Relax push it down this is how good you guys were hey darling this is how good you guys were eight dollars what’s going on YouTube Happy Halloween today we have a new segment called be on code we’re going to do some movie reviews today we got a special movie for
You it’s called hazing it’s produced by Byron hurt and it’s on the PBS network man the movie is very controversial imma let y’all see for yourselves and then we can talk and have a discussion about it y’all can leave some comments down below so look we’re going to roll into the
Trailer right now and then we’re going to roll to the full clip that I want to have a discussion about and then the my segment is focused around the exploitation of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated in this movie so y’all stay tuned check this out I love being in a Greek letter
Organization it’s a Vibrant Community buff membership can come at a heavy cost we were taking well over a hundred Strokes per night push-ups like chug until you throw up it’s peer pressure and its broadest form I didn’t want to let my blood sisters down you never you never belong it’s our silence that’s
An act of betrayal but that all ends now all right we’re gonna get into the full clip no matter how negative it is to feel it to feel part of the organization I want to experience that truth the thing my brother told me when I told
Him that I was interested in becoming a member was you’ll be fine dad went through it I went through it you’ll be okay as long as you ain’t no [ __ ] ass he said it like a joke but I can’t lie like that was in the
Back of my mind but then when you you know when you’re going through this process you know and you’re sitting there like you know I don’t want to drive because I don’t want people to think that’s me oh when Greek life is a family tradition the desire and pressure to experience
The place process is even greater it was for Brent the son of a Kappa Doing all right I’m going to maintain it in this world of pain yeah So me being a legacy holding on that crown that my father was a Kappa you know me being a Kappa and that’s something I’ve been wanting since I was about five years old now this picture right here you can see I was always surrounded by cappers in my home always
I had a group of young men that I was pledging to be countless at the same time she was pledging AKA we were both active in our fraternity and our sorority we’re a Greek family and it was like welcoming another great my son into the Greek family I was excited when
I made line I felt amazing I felt great you know I was like man this is it my daddy was right before me and that ain’t no turning I turned me back that’s not funny I we’ve been online for three hours it’s gonna be online for three hours
With the old we’re sworn in I threw up everything I got beat like a slave today you know what I’m saying it’s ridiculous that’s how the new generation exposes negativity of sets and any type of hazing or pledge process let’s get back into the movie one two the road to cap the legs Tell us about the house that we’re approaching right now this is the house I always Haze that every night which house that one right there it’s the same thing yeah I’ll try to make what you tell me that first night we were supposed to be doing this whole
Little ritual our Dean was like all that tonight you gonna get some wood because you’re gonna be the strongest line ever you’re gonna get wood every night so we’re like oh okay so this is what it’s supposed to be like okay first time I took wood
Now you see that scar on his lower back right there right I mean come on if these brothers can’t see this and they still continue to to deal with this guy knowing that he had some type of surgery to his back I hope he told him too seems like he didn’t tell him
Because the way that he plays this plays out it sounds real Shady all right let’s get back into the clip it was a traumatic experience for me you all right don’t fall don’t don’t fall dude I had a prior back surgery so when they swung I mean I felt it like
Electric shock just shot up from my butt to my back I’m all I’m crying over there I’m tearing up because it hurts like hell one of the things about our contemporary situation is That’s the older brothers and sisters have been removed from the process because of the risk associated
With legality on a national level are organizations basically turn a blind eye I don’t catch you we will not actually eradicate underground pleasure which leaves young people who are untrained leading these things that take a lot of organization you end up with a chapter full of men or women who only think they
Can prove is they can take an ass whooping because we need to make sure we had some like a photo book you know to make sure we can sit back and go through this is what you went through yes how good you guys were the validation
Part right yeah so you can relive the fat because the whole point of it is supposed to be you have a memory that suddenly changes once this is ridiculous I mean that the the director right there in the ball head Bryant Byron heard would allow to put these clips
In the inside oh this is ridiculous man there’s so much hate some of these other fraternities have for Kappa Alpha Psi and for brothers in the fraternity this is ridiculous he should never expose that let’s go back to the clip initiate it someone else watching this I
Can guarantee you is going to look at this and say I’ve taken worse yeah I see how that out of context could look brutal and I’m not out here advocating that people should go through that um what I would say is that people should go through something when I go through
The heart in my life when I’m struggling the most I look back and say because I went through this I can do that I’ve said the same thing if something very difficult a challenge comes more I say I pledge right but did I really need to go through that in order to
Have get to the place where I have uh stamina and perseverance in my life and that’s the question Drop that’s a real sure you know my friends [Applause] what I just watched was a historical echo of a a long history of pain and brutality and dehumanization of black bodies except in this particular context the Masters are the men holding the paddles for black people that’s the cultural specificity of this the type of ritualistic violence that we saw in
Slave plantations did not exist in West African cultures so this is where this tradition of hazing begins it has its roots here now for all hazing when you look at early hazing in the United States in the 1800s it all was physical they used to have something called freshman and
Sophomore class rushes where the sophomores chased a freshman around and beat them down at Indiana University they had a case where they actually scalped the young man they took a knife and cut the hair from his head with a knife that was all physical it was violent so in the 1920s the institution
Said we got to stop this hazing a freshman and that’s when you start to see it evolve into fraternities of sororities and then since then you started to see the predominantly white groups really gravitate toward alcohol the historically black groups when they started to develop those organizations they continued the original American
Tradition of hazing which is still very physical and he continued to evolve I really think it has to do with Society for example we’ve had hazing deaths and fraternities going back to 1873 but we didn’t have an alcohol death until 1940 at the University of Missouri when you
