in the northern and far west but especially when you go down to the south they have something called a step show aka they call it an extravaganza and basically this is when all of the fraternities and sororities
Usually meet in the gymnasium or outside on some wide open space and they all do these different steps steps that are reminiscent of the old call and response african griot kind of tradition we do that and nowadays you actually see white sororities and white fraternities they have gotten into the mix too
Because i’ve seen on youtube them doing steps but we started that [ __ ] when i say stepping it basically is like marching and it’s like dancing it’s a little bit of marching a little bit of dancing a little bit of call and response and whatnot i too
Was part of uh a fraternity which is this one and we had a step show too normally they line you up by height from shortest to tallest and so i was the number one because i was a shorts online but uh yeah i just wanted to say that you know we
Going to college number one going to college is something that we should try to instill in all of our children to go number one number two as far as black people are concerned if you can get them to go to an hbcu in a historically black college university that’s a beautiful thing not
That they have to they could go to a ivy league school they go to harvard or yale or princeton or brown one thing about going to harvard princeton yale around you pretty much guarantee a career and a job when you get out of there because those are like the
It’s like the big ivy league schools and there’s nothing wrong with going to a multicultural school don’t get it twisted but there’s something about going to an hbcu do you want to know that i go to an hbcu i did for one year i went to bethune cookman college
Which is now bethune cookman university in daytona beach florida i was a member of the marching wildcats i was the first class in the marching band that they changed the name from the marching men of cookman to the marching wildcats in 1978. prior to 1978 the marching band at bethune-cookman was
All men all males and the year that i tried out the summer of 1978 they allowed women to become part of the band and they changed the name from the marching men of cookman to the marching wildcats that happened the year that i entered so i spent a year at an hbcu
I did not graduate from there because a lot of different issues my mom uh was was dying i had to go back to miami uh my money was funny i just i was lonely i was in love with the girl back home there’s a lot of reasons
That made me just drop out after one year and come back home and so i came back home and i went to a little school where is that close on one second i should have that up oh i got ready i went to a little school in miami a little two-year college
Called miami-dade community college and it is that miami-dade college that i actually joined alpha phi omega national service fraternity incorporated here’s a picture from the college newspaper which i showed in the last one but i’ll show it again it’s from october october 24th 1979 as you see it’s called the falcon times
October 24th and we were in the paper but turn it this way turn it this way that’s me i was number one this is a step show ak extravaganza and those are the four brothers that three brothers that i pledge with number two is my best friend roger green
Number three and a guy we called tater head milton johnson is number four so that’s i still have this picture from that long ago i don’t know how i keep this stuff but i keep it that’s right and as i said before in my last video we were when we pledged
We pledged underground excuse me i’m looking for something oh here it goes when i pledged alpha phi omega in 1979 our actual chapter was suspended by the national board of alpha filemaker we didn’t really know that that these guys didn’t they was kicking our ass and they didn’t even tell us
That we weren’t even a legitimate bona fide chapter although the chapter’s name is sigma chi sigma kai at that time we were suspended we were getting i asked for and didn’t even know that we were not bona fide members of alpha phi omega once we became once we crossed the burning sands
Hell night learned the past and the grips and handshakes and that [ __ ] we didn’t even know that our chapter was suspended because we were looking for ours you know a cert a certificate something to say we were members and then that’s when we found out that basically basically found out that we
That our chapter that we have blood sweat and tears for was suspended by the national chapter it’s like okay but we still rock we didn’t you know we were young we didn’t care we still rocked the colors and rocked the patch we had you know we knew all the
Ins and outs about it but we didn’t get it it wasn’t until 1986 that brother his name was trap rest in peace brother trap brother trap applied to the national uh to national board because we became my chapter got it uh became renewed again and then so in 1986
A big brother named trap he applied for us to become legal full members of alpha phi omega so some seven years let’s see some seven years later he submitted my name and my brother’s names to the national chapter so that we could get our certification to become legal brothers
Of alpha mega alpha phi omega and so this is my this is my certificate my certificate that i got you all know my biological name used to be lloyd clark miami dade 1986 and so it wasn’t it was we replies in 79 but it wasn’t to 1986 that we actually became members four
Members of alpha phi omega and we got a certificate and we got our names in the books as real members of alpha filemaker that’s the backstory to that okay let me just show you we’re gonna go on the on the internet and i want to show you um
I’m gonna show you what’s so exciting joining a fraternity is one of the most exciting things a young person can do going off to college going through the pledge period which can last from four weeks to 10 to 12 weeks depending on your fraternity or sorority it can be a
