T momy a Mom mommy Good evening everyone good evening habari gani so when I say habari gani y’all say coochi Chia you ready all right thank you thank you everyone so much for coming out this evening today we celebrate the second Quanza principal Hui chakala Hui chakala translated to mean self-determination requires us to Define
Ourselves name ourselves create for ourselves and speak for ourselves my name is patri Williams and I am the chairwoman for this year’s quaza celebration whether you are joining us in person watching us vir virally or will watch the recorded program at a later date the women of the El Paso
Alumni chapter of Delta Sigma data sorority Incorporated are happy that you are able to join us for this evening celebration I would first like to bring your attention to the back of our program as I be extremely remiss if I do not recognize pay homage and show
Respect to my chairwoman for the past two years the late Mrs Allison Jennings a few times a week I ask myself ww mad what would Mrs Ally do and I think about today as I was running around Gathering things last minute I called and I text our vice president in
Frustration and said this is stuff that Miss Ali supposed to be doing this is the stuff that Miss Ally will make sure that I will have done I’d like to recognize Miss Allison’s daughter Whitney who is in attendance tonight right here in the front accompanied by her [Laughter]
Husband I only I typically only speak for myself but this evening I want to restate what you already know Whitney your mother was loved by everyone in El Paso and especially the El Paso alumni chapter and we miss her dearly I miss her dearly I would like to say thank you
For sharing her with us and for allowing me to have special memories with your mother for those who do not know I have my oldest son ezani who is here in attendance and I recently gave birth to triplets and it was Miss Ally who said that she wouldn’t mind to be my nanny
For me now when I asked her to do it full time there was some words but at the end of the words it was a no but miss Ally was ready she was so excited and I’m just so hurt that she wasn’t able to meet them before they were
Born so may we all please take a moment of silence to hold space for Mrs Ally as she will be standing right here beside me today if she were able and quite honestly I choose to believe that she is here with us in spirit so we could please take a moment
Of 30 seconds to hold space for Miss Ally the co-chair of the El Paso alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Quanza committee for 2022 and 2023 for thank you and participating in Our Moment In Our Moment of Silence and honoring Mrs Asen Jennings I will now ask those who feel
Comfortable to participate in an ancestor recognition ceremony where we will call the names of our ancestors those who are no longer with us after you say your ANC ‘s name I will pour water onto the plant and then we will all say a a is a urable word that represents
Affirmation agreement life force or Life Energy the power to create which you speak and the statement of it shall be so it somewhat closes the recognition after you state your ancestors Nam so you don’t have to raise hands you just shout out U your ancestor names you
Could do more than one person if you like and then we will do the ceremony phlips so after each name then we’ll do the A and then the next person will go thank you excuse I want to make sure I heard Miss Kathleen a a Alex Flint Virginia Hopson AA Lee Robinson Miranda
Becket th andan a new James Helen a Vincent Flynn Patricia Strickland H David Stark S A lucenda Carter a Henry Hub sterland Carl Robinson Ruth and Alison nor Amora cut doberry odal Beasley Ronald White yes sir Bessie thank You thank you everyone I would now like to welcome our awesome president miss treia suer to do our welcome wonderful to see all these faces here tonight greetings to the board of the McCall neighborhood center and thank you for hosting this annual celebration that is K Quanza your constant support
Facilitation and dedication further exposes the El Paso Community to the celebration of Quanza I would like to welcome and thank all of the members of the D9 organizations for their attendance welcome to the other attendees and guests who have come to celebrate to the members of Delta sigmaa
Sorority Incorporated thank you so much for your preparation attendance and participation the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sor Incorporated have prepared a wonderful program centered on the essential principle that is kui chalia my name is treia Suter and I am president of the El Paso alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority
Incorporated please welcome our chaplain Miss Vivian a Simmons as she opens our program in prayer good evening good Evening this evening’s prayer is an interactive prayer uh I will say the first part and I will be praying from uh Psalm 136 and it begins oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good and your heart is for his Mercy endure forever for his Mercy endure forever oh give thanks unto