Look at the deaths in African-American groups you think it goes back in history but it doesn’t the first death in a bglo was in 1977 the organization was my own and the cause of death was a heart attack after repeated beatings and I have absolutely talked to brothers
Who plays like you know back in the day they said I played in the 30s I plays in the 40s it just wasn’t the same I don’t hear things about paddling these are things that kind of picked up in the 60s and 70s and I think it came out of the
GI bill you had mature non-traditional students who were coming into our organizations who were introducing these things that they had picked up in the military and I think this stuff intensified post Vietnam War we became a lot more violence Society alcohol became the litmus test for young
People it was glamorized and so it was added to the ritual since Vietnam hundreds of Marines may have gone through it there’s this internalized belief that pain makes us stronger to tell these stories that we’ve survived to go back and reminisce on it to laugh about it to say we got through this
It’s a form of trauma bonding I’m like we all set out in Boston I hung out with some of my older gamma chapter brothers ogs who plays in the 1970s we talked about the significance of this type of nail bonding pleasure in the 70s was a really rigorous experience but the one thing
That bonded us all around the world is everybody went through that same rigorous experience and the real value to me of that whole thing particularly in the 70s you went anywhere in the world sport your colors and you were treated as family it would have the best in me it really did [Laughter]
And they did they the real name to get the best out of me because I had to admit man at some point during that time I was a slacker man but guess what those four o’clock I think I thank God for that process thank God for making supper but but we
Understand things must change because it’s a different breed it’s a different breed of people it’s a different uh uh college student it’s a different world yeah I definitely agree on that these kids nowadays are real coddled everybody gets a trophy it’s more just for the fashion show the select you know so on
Campus celebrity stuff the love for it is just totally different from when they had shows like a different world and all these other shows that were promoted uh you know black fraternities and sororities all right let’s go back to the clip and the things that we went through were necessary at that time
As Much Madness or whatever it is but this is the end result of the good brothers that came through that sorry I got out of the ride of Correction you know so so has it gone too far I think some of the stuff that’s going on nowadays has gone absolutely too far you
Know it’s to the point where borderline is being sadistic am I proponent of that no I’m not I really am not so there’s really like a thin line between uh training a child and the way you should go and brutality thank you sir there was a point when I was like you
Know what I’m tired of this I mean my my ass is dark blood purple and so me and my brothers we did a boycott we didn’t go to session one night so the next night we go back to session and they beat I mean they beat the hell
Out of us the next night hey that’s gonna fly two on the bus see that scar right there on his back come on man you gotta have some questions about that scar those dudes should since day one should have you know put a piece of tape X on him or something to
Signify that he’s damaged goods actually he shouldn’t even been there get out the way you’re a hundred Right now [Applause] a couple of times the paddle hit me in my back actually shattered my disc and when my disc was shattered actually had fragments in my disc in my back and the effect that it caused was traumatic Can I say one more thing yeah sure I struggle with this myself and I think what scares me in addition to because I because I asked myself how is it that I have far more advanced and Progressive conceptions of masculinity around love and relationships around Sports around education around all these other areas
But why is this thing the thing where I see I tend to have contradiction and I think part of it is that deep down I’m probably afraid that at the end of the day I did all that for nothing that none of it mattered none of it
Meant anything you know that I went through all of that and did all of that for something that doesn’t I don’t know about that one Lamont um I I know what you’re trying to say good brother but that that ain’t it let’s get back to the clip The Code of Silence in Greek them I would compare to the Code of Silence among police officers you loyal to your brothers you loyal to the organization first and foremost and if you are not then you know it goes back to kind of the street ethic of snitches get stitches It gets real real fast you all right don’t fall don’t fall dude I crossed I’m a member after all that I still believed in trying to be a Capper even when I was in the hospital doctors in there saying what happened oh it’s rough sex you know
That’s what I was saying you know trying to cover it up this went on for days so I demand it I said Brent be honest please do that for me because who’s going to be there to take care of you I said was it related to Kappa Alpha Psi
And he said yes and then I informed the nurse who then they called the police see that’s crazy there’s other ways we can handle this without going to the police in the house you know all that craziness but it shows it seems like it was a
Setup plot for money like hey I’m gonna go through this process and then I’m gonna play victim and then go ahead and Sue uh the fraternity I don’t know let’s roll the tape man once I told the police what happened to me it was like okay that’s it you a snitch
You’re relegated to a type of social death within the organizations and there are many members who will reject you you’re not going to be able to go to the parties that you pledge to be a part when we cross Fresno was having a party that night they said don’t come to the
Party because you’re gonna get wrecked my biggest hour I have man I try to commit suicide why did you want to take your own life it’s tired paralyzed from the waist down left leg messed up erectile dysfunction back is all messed up I was just too overwhelming for me
And it wasn’t that I tried it was no trying Byron I’ll tell you that right now it wasn’t no trying with me I actually I put the bullet in the chamber in the chamber and I pulled that trigger when that bullet jammed in the gun that’s when I finally realized okay
Maybe I’m here for a reason Brent filed a lawsuit against Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity for his injuries and settled out of court for two million dollars you see what I’m saying he settled out of court for two million dollars and look at look at they didn’t even put no
Type of the non-disclosure agreement on him uh giving out those video clips to to Brian hurt for this movie I mean he got off with the bag and he exploited the fraternity um based on him getting injured this this is some shady conspiracy man I mean that’s just my thoughts but you know
Y’all y’all let me know in the comments the national headquarters banned new membership in that chapter for seven years Cal State Bakersfield was not held responsible for any wrongdoing but you’ll think powerful clip right
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