One of these I’ve been saying in the messages uprising in this moment where we are confronting racism and police terrorism and that our protests must function at the level of our principles and alpha values we can’t we can’t throw away what we believe just cuz we man it
Has to show up and how we fight because how you how you fight will determines how you enjoy your victory um in my role no you’re not wrong we have to stand by our principles that’s what’s really very important because no matter what is going on you have to stay true to
Yourself and you have to know the principles and we stand on principles for organization as well as our own principles but the principles of the organization are a very basic scholarship find a womanhood service and sisterhood and those are what we stand on because we are a sisterhood that we
We keep we keep each other going but yet we have to think about the service because we have service to the community and that’s where when these things are happening what are we doing as an organization to help to be out there to be on the front line what can we do that
We’re servicing our community and of course scholarship because as as you know we really need to make sure that our young people are suitably educated right that’s something that’s very important to us rights very proud I swear I’m gonna get to all the great things you’re doing with autism and all
The great things you doing times I promise you we’ll get there but I gotta just one more question on this I wanna I want to make a claim and you tell me if you agree I think one of the things that makes sororities and fraternities so unique in our culture and black culture
Is that the bond is created not just by the pledging experience while that’s certainly true but it’s also your bond is created by the fact that you’re organized around certain clear principles and values that you articulate to each other over and over again and your membership your
Participation a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated it cannot be a part of you if she does not know those principles if she is not a if she does not buy into those now and I think that’s that’s a part of what makes black culture largely speaking
That’s part of what we got wrong we don’t do what sororities and fraternities do we don’t constantly remind each other this is what we believe this is what we valued these are our principles I think if we did that unity and and not uniformity but unity
Would be much easier to achieve I get that right that that is absolutely correct dr. Shawn because you have to walk in your truth you have to understand those over no we go home you said enough you know you you have to understand what your principles if you
Don’t have principles you you don’t have anything you have to believe in something you have to know where it is that you want to do and that’s why it’s so engrained in these type of organizations because we have principles and it’s like we go over it as a mantra
Every day this is service this is scholarship this is this is sisterhood this is fine a woman and we drill that and we drill it down because we want our members to go out and reflect that that others can see that because we as black people have to be together we can’t be
Apart fighting each other we need to be together we need to come together so we got to show that we gotta walk it we gotta walk in archery you can lick luggage a lady yes I hear yeah I know that you
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