Good afternoon welcome to this edition of the for one one talks all radio show my name is Leone Jones today’s topic to talk about our black paternity the sororities still relevant our black fraternities and sororities still relevant my answer is yes they are still relevant but we’re fighting at
Different calls basically from the early 20th century black fraternities and sororities were started with many of them started at Howard University and that’s where the Panhellenic council also started and we’re talking about those four thirties that are in the debye nine it used to be the Elite Eight
Until 1997 when iota Phi Theta which started in Baltimore at Morgan State University in 1963 then our fraternity now we are a large as well I’m a member of Phi 2 cypher tourney now fight acai is not part of the design 9 we’re still trying to get involved with
Nick that’s the North American info return ‘ti or intra fraternity Council the North American interpreter nity Council known as Nick you have to be in one of those conferences if you’re going to have a chapter on campus we were in one of them a long time ago because we
Still have chapters and graduate chapters my fraternity actually started in 1965 at Mott Community College and were the only ones who started at a community college our fraternity turned 50 years old last year and now we have it to where you can put a chapter but it’s all about the paperwork but moving
On back when we were in the Jim Crow era and equality we couldn’t vote or we were three-fifths of a person we couldn’t get into higher education as far as attending white institutions because basically Howard University Morgan University Lincoln University that’s where a number of african-americans went to school and
Don’t forget so many grabblings the Southern’s that’s where we started our fraternities I mean chapters were growing leaps and bounds Virginia Union I went to that school as well but we needed those eternities for protest first for social and community commitments you still need them now but
What’s happening is you have a lower enrollment in HBCUs this is why it may seem that the membership in the black Greek letter organizations has declined but you have these chapters at white schools like Old Dominion Eastern Michigan University so they’re still around but many particularly guys
They’re not going in college and they’re not interested in joining for tourneys and some believe that hazing is still going on although you have fraternities and even sororities who have it in their policy that you can’t haze but there have been people who have actually died being initiated or pledging black Greek
Letter organizations not that haven’t done it in the white organizations but in the black organizations you know you see a line everybody’s dressed to say it’s like military you have to learn a lot about the history but you still need your black Greek letter organizations just like you need HBCUs so
What has to happen is what kind of calls are we fighting for okay but we need to utilize for black fraternities and black sororities let’s start networking and other words okay if you have a fraternity you want members in get them through your website by putting your information on social media
Now they may have because I haven’t checked any of the sites but I could tell you the site that my fraternity has we’re not even on social media so how do people know yeah to market yourself better you have to have something to offer interested membership like smokers
What they expect and then you have to look at how many members you need because if you look at it even a bigger fraternities you have a lot of members but some of the members aren’t paying dues and that’s one of the problems in the black fraternities and sororities
And if you don’t pay dues it’s very hard for your organization to survive and I know dues can be a very expensive commitment to operate your fraternity because if you are in a graduate chapter when you pay your dues for your graduate chapter and you pay national dues and
This is particularly the divine nine fraternities now our dues we don’t have as many chapters and we have one big grand chapter which that governs all of the graduate and undergraduate chapters our dues aren’t is large as the bigger of eternities that that’s because we don’t have the membership that’s
Basically why it looks like black fraternities and sororities aren’t relevant it’s based on membership there is a common cause and regardless what the cause is we still have a lot of black issues that need to be solved and I believe that’s where the black fraternities and black sororities need
To put their focus black on black crime we need to build networking business networks we do also talk about policy voting education because what I do on my channel this is what a fraternity should be doing as well leadership particularly men mentoring leadership development and in building a community now when I say
Building a community you got to build yourself first as an individual but I digress black fraternities and sororities are always gonna be relevant they’re not going anywhere but for them to reach the numbers they have to market themselves better don’t make it look like a person has to buy
Friends because I’ve heard many people say it but why should I join a fraternity or sorority pay my money to buy friends why should I pay money to wear some Greek letters I mean it was a valid points why should I join a fraternity or sorority thinking I’m going to die
Because I’m being hazed well the way to get the members and I’m basically speaking for the fraternities the sororities I’m gonna tell you they’ve always done well the AKS and the deltas it’s because they are fighting for common cause women tend to stick together that’s the good thing I will
Say that to our black sororities if the fraternities would follow that same model we’d be great see black fraternities core they made up off black men and again it goes back to everything that’s on YouTube black men don’t stick together so how can you form any type of
Fraternity or Barney well we don’t have each other’s back and we have all kinds of causes we could be fighting for Policy voting education business black on black crime now too the effort of your my fraternity they are in a community helping the residents of Flint with the water problem and I believe
That the Alpha is the cap is and accuse are as well it also depends on where you are because a lot of your blatant racism took place in the south and this is where you had your HBCUs a large conglomerate of them like your Southern’s your Grambling is your Bethune Cookman