Hard hard time you’re not just going to walk into the fraternity or walk into the sorority they are going to try you with fire they are going to take you through a long arduous process you are going to go to something called hail night and you are going to cross
The burning sands and when i tell you those sands can be hot they hot again i pledged in fall of 1979 now i understand that nowadays they’re not pledging that the hazing is not as bad but back in the 70s they have this thing called hazing hazing means you get your ass whooped
On the regular for whatever during the pledge period it is the job of all of the big brothers for all of the big sisters to try to make you drop lying they trying to if 50 of you all come out they trying to weed out because they
Only want the best of the best of the best so they like to slap you around and paddle you and call you names all kind of crazy [ __ ] to see if you have the intestinal fortitude to be a member of their fraternity or their sorority and every big brother when i say big
Brother big sister when you are trying to become a member of the fraternity you are called a pledgee black folk use the word pledgee white folks they’ll say pledges either way your pledgee or pledge is depending on if you’re a wife attorney you’re a black fraternity anyway you are an initiate
You are trying to join it and so you have to go by a bunch of [ __ ] up rules and do a lot of [ __ ] up things and the people who are over you members of the organization members of the fraternity members of the sorority already they are called big brothers or big sisters And every big brother and every big sister has a name that they want to be called by big sister so-so big brother evil eyes big brother filthy mcnasty big brother barbershop slim big brother whoever And some of these big brothers and some of these big sisters they’ve gone home and they’ve made up whole rhymes so that when you greet them you have to greet them by this whole piece of poetry that they’ve written up given it to you and you have to memorize
You have to memorize it oh yeah a lot of the big brothers and sisters when you greet them when you see him good morning big brother so-and-so i got an example something goes something like this good morning brother so and so we’ll say big good morning big brother evil eyes
Is there anything i can do for you shine your shoes get you some booze tell you a joke get you some smoke get you some wine tell your woman she’s so fine is there anything i could do for you big brother evil eyes i still remember that [ __ ] we just have
To say that and we said it all together there were four of us but however many there wasn’t you four of us we had to say that [ __ ] in unison good afternoon big brother evil eyes is there anything i can do for you shine your shoes and we have to bend
Down too shine your shoes get you some booze tell you a joke get you some smoke get you some wine tell your woman she’s so fine is there anything to do for your big brother this [ __ ] was hilarious and when you did that you usually did that on campus
In front of the whole student body whoever was out there 1500 people be out there you know going to class walking by and all of a sudden you hit this loud this unison voice of you know 5 or 10 or 15 or 20 guys or girls
Saying the same thing at the same time shouting at the top of their voices and the whole campus stop and look smile laugh and be like yeah like that’s that’s dope you know and so while you’re on while you’re out while you are a pledgee while you’re pledging you are becoming
College famous you are becoming known because the student body they’re watching the whole campus the whole student body is going oh this is the guy he’s playing this oh she’s pledging that oh he’s cute oh she’s fine you are you you’re getting noticed you’re getting noticed so you go from
The obscurity of being a freshman where nobody [ __ ] knows you next thing you know you’re you’re you’re a sophomore or a junior pledging and now the whole goddamn school knows you because they watched you they they they walked with you on your pledgey journey they saw you when they shaved your heads
And had you wearing white t-shirts and you know boots and standing attention and whatnot at some time a big brother would see another student on campus another fine woman that he that he was looking at he’ll send you over there hey go over there and tell that woman
Go over there and get her phone number and you best come back with a phone number it might not be hers so you know we’ll be online brother come with me here go over there and say something that girl over there for me go ask her what her name is you run over
There excuse me miss big brother so-and-so would like to know what your name is he’s interested in you and sometimes the girl would smile boy get out of here i’m denise or whatever uh who and you my big brother over there and you know you come back big brother her name is denise
She says you’re handsome too and then he might send you back over there with another message oh yeah we were aaron boys we it was fun but it was fun it was fun being bossed around it built camaraderie the guys you were online with you became super super close
And of course it all culminated with becoming a member going through the roughest night of your life which is called hell night and becoming a member so now what i want to do i want to show you the different black fraternities and sororities and you can see for yourself the amount
Of fun that they’re having so let me get over here my computer i know somebody said well why are you joining fraternities why would you take an [ __ ] why do you want to be bossed around you know it’s deeper than that that’s just that’s just part that’s just part of what it is