God our God for hisc end forever oh give thanks to the Lord of lords for his Mercy endes forever to him who alone is Great and Mighty for Mercy end forever to him that is wise and who created the Earth and heavens for his Mercy end forever to him that stretches
Out the Earth above the waters for his Mercy end forever him that made great lights Mercy endes forever the sun to rule by day for forever the moon and stars to rule by Night forever let us bow our heads you are merciful and awesome you are an
Amazing God and for that we give you praise and glory as we come this evening to celebrate self-determination we leave and we honor you as being the head of Our Lives we ask Lord God that you would continue pouring out your blessings on each person here we know that you are our
Great and Mighty Creator we stand in all of your goodness for as the Psalms say your mercy endure forever and ever and ever in the mighty mous name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we say amen amen amen amen thank you next on our program we will have the
Singing of lift every voice and sing it’s the insert in your program and as is our custom we will sing all verses followed by the candle liting ceremony by drri Will yes please Stand every and sing till Earth and Heaven ring with the of let ouring Sing Sing facing the rising Us Victory Thead the in the days our will to the for Father we have come Tears The God of our God tears th Th us us forever in the we pray from the places God Dr World may we forever stand true to our god true to Our thank you M I will now light the candle that represents cooi chakala before I light the candle I would like to state that the Muma Samba which are the candles are to be placed the red candles to the left of the Black Candle and the green candles to the
Right and I say that as you are standing in front of it so the red to the left and the green to the right of the Black Candle and I also want to bring to everyone’s attention that online there are several pictures gies illustrations
On how to uh light the candle but a lot of those are incorrect and so we the El pasel alumni chapter we’re going to show y’all how it’s done as as as the other organizations are so when lighting the candles you always start with the Black Candle and then you
Light up until it’s your day and the candles remain lit throughout your ceremony whether you’re doing a ceremony at home or at an event those candles stay lit okay so the the candle the Black Candle represents em MOA Unity is already lit as that day was celebrated yesterday and Quanza always begins on
The 26th the day after Christmas so when lighting the candles you move from right to left from inside out a lot of pictures again online have it going from outside in however you start from inside out going from Red excuse me going from red to green with the black already Lit so I like the first red candle to represent Coogi chakala Self-determination and then the next day would be uima Collective work and responsibility followed by uama Cooperative economics and then you go back over to Nia purpose Kua creativity I’m sorry I skipped uima you do Aima and then you go to Kua Kua and then you go to NE let me
Start over Okay so you start with the Black Candle and then you begin on the inside with cooi chakala from there you go to uima and then you go over to uama and then niia Kumba and purpose but for today excuse me Imani and then but for today would you chocol
Is the only one but now I will welcome back up our president Quanza an African-American and panafrican holiday was created in 1966 by Dr mulana Kinga professor and chair of Africana studies at California State University Long Beach Dr Kanga stresses that indispensable need to preserve continually Revitalize and promote African-American culture Quanza derived from the phrase matunda Yak Quanza is Swahili for first fruits
Quanza is a cultural holiday that is celebrated by persons of African descent based on the rich ancient and common ground of their africanness Quanza is the seven day cultural Festival that begins on December 26th and ends on January 1st during the holiday individuals families and communities organize activities
Around the hos SAA the seven principles K Quanza is often celebrated with feasts music dance poetry education and a date dedicated to the reflection and recommitment to the seven principles and other Central cultural values was created out out of the philosophy of qua which is a cultural nationalist philosophy that argues that
The key challenges in black people’s lives is the challenge of culture and that what Africans must do is to discover and bring forth the best of their culture both ancient and current and use it as a foundation to bring into being models of Human Excellence and possibilities to enrich and expand our
Lives it is important to to know that while Quanza is a celebration for persons of African descent all people regardless of origin and ethnicity are welcome to participate in the celebration Quanza like other African first fruit celebrations is organized around five fundamental activities and they are the
End Gathering of people a harvesting of the people bringing together of the most valuable fruit and product of the nation this of course is the human heart special reverence for the Creator and the creation a Thanksgiving for the good in life for life itself for love for friendships for family for community and