Your Allen College down there in Columbia South Carolina your Savannah States your Virginia unions but moving on like four thirties and sororities have not gone away all you have to do is contact the fraternity or sorority that you’re interested in but you have to be able to answer questions
Though if you remember like if somebody asked me about our fraternity okay we have the information on a website but I have to be knowledgeable enough about my organization to elaborate on what a potential member is asking me and I just believe that you have a number of
Individuals today whole love to feel part of something on the soup in a superficial way like okay the captain is used to be the fraternity for all the light-skinned the pretty boys you had the cues there were the wild ones and you had your brainiacs they were
Your outfits then you had your your partiers in your Sigma’s and then the last returning I’m just talking about the divine nine right now the I Otis they were mainly your non-traditional students who your older students who were the military working but they were going to college didn’t have us
Basically our fraternity which is the sixth largest black fraternity in the country in order to get an ARFF attorney and this was the Creed you had to be in some type of leadership position and this is still what our fraternity looks for and that’s another reason to vote
You can’t attract people in black fraternities and sororities we’re looking for a certain type of person that’s gonna fit the image you know fraternities are all about image – okay reputation and you want to keep that up because that’s what people are looking at well because we can’t find type of
People that we’re looking for we just don’t worry too much about membership but if you want to keep the fraternity running you have to be concerned about membership because you need dues you need initiation fees and all that will come if you have a common
Cause but we also need to be able to put the chapters on campuses so they’d be recognized because right now even the divine nine paternity z’ and sororities whether you’re at HBCU or you’re at a white school and i’m talk about the HBCUs right now you’re not going to see
As many sororities and fraternities at HBCUs because again the enrollment is declined because most of those folks are going into bigger schools so you have to get individuals who are interested in going to the HBCUs in order for them the pledge of fraternity and a sorority and again I’m repeating myself because
Repetition is the mother of all teachings there has to be a cause a real good cause for individuals to join fraternities and sororities and that cause okay we’ve already talked about the racism the any qualities that we had to live through back in the 1900s the
Tens all the way up to the 70s and 80s the civil rights movement now it’s basically policy and just reinforcing what we have gone through back in the days to make sure that is still relevant as well if you look at Jesse Jackson he’s a cute but is he relevant no he
Really isn’t because the issues that we’re finding today aren’t the same as the issues that we were fighting in the 60s so what has happened is or evolving into something different now I believe that we need to start utilizing the fraternities and sororities yes we keep our social context because fraternities are social
Groups you still need that you can keep your eternity z’ and a community you still need that as well but basically you want to get in the workplace and form business alliances that’s where you need to utilize your fraternities and we need to utilize them in a way that we’re
Forming entrepreneurships and if we don’t form entrepreneurships utilize them for scholarships and I believe that is happening but we need to emphasize scholarships more particularly with black men because you have more black women going to college the sororities are still fine they have a smaller decline but there’s always going to be
More women going to school because there’s more programs that women can use to go to school and women are encouraged to go to school whereas men on so what has to happen you need to raise the element of conscious get individuals interested in coming to college and
That’s particularly the men you can put fraternities at community colleges ours is an example my Community College it should be able to do that attorneys but basically we need to start utilizing fraternities and sororities as a way to network with each other and a word or suggestion to all the black fraternities
And sororities utilize social media set up smokers you want to get your numbers up get people interested but let them know that this is not a place where you’re gonna buy friendship you’ll make friends this is not a place that we’re gonna do hazing you’re gonna learn history we’re gonna help you keep
Your grade point average up and that’s another thing when you pledge your grade point average went down there’s a lot of money to go to college and it’s a big commitment and you have to have insurance to not not the pledge but the fraternity has to have insurance and
Insurance there’s a lot of money hazing when that took place that raised the premiums of the insurance so remember to be relevant as a black Greek letter organization have a cost other than what we’ve heard talking about buying friends hazing the taking somebody because they’re light skin or the dark skin you
Have to rise above the superficial mist and then okay we already know the roles of racism we couldn’t vote we couldn’t get into white fraternities and we can go to white schools we know that so let’s evolve and utilizing the black fraternities and the sororities yes for the common causes that we shared
With the social issues but let’s network with the economic issues as well because in order to really be successful you should be able to build your own economy and at the end of the day if we can do that then your organizations will be relevant and individuals will come and
Seek you out just like everything else you have to market yourself and again when I said relevant no fraternities and sororities so I don’t sound like a hypocrite they are relevant but they’re not as relevant as they once were because times have changed and that’s what I mean you would
Have gained your relevance or become an organization or people are gonna seek you out start talking about economics teach people about government and voting that’s what you need to do and doing a little mentorship don’t just talk about it just do it because you have to develop people in order to build people
And that’s what the military does what they do they strip everything down that you had you came in and then they build you back up to their way of thinking so you understand the organization that’s what fraternities need to do and at the end of the day once that happens you
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