So i want to start out and i’m going to show you the different sororities that are common on black campuses the different sororities and fraternities that are on black campuses and then i’ll show you my fraternity i’m going to show you okay so we’re going to come over here in the commuter
We’re going to start out with delta sigma theta delta sigma theta is a black sorority and what you’re about to see is like this woman right here with the shirt on she’s a member these women are members already but the women in the back that you see
These are what they call pledgees they are prospects they are initiates they’re trying to become members of the sorority so just take a quick look [Applause] you hear all that screaming and clapping and shouting they’re going into uh probably a basketball gymnasium and there’s literally thousands of
Other students in there cheering them on all of these girls no people in the audience and they are rooting them on they’re cheering them on they’re like come on bring it they’re shouting them out they all got the data delta sigma theta’s colors are red
And white and black so you got the red and white on and then the black the shades doesn’t this [ __ ] look like super fun being in college there’s a lot of them too now when i was online like this pledge it was only four of us
We started with and only for four of us made it over but look at the look at the amount of women that are actually becoming members of delta sigma theta good luck um this is called this is the line show this is stepping so now you’re kind of seeing what they do
Uh let me pull it down this goddamn commercial so yeah you can kind of see you know what they do it’s it’s pretty dope it’s pretty dope what they do So who wouldn’t so who wouldn’t want to be a part of something like that isn’t that just see all the students in the background all up in the bleachers they’re rooting them all they’re having the fun and all these people in the background they are learning who these people are
They’re becoming famous and popular you know in their school now that’s delta sigma theta now delta sigma theta has a uh a fraternity that that they call their brothers and that would be the q dogs you all are very familiar a lot of y’all with the q dogs aka
Omega sci-fi so here’s omega sci-fi this is the brothers of delta sigma theta the ones you just saw You’re barking like dogs that’s why they come to q-dogs they bark [Applause] and we just we’ll speed it up a little bit see what’s going on oh these are black fraternities in black sorority that’s omega sci-fi and you saw delta sigma theta let’s go to uh akas this is alpha kappa alpha this
Is a sorority their colors are pink and green let’s watch them it’s a lot of them too [Applause] let me just say this about the uh two dogs are known to be what they call you know nasty this is aka aks they’re pretty much known to be
Like the cutest girls in the school a lot of high yellow this is this is a stereotype this is a generality but because you see some of them some of them are dark but akas you find a lot of high yellow chicks you know sisters red bones
That are akas not all i’m just saying that’s kind of the stereotype you know the cues are the cues are nasty boys that’s what they call them cute dogs and you know the akas they’re pretty girls high yellow red bones or either the most prettiest women in the school
That’s basically it’s a generality but these women are good looking women fine as hell akas again notice the crowds in the background literally thousands of people come out this is what you do in college life it’s not just about studying books and you know you got to have some extracurricular activities and outlet
So those are the aks now the akas have a brother fraternity called the a5as you see akas now these are the a5’s alpha phi alphas and their colors are very similar to my colors but they are black and gold or black and yellow but it’s supposed to
Be black and gold alpha phi alpha was the first black fraternity that’s why they used the word alpha and then phi in an alpha alpha is the first so here’s the brothers of alpha phi omega plugin excuse me alpha phi alpha Hey so that’s a5a as you see on this shirt um a5 a5a’s is uh you know they’re they’re thought to be smart guys on school uh studious kind of guys that’s the a5as um and if you if you look at their symbolism they actually use a lot of african symbolism they use some
Egyptian symbolism they have a sphinx actually you can see right here it says a5 you can see the sphinx right there so they have a little bit of african heritage thing going on in their uh fraternity that’s a fight now we’re gonna go to uh who is this here zeta phi beta
Sorority let’s watch this this is a black sorority it’s called zeta phi beta thank you their colors are blue and white no i’ve been changed you know that zeta phi beta know i’ve been changed cause they too far better done sign my name she owned that post for a
Long time that’s pretty good god damn What’s up in the time and i heard that all right i don’t think i played the music because i don’t wanna get copyright strike or whatever all right so that’s 85 beta now they have a brother fraternity which is blue and white and the brother fraternity is called
Five beta sigma so let’s look at phi beta sigma blue and white also this is the this is the min side and these are pledges members trying to become members and all the guys standing around the guys standing around those are real neighbors [Applause] oh oh okay that’s five better sigma
All right now we’re gonna go on to kappa alpha psi five beta’s oh let me say there’s five better sigma known as a lot of people say five beta sigma are gay dudes that’s not true but they have there’s little stereotypes about people now this is kappa alpha psi or known as kasai
The five representing the five new pie and what do they say about the kappas they say the coppers are the cool [ __ ] on campus the dressers the high yellow pretty boys and [ __ ] like that on campus that’s what they say about the kappas and you’ve seen them they have their