For culture commemoration of the past honoring the moral obligation to remember and praise those on Whose shoulders we stand to raise and praise the names of those who gave their lives that we might live Fuller and more meaningful ones recommitment to our highest ideals a time to focus on thought and practice
Of our highest cultural vision and values which in essence are ethical values values of the good life truth justice Sisterhood Brotherhood and an overall respect for the human person celebration of the good celebration of the good in life Community culture friendships the bountifulness of the earth The Wonder of
The universe the elders the young the human person in general our history and our struggle for Liberation Quanza was created to introduced and reinforce seven basic values of African culture which contribute to building and reinforcing Community among African American people as well as Africans throughout the world
These values are called Theos which in Swahili mean the seven principles these principles stand at the heart of the origin and meaning of Quanza the celebration of Quanza lasts seven days so there are seven principles and we went over there just a few minutes ago but they are umoja which is Unity
Kuji chagala self-determination uima Collective work and responsibility uama Cooperative economics Nia purpose Kumba creativity imman Faith Quanza has seven basic symbols and two supplemental ones each represents values and Concepts reflective of African culture and contributive to the community building and reinforcement the maso the crops are symbolic of the African
Harvest and celebrations and the rewards of productive and Collective labor the Mika the mat symbolic of our tradition and history and the foundation on which we build the canara the candle holder symbolic of Our Roots our parent people the Continental Africans the mahindi the corn symbolic of our children and the future which
They represent the Muma saaba the seven candles symbolic of the guus Saba the seven principles they represent a minimum set of values which black people are urged to live by in order to rescue and reconstruct their lives in their own image and according to their own needs Kimi chaum moja the utility the
Unity cup symbolic of the foundational principle and practice of unity which makes all else possible the Z the gifts symbolic of the labor and love of parents and the commitments made and kept by the children and the two supplemental symbols are the Bandera the flag the colors of the Quanza
Flag are black red and green black for the people red for their struggle and green for the future and hope that comes from their struggle it is based on the colors given by The Honorable Marcus Garvey as national colors for African people throughout the world the second supplemental principle is the
Guus SAA poster and so I have a picture of one here and you all were given um a sheet as you were walking in which is also a go of sa and really the poster kind of shows the seven PR the seven principles and the foundation okay let’s give a gift we’re
Going to give a gift to uh that individual that can tell us what the color of the African flag mean yes what what it means what you just said Yes red is for the blood yes black is for the skin yes people that’s correct that’s correct
Green is for the land red is for our blood the struggle that’s right and black is for the people the greetings during Quanza are in swah and they are to reinforce awareness of the commitment to the seven principles the greeting which we went over today already abari gani so let’s
See if you remember abari gani man you guys are are fast Learners you quit quit thank you I will be followed by Miss Deborah Harris who will now present us with a poem entitled Rosa Parks by Miss Nikki [Applause] Giani thank you and good evening evenes so I’m going to read you a
PO by Nikki Giovani Rosa Parks AP pars this is for the Pullman Porters who organized when people said they couldn’t and carried the Pittsburgh carrier and the Chicago Defender to the black Americans in the South so that they would know they were not alone so but who were the port the Pullman
Porters they were overworked underpaid and demeaned but generations of Porters on the Pullman Palace car company help promote the rights and futures of African-Americans I found the Pullman Porters to be fascinating self-determined and they made a big difference in the lives of many Americans just a few years after the
Civil War the Chicago businessman George Pullman began hiring thousands of African-American men including many former slaves to serve white passengers traveling across the country on his company’s luxury railroad sleeping car he wanted to hire the black men because he knew they had been trained in the
White families how to be servants and he felt that they would do a good job being servants on the on the trains they were underpaid they were overworked and they endured great racism on their job the pulman porters would eventually help to fuel the Great Migration they help to shape the New
