Welcome back. This morning we have some SDSU Sigma brothers here to tell us all about their fraternity, their culture, the importance of being in San Diego 5 Beta Sigma founded at Howard University Way back in 1914. The SDSU Chapter Charter 1979, so they’ve been going strong ever since.
We have Amari Jackson joining us and a couple other sigmas that we’re going to talk to. Good morning to you. Thank you for being here. Of course. Good morning. How are you doing? I’m doing good. Good. So let’s talk about that. What’s it like for you, Amari? To be a Sigma man
Is great. Just being able to work in the community just full time. It’s great. Just being able to do the work, meeting with my brothers like on a daily basis, practicing for performances, everything like that. I love it. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. That’s awesome.
I love your love for it and we want to share that with San Diego. Tell me your name. Day so tell me for you what’s your favorite part about being a Sigma? My favorite part about being a Sigma is the culture and the love you have on campus.
Love we give out to people on our campus, to the black community, and I love they show us. I was a real strong culture and it’s a great time and your name. Jaylyn so yeah, what do you love about it? Why did you want to become part of this group?
I do love that all of us as a collective, we all do whole like leadership positions like on campus. And we definitely learn how to learn how to give back to the community and why that was also part of the reason why I wanted to be Sigma is
To help give back to the king me, and be able to do what we need to do in the community to make sure that we uplift our community as a whole. That’s amazing. That’s a huge part of what you do, right? So Amari wanted to start with this question, the common misconceptions
About fraternities we know, people talk about. That’s a lot. Especially SU. Unfortunately they made a lot of headlines. So what are some things that you want to dispel? Ohh, I think I’d want to dispel that. Just some of the fraternity culture stereotypes, like all we do is throw
Parties and just have a good time. But we represent our motto. Culture for service. Service for humanity. That’s what we represent. Also. Principles being brotherhood, scholarship and service. We tried exhibit these qualities across all aspects of what we do. Those are very important. Qualities. That’s great that you’re sharing
And you guys are at the college level and this will go on through the rest of your life, right. This is part of who you are and we’re looking at some video here. Tell us about your performances. Man, ohh yeah. So we have a what we call a yard show.
OK. In the fall, it’s right around Homecoming season, our homecoming football game. So yeah, we spent, we spent a couple months perfecting some steps and strolls and this was our most recent yard. So Cal Coast Open air theater, like I said, yeah, it took a couple months to perfect.
Yeah, this semester we’ve got a lot of performances going on with it being Black History Month. We’ve been going to different schools, just different places around Socal, just asking us to perform. And we like to be out. That’s a, that’s a term we use. So our chapter is definitely out. So yeah,
We’ve been doing a lot of performances, kind of got a tour called, we call it Showtime signal, Showtime Sigma. Thank you for showing us that because that’s really cool, you guys. In that video, I’m assuming, yeah, all three of you were doing those, those moves. Yeah. I mean, why is that important?
Tell us about that. To just be out like you said, showing what you can do, man. It actually has a long history. Stepping and strolling. Yeah, it has a long history, long lineage weave, really. It kind of just shows a bunch of our culture. Like when we do these performances,
It gets a lot of people engaged in what we’re doing. Just the type of movements, the beats and sounds and things. It’s really fun to do. Brings us together too. It’s like, it’s almost like playing sports really. Like all the practice that it takes to go into it, right.
Yeah, it’s like being an athlete almost. Yeah, it sure is. I mean, I saw how you were moving. That’s definitely, yeah, be limber at least, and learning the choreography and all of that. Obviously, we’ve talked about the beginning. You originated at an HB CU, being at SDSU, being able to share your black
Culture with campus and beyond. Why is that so important for you to be able to do, man? It’s it’s incredible being at a PWI. And being black, it’s like we are the minority there, but being able to you know be together and have our blackness, it doesn’t really feel like
We’re a minority being on campus. So it’s it’s very important. I love it feels it feels like I’m at home within my fraternity group. Were you worried about that? I’m curious for both of you guys just starting at SDSU. Was that a big important part of all this?
I mean you don’t want to feel like a minority anytime you start a new chapter in your life, right? Ohh yeah it was a very big. For me, growing up, the grouping of black community, our family, I was, it was always a big part of me, my blackness and going to college,
I was kind of worried like that I would, I would lose part of that. But you know, this fraternity and then my community overall on campus has really kept that alive in me. And I really take the school for having a good diversity when it comes
To culture. And I mean, to be able to obviously represent your culture, I think is a big deal for any culture. Wherever you come from. Do you feel that it’s embraced on campus? I definitely would say so. Yeah definitely. It’s been, it’s been more embraced over the years progressively continue to do so.
So I definitely say yeah. And then like with different things like performances and seeing what everyone being able to see what we can do, it’s definitely been able to put us on a better light and be able to see what we actually do. Yeah, I’m curious. That’s a good response you gave
Right there because I want to know how I can watch you where can people come check you out? Ohh yeah you could follow us on Instagram. That’s the best place to check us out. SDSU sigmas on Instagram. Yeah, we’d be. We’d post a lot of videos, a lot of content on the stories,
Main posts, things like that. I love. And the performances. Yeah, performance. Yeah, the performances are there. Is there a an event you guys are putting on soon that we can come out to, to support you? Of course. OK. We have an annual event called. To put you on the spot,
No, I always, I always make some of my work. No, not to stroll up. I’m talking about PB and J for the homeless, OK? Where we basically what we do is we come, we buy a bunch of supplies, food supplies, water sandwiches, PB and J obviously. And we get up, come on campus
And our black Resource Center, put together the sandwiches, invite the community to come out and then we go to different couple of locations, we go to downtown San Diego, just kind of look around. Less fortunate the homeless people and pass out the waters and the sandwiches and things like that
Wonderful work you’re doing. We are out of time. I wish I could talk to you for way longer, but thank you for joining us this morning. So nice to meet all of you. Thanks for what you’re doing for San Diego and we’ll be right back after this break.
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