Canes and all that kind of [ __ ] their colors are red and white smooth let me see if i can find them with their canes i know they’re gonna break out the canes yeah i think the canes are about right there there you go the coppers use the cane see the candy canes watching
[Applause] oh [Applause] somebody else isn’t that dope and again the kappas they don’t have a sister sorority that rocks with them they are by themselves again you see this whole gymnasium is filled up to the rim people come out this is what they do in college life all right let’s go
Now we’re going to go to we’re going to go to sigma gamma rho that’s a sorority and their colors are blue and gold like mine like alpha phi omega and they don’t have a brother’s sigma gamma rule uh no they don’t have a broth no i don’t think so so this is sigma
Gamma rho their colors are blue and gold sorority a black sorority me [Applause] is you know you know what’s funny the song they’re singing right now i sing this [ __ ] way back in 1979 they said i got a feeling i’ve got a feeling brothers i’ve got a feeling
Somebody’s trying to sneak in my frat it ain’t going to be no [ __ ] like that they still doing this [ __ ] this is from what year this is from 2016. and we was thinking to sit in 79 it should show you the traditions and you see that’s the colors sigma gamma rho
Yeah it’s amazing that i steal the songs they’re singing today we sing back in 79 so that’s sigma gamma rho now there’s also okay let me show you another fraternity that you might not have heard of they’re not as popular they’re called groove fire groove they are a fraternity a social club all
Right see how they have to repeat stuff i was talking about that earlier so that’s that’s g5g group 5 groove um did i show the oh okay now let’s this is mine this is my fraternity omega sci fi and this is kappa psi kappa psi is a family i believe
Yeah this is fam you and these are the young brothers trying to become members rocking the blue and gold you see the sign the same thing you see on his jacket alpha phi omega right there you see it on my jacket right there alpha phi omega got it
Got it all right so let’s watch a little bit of my brothers let me fast forward So what they did was just give me the history of the of the uh fraternity let’s see what this is here as you notice they shot from the shortest person to the tallest that guy in the front that was khalil amani way back in 1979
The shortest guy or the line yes i was great matter of fact yeah that guy you looking at that guy you’re looking at the first one the shortest guy online that was khalil amani in 79 as you see i’m the first one online only four of us there they’re about what
Eight or nine of them however many yeah bring back memories I want to see what kind of stepping they doing every time i just think it’s funny how it goes so that’s my fraternity now my fraternity actually has a sister sorority it’s called gamma sigma sigma not to be uh not to be confused with gamma sigma rho which you saw earlier
This is mine it’s called gamma sigma sigma and gamma sigma sigma is a social excuse me gamma sigma sigma is a service sorority it was started because two of the girls way back when were dating two of the brothers of my fraternity and back in those days they couldn’t be members of our
Service fraternity so they started gamma sigma sigma service sorority and so this is my sister’s right here yes i just want you to take look at this is this this is a stadium look at the amount of people who are in the stadium watching these young ladies perform this is the
Attraction to becoming a member of a fraternity it was or sorority this is like the highlight of it doing this show it’s called an extravaganza where you get to just show out oh they’re about to show she said community service is what they do best again that’s a service sorority
Which are the sisters of alpha phi omega i don’t know what happened to my music but it let me get it going here yeah people battery 80 percent connected to galaxy s9 all right so yeah i just wanted to come back and say do talk a little bit more
To kind of show you folks who’ve never been to college and you want to know why people join sororities or fraternities that’s kind of what you see again these are service and social fraternities and they all do good works in the community they’re all good it’s just a matter of preference
One is not better than the other of course when you’re in high school see when you’re in college of course you say your fraternity your sorority is the best thing walking the best things smoking everybody else is trash it’s just like anything else there’s competition about who’s the best but the bottom line
Is joining a service or joining a fraternity or a sorority is a good thing and when you want you join a fraternity or sorority you’re not just in it while you’re in college you are a member of that fraternity or sorority for life for life and wherever you go in life
You will run into people who are part of your fraternity or part of your sorority and if they’re not part of it they may be a a different fraternity or a different sorority but they acknowledge who you are because they know your letters we all know each other a cap on those
Accused letters a q knows that alpha phi omega’s letters a sigma knows an alpha’s letters a zeta phi beta knows a sigma we all know each other’s letters and so once we go on in life have families and children and careers and grandchildren we still wear this proudly
And when we see a fellow member in the street or a fellow member of a different fraternity or sorority we salute them because we know what it took to become a member of a fraternity or a sorority so yeah i just wanted to kind of give you just a little
Just to kind of go over this moment it’s one of the most join the fraternity and as you see the amount of people who come out to watch you to root you on to see you perform it’s a wonderful thing it’s one of the greatest college experiences you can have