Black middle class and launch the Civil Rights Movement in 1959 as the railroads were expanding their reach Across America pulman convinced the Chicago Alton and St Louis railro to let him convert just two passenger cars into new and improved sleepers these were comfortable luxurious sleeping cars that were in instant hit affording the
Wealthy of passengers the amenities they were accustomed to and allowed the middle class travelers to enjoy a taste of good life the first Pullman Porters began working aboard sleeper cars they eventually moved up in their jobs and took jobs on in hotels and restaurants so that they became uh middle class pull
Them they were highly respected by other black people in the community because their jobs paid more and they were not out in the fields and they were able to grab some dignity and cl last for themselves as a result their children moved on and their family members moved
On to higher paid jobs even though the pay was not that great it was great for the African-Americans working as a Poorman became a coveted job even a career and many brothers and Sons followed in their footsteps and eventually they took better jobs and the Pullman were able to
Pay for their children to go to college and those children who went to college were able to build the middle club for African-Americans the PO by Nikki Giovani is dedicated to the Pullman who organized when people said they couldn’t and carried as I said the Pittsburgh carrier Courier and the Chicago Defender
To the black Americans in the South so they would know they were not alone this is the Pullman Porters who helped their Good Marshall go south and come back North to fight the fight that resulted in Brown versus Board of Education because even though Kansas is West and though toeka is the birthplace
Of gwendelyn Brooks who wrote the powerful the Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock it was the Poland Porters who whispered in the traveling men both the blues men and the race men so that they both could know they were not going would know what was going on
So they passed that Along by Whispering from the porters to the people who were on the plane and not planes on the chains um this is for the Pullman Porters who Smiles is as if they were happy and laugh like they were tickled when some folks were around and who silently rejoiced in
1954 when the Supreme Court announced 90 a 9 it’s 90 decision that separate it’s inherently unequal this is for the Pullman Porters who smiled and welcomed a 14-year-old boy onto their train in 1955 they noticed his slight limp that he tried to disguise with a dwop walk they noticed his Strutter and probably
Understood why his mother wanted him out of Chicago during the summer when school was out 14-year-old black boys with Lim and stutters were AP to try to prove themselves in dangerous ways when mothers weren’t looking so this is for the Pullman Porters who looked after that 14-year-old while the train rolled the
Reverse on the blues highway from Chicago to St Louis to Memphis to Mississippi this is for the men who kept him safe and if imtil had been able to stay on a train all summer he would have maybe grown a bit of a poch certainly lost his hair probably had worn bif
Focals and bounced his grandchildren on his knee telling them about his summer riding the rails but he had to get off the train and ended up in Money Mississippi and was horribly brutally inexcusably and unaccepted murdered this is where the pool Porters who when the sheriff was trying to get
The body buried secretly buried got emt’s body off the Northbound train got his body home to Chicago where his mother said I want the world to see what they did to my boy and this is for all the mothers who cried and this is for all the people who said never
Again and this is about Rosa Parks whose feet were not so tired it had been after all an ordinary day until the bus driver gave her the opportunity to make history this is about Mrs Rosa Parks from tus Alabama who was also the field Secretary of the
NAACP this is about the moment Rosa Park shouldered her cross put her worldly Goods aside was willing to sacrifice her life so that young men in Money Mississippi who had been so well protected by Pullman Porters would not have died in vain when Mrs Park said no a passionate
Movement was begun no longer would there be a Reliance on the law there was a higher law when Mrs Parks brought that light to her to expose the evil of the system the sun came out and rested on her shoulders bringing the Heat and the light of Truth others would follow Mrs
Parks four young men in Greensboro North Carolina would also say no great voices would be raised singing the Praises of God and exhorting us to forgive those who trespass against us but it was the Pullman Porters who safely got in a till to his Grand uncle and it was Miss
Rosart who could stand could not stand that death and is not being able to stand it she sat back down [Applause] thank and next I would like to introduce our vice president Lisa Buie to introduce our speaker and Lisa buoy is coming forward just not make an announcement there’s a gold
For SUV that let the lights on license plate GSP 8062 GSP 8062 it’s a gold four yeah I don’t know Mine okay um we’d like to give a gift uh to the eldest person here uh so let’s start off uh 70 year olds if you’re if you’re 70 and and up just go ahead and throw your hand up all right I see a lot of you because I know you go
Ahead say go ahead and uh and and and embrace it 75 okay 75 year old thank you we have the eldest person in the room at 75 how you doing ma’ and and now again for the youngest person in the room that’s you all right all right uh
The youngest person do we have any any children right here okay so eani is the youngest and so he’s at the restroom so when he comes back we’ll give him a gift and then the two uh kids as soon as they come back they also get a gift why
Not and now I’ll introduce uh our vice president Lisa buy okay okay thank you thank you thank you good evening everyone so nice to see all of your beautiful faces um I am here to introduce our keynote speaker uh Dr Antoinette Howard Dr an anet e Howard is a visiting
Assistant uh professor in the school of teacher preparation Administration and Leadership at New Mexico State University and an ad ad faculty lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso she received her doctor of education and educational leadership and administration from New Mexico State University her masters of education in
Educational diagnostician from the University of Texas at El Paso and her Bachelor of Arts in Speech Pathology from Gremlin State University okay she has been an educator working in the El Paso Community for over 31 years holding various positions in the sakuro and El Paso Independent School District that
Include Elementary Middle School special education teacher educational diagnostician Middle High School cheer coach High School assistant principal and director of C curriculum and instruction for special education she is a member of the baddest okay it didn’t I got back I’m back I’m back I’m back okay
Okay she is a member of the Lely chapter Delta sigmaa s Incorporated where she has served in various leadership position and participated in numerous community service projects supporting and assisting the Youth of El Paso through learning opportunities and scholarships as well as working to ensure better OPP opportunities for the
El Paso Community in addition to her numerous work and Community Endeavors she is the proud mother of a 21 28-year-old daughter Sierra and a six-year-old Jack Russell Terrier named Aries in her spare time she enjoys attending concerts sporting events traveling reading and spending time with her family and friends without without
Further Ado we’d like to welcome [Applause] Dr thank you for that wonderful introduction and good evening everyone this evening we are going to reflect on the second principal kuoi chakala self-determination on this day we should pledge to Def Define ourselves name ourselves create for ourselves and speak for
Ourselves who we are directly relates to who we become we are encouraged to be proud of who we are and to know our identity this can be expressed by both commitment and practice the red candle symbolizes the efforts made by a person a family a school or a community and
Reinforces the value of work and effort as a people of African descent we are reminded that we Define defend and develop ourselves and we do not allow or encourage others to do it for us this requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own
Image and interest and it is a call to recover and speak our own special cultural truth to the world and make our own unique contribution to the forward flow of History the First Act of a free people is to shape its World in its own image and interests and it is a statement
About their conception of self and commitment to this self-determination the principle of self-determination carries within it the assumption that we have both the right and responsibility to exist as a people and make our own unique contributions in our human history it reminds us of the fact that African people introduced and
Developed some of the basic disciplines of human knowledge astronomy geometry literature math medicine ethics Advanced architecture and on and on and it urges us as a people not to surrender our historical and cultural identity to fit into the culture of another openness to exchange of course is a given but it
Presupposes that one has kept enough of their own culture to engage in this exchange rather rather than follow another’s lead the principle and practice of self-determination expresses and supports the concept and practice of afrocentricity afrocentricity is a quality of thought and practice which is rooted in the cultural image and human
Interest of African people afrocentricity as explained by em M Shante in 1987 does not seek to deny or deform others history and Humanity but to affirm rescue and reconstruct its own after the Holocaust of enslavement and various other forms of Oppression we have experienced as a people afrocentricity as its cultural best is
An ongoing quest for historical and cultural anger a foundation on which we raise our cultural future ground our cultural production and measure the authenticity and value moreover afrocentricity is an ongoing critical reconstruction directed toward restoring lost and missing parts of our historical self formation and the development as a