And again not everybody who goes to college joins a fraternity or a sorority some people say hell no i’m not letting nobody whoop my ass and that’s okay it’s okay but the bigger picture is that it’s it’s about building character building brotherhood building sisterhood it’s about making young people recognize
That there’s more to the world than their own little lives because you go out in the community and you do service projects you help the homeless you help the less fortunate you helped on christmas and thanksgiving and food drives and catastrophes and so these organizations they’re not there just to have parties
They’re not just there to do step shows and dance and all that that’s just the fun part of it but the bigger part of joining a fraternity or sorority is getting your hands dirty and getting out there and being a productive part of society and doing something for free without
Being told you got to do it it’s about shaping young people’s lives who come from you know high school and mom and daddy doing [ __ ] for them and now they find themselves having to do for other people so all the [ __ ] [ __ ] you hear that so-called
Conscious [ __ ] say why would you be a greek when you’re an african it ain’t about that every greek person who joins a fraternity every greek fraternity they know who they are they know they’re not greek by nationality like everything else in america there’s a big-ass word that some of you conscious negroes have
Never heard i said there’s a big-ass word that some of you conscious [ __ ] have never heard it’s called acculturation what is acculturation it means when two or more different cultures come into contact one another they borrow from one another they borrow some also call it cross cultural borrowing
That’s what happens when you get two or more cultures who come and contact one another and so the greek thing was whites and we adopted it just like black people adopted christianity white folks eurocentric christianity roman catholicism white folks and we borrowed it and we made it ours
And we came up with the african methodist episcopal church ames because we are in a land of other cultures that’s why you got white rappers eminem that’s why they come up with the word culture vulture which is some [ __ ] to some degree it’s [ __ ] but because hip-hop and black folk can
Be ignorant as [ __ ] when they want to they don’t understand a big word like acculturation or cross-cultural borrowing whenever two or more cultures intermingle you’re gonna get a borrowing black folk gonna borrow something from white folks white folk gonna borrow something from black folk that’s the way it is that’s the nature
Of humanity it’s not about black folk wanting to become greeks like we from greece that’s not why we join fraternities and sororities we’ve taken a beautiful thing that white folks created and we made it ours we didn’t just join a white greek fraternity a white greek sorority we created our own black
Greek fraternities and black greek sororities so don’t get it twisted and if anything else if anything else people i’m talking to you conscious negroes who got issues with black greeks black fraternal organizations go back in your mind to being 18 if you can if you’re 30 40 50 60. can you go back
In your mind to being 18. okay step that’s step one step two when you were 18 19 did you go off to college or do you stay in your mama and daddy house and get a job and stay in town if you went off to college then you can understand the mindset of
The young person wanting to belong to something the young person who was hundreds if not thousands of miles away from mama and daddy broke and hungry living in a dormitory eating peanut butter sandwiches after hours because the cafeteria closed you gotta be there for breakfast lunch and dinner and that’s it
If you want a snack you just can’t go in the fridge like you do at home and grab a snack unless you got a little fridge in your dormitory you gotta ask hey i got some peanut butter anybody down there got some bread i’ve been in a dormitory i lived in a
Dormitory for a year i know one person in one dormitory room might have peanut butter down the hall somebody might have bread somebody down there might have jelly we’ll put that [ __ ] together and make a peanut butter jelly sandwich because truly [ __ ] is pro and broke in colleges especially at hbcus
Yeah your mama and daddy and family they’ll send you money here and there but part of the college experience listen to me well part of the college experience living on campus in a dormitory is being broke and being hungry and so fraternity and sorority life becomes a second kind of home a second
Family and then as you saw on the videos all of the camaraderie and festive and fun all the [ __ ] they do along with being community activists being in a fraternity and a sorority is teaching young people about community activism you hung up you hung up on the fact that they
Have greek letters on their chest that’s your concern you you black you ain’t greek shut the [ __ ] up with that [ __ ] being in a college fraternity or sorority is teaching them activism community activism community awareness being and reaching out and looking at things outside of their immediate world
View touching the lives of the less fortunate there’s a method to the madness of being in a college fraternity or sorority it’s not just about fun and games and step shows and extravaganzas and paddling and crossing the burning sands and pulling chicks and looking at hot dudes and
That’s just a fun part of it so i’m gonna close up but i just wanted to bring back and touch on what i didn’t touch on in the first segment hope you enjoyed this video send your kids off to college if you got kids and maybe they’ll join a fraternity
Pick one it doesn’t matter they all represent the good the best of young people alright y’all take care peace
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