People it is furthermore a self-conscious posing of the African experience both classical and general and as an instructive and useful Paradigm for human Liberation and a higher level of human rights afrocentricity as the core and fundamental quality of our self-determination reaffirms our rights and responsibilities to continue to exist as
A people to speak our own special truths about the world and to make our own contributions to the forward flow of human history to do the opposite is immoral to do less is dishonorable and ultimately self-destructive who are you this is sometimes a hard question to answer are
We showing our true selves to the world we are sometimes afraid and we self- sabotage ourselves when we have thoughts in our minds and things in our hearts that we want to share we allow fear to pull us back ways we can practice kuoi chakala includes saying no to the things
That we do not suit or support our community doing something that brings you Joy or deciding to do the one thing that fear has been keeping you from achieving what are you doing for self-care you can’t give your best if you’re not at your best right it doesn’t
Matter what you’ve been through where you are or where you wish hope or want to go applying the principles of kuji chakala exercising self-determination gives you the purpose to change we must continue to hold our heads High each and every one of us matter and we we should not give up our
Power in order to continue to make an impact in this world we will now reflect on defining our identities and will participate in the call to action being conducted by Miss Menda [Applause] seal good afternoon good afternoon oh we got to try this again so my portion I
Request participation right so if you participate I can get off this stage right so I’m going say again good afternoon that’s what I’m talking about okay so I am filled with so much joy and gain more knowledge based off of what Dr Howard has displayed by giving us a grand
Explanation when we look at coochie coo coochie CH coochie Chia you know I’m not the only one that can say this right I practice I promise I practice I practice um makuch chakala um is translated to mean selfdetermination it demands that we as africanamerican people Define defend and develop ourselves
Instead of allowing or encouraging others to do so and so as we call to recover and speak on our own special culture Tru culture truths quana states that each person must ask him or herself these three basic questions who am I am I really who I
Am am I all I ought to be I’m gonna say this again right I just got chill who and am I am I really who I am am I all I ought to be all right now here comes the participation for those who want to share and answer those three questions
Maybe one two or even three I ask you to volunteer but you also can explain a way that you want to exempli selfdetermination and your plans to see it through moving forward after tonight so now I’m going to look in the a if I get three people I’m
Successful so I mean I don’t want to you know do the hey will you help me out here I will walk to you and say give you some help so can I get a one volunteer to go first I don’t want you to have to do it okay what are the questions
Who Am I who am I that’s easy right I am um I am first a believer of God I am my mother’s daughter um I am a wife I am a mother and I am a Delta right right but at heart I’m a good person I think
Um yeah at my heart I’m I’m a good person I agree thank you okay what’s the next question oh you ask all three okay um am I really who I am that’s not my question can I get a volunteer yes ma’am thank you so question am I really who I am are you
True to yourself do you display that characteristic of who you think you are from the root I believe that I am Um uh I try to be a nice person I try to be a good person I try to do to others as I want done to me yes to myself um I try to look out for those that can’t do for themselves H am I there are times that I am a
Butthole and I know it I try to suppress that person there are times when she does come out um she ask for witness that knowing myself so I I do know these things and I can try to better so yes thank you thank you for your
Honesty okay the last one well no this is the second to last one am I all I ought to be are you giving your all on a daily basis if not what are you going to do to change that so you put a follow question in it that well because I helps
Explain the root right it’s the basis Am I all I ought to be um no um nobody’s more critical than yourself you know to make go that real um that you can try to make sure or iy to make sure I don’t put what people want me to Beary I would say no certain go I a I want to
My doing things like that I’m I’m proud of where I came from I graduated high school [Applause] I like certain gos there are gos we say if I knew myself 20 years I myself make right that talk I thank God I’m thank [Applause] you this is the final one how are you
Exemplifying self-determination and what are your plans to see it for what are how are you exemplifying selfdetermination and how do you plan to continue from for thank you so how are you going to exemplify self-determination which is the root of the theme so and kind of a different take on what
My brother said is is is I am a product of my ancestors I am a product of their struggle I’m a product of their success I’m a prodct of their proud ancestors how do I how do I self-determination I carry what they gave me that allowed me to be here I
Carry that Spirit of success accomplishment To you know you know you run that race you know you run that marath and I have picked up Theon of my ancestors and that is my determination to carry and pass to my next wow thank you so I just want to say thank you very much for your personal experiences and
That you were able to share it within this room I know some of the things that you said personally touched me so I can only assume that it touched many others in here and I really thank you for your generality while you displayed and was
Open to us here um from now we will go into our closing ceremony not not just yet not yet okay the Pres I just keep interrupting everyone but thank you so much um we’re going to do some wrapping that everybody’s okay with that you be like oh okay
Fine so um if you can pull out your tickets I don’t have is there anyone who doesn’t have a tiet that needs onebody you let the husband draw first 1429 1429 1429 1429 1429 1429 all right okay two numbers that’s fine raise your hand High all right 1436
1436 these star to win I like this 4 1436 wining I Like 1431 now okay do we have those are all the adult gifts so so now I think we have four or five children’s gifts so if you have a child at home or somebody loves that’s under the age of 10 let us know so we can give you
A gift and you can take back to that job by the rules to all right I think that’s that all right I think that’s it okay so yeah thank you thank you everyone and now we like to bring up Miss Mari and Bennett for our closing
Ceremony y cut out that CL it’s almost I’m almost done I don’t really have a speech but I I do want to thank everybody for coming out it’s hard to get out during the week U especially me I don’t drive at night I would suggest all y’all get out of that parking
Lot before I go I cannot be responsible right now to follow somebody at home okay um thank you to uh everybody that participated today I I learned a lot I got a chance to remember some things about where we came from and who did
What they did for us to get where we are let let us all remember to vote when it’s time to vote they’re try to take us back to some of these stories that were told here today they want us to relive some of these things uh in order for us
Not to do that because it’ll be an out andout war between the races before we would be shot and hung and everything and nobody said anything but it’s going to be a little bit different this time but we don’t want it to come to that so we’re going to do our part uh
Want to thank uh patri what a wonderful job she Did to thank um all the Soros of Dela Sigma Theta and everybody that came out I I especially wna want to say I love you Whitney you and your husband I I I just we’re going to talk about why we weren’t invited to the wedding
Right but no she she’s a good sport and she’s not married but but um we want that to go out to the listening ears no somebody somebody s s told me to say that say that but but thank you all for for coming out and um uh Delta Sigma Theta sorority Incorporated
We were glad to do this night I hope that we’ll participate for the rest of it because you know we’re good at showing up at the beginning but we might fade in the end I’m not speaking about myself because I’m always there but I know the rest of these
Sisters now I might need some help I’m going to put out the it’s time for us to extinguish the candle I look at you that means I don’t know I’m GNA put that b pandle out first and the custom uh s Patrice told us to that there are certain things that they follow it says to put them out with your fingers I don’t think that’s going to happen here
Today that’s not probably be get close to it as I can watch my hand don’t watch my lips okay so and then I’m GNA put out U the black handle which is Unity uh can you tell us husband [Applause] thank you so much okay again thank thank thank everyone uh
So much for coming out and uh we do hope that you learned something and and um what s Bennett said was key and that is uh we need to definitely rock this boat we definitely need to rock this yes yes um so everybody that you know make sure
You take someone to the polls take them to the polls call them up remind them um that we need to get out so next we have um our nourishment and so we’d like to ask our chaplain to come up so that she can bless the food Please father God we thank you for this marvelous time together we thank you for um what our ears have heard we thank you for our hearts have received and so as we transition to the next part of the uh ceremony we ask that you would BL bless
The food for the nourishment of our bodies we adore you we thank you so much for all you have done to us continue blessing us throughout this evening in the mighty name of Jesus we pray amen Amen [Laughter] that call Action was way too you looking at me saying what you want me to say I
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