Yesterday, I was talking to someone and they asked me why i wanted to pledge Omega. I started talking about how I really examined the organization and believed in everything that the organization stood for. I did not pledge because I wanted to party or hop or for popularity reasons. i pledged because i respected an Organization that tried to give young black males a political voice and a network so they could prosper. I saw a fraternity founded on unifying the black community and uplifting our people when it was unsafe for black people to walk down the street at night.
She then repeated the question like my answer was complete bullsh*t. It bothered me to point that i began to realize that she had a reason to not believe me. It is because a lot of greeks (my org and others) do not represent their organization as it was meant to by our founders. It seems the whole craze is with stepshows, partywalks, and parties and we have forgot about the important things. The sad thing is we are making greeks who want to join for the forementioned things. Which is one of problems with Intake. What good is it to make 80 people on a line when only 12-13 really want to work to make the organization better. I would would rather have 5 men loyal to one cause than 50 who barely even care. How can you call yourself someone's linesister or linebrother and you don't even know their name. BGLOs have become a joke compared to the 30's or 40's when we really worked to make a difference. There are so many t-shirt wearers out there that it is a shame. What happened to major political moves like the deltas marching for suffrage or frats refusing to do business with discriminatory businesses. People used to look at greeks as powerful, honorable, and unified. Now, people see frats as something to go see during blackgreek week or the homecoming stepshow. This goes hand and hand with continous downfall of the black race. We have to get back to the important stuff, things that greek life is really based on.
The Carter G. Woodson's, Martin Luther King's, W.E.B. Duobis's and Johnny Cochran's of our prospective organization's are **** and gone. Our Jesse Jackson's and company are getting old.. Who twenty years from now will be our ambassadors. The day we depend on rappers and athletes to identify our organizations is a sad day.
say what u want
still doesn't excuse the fact that
you damn near got expelled for fighting and being niggerly
yet wanna make a topic talking about quality Black men?
you're a JOKE
no one is taking u serious
or your WACK org
go lick your balls or something
you lost
say what u want
still doesn't excuse the fact that
you damn near got expelled for fighting and being niggerly
yet wanna make a topic talking about quality Black men?
you're a JOKE
no one is taking u serious
or your WACK org
go lick your balls or something
you lost
Shut up. You're wrong yet again. In fact you're always wrong. Why? I haven't ever seen you post ANYTHING intelligent. EVER.
say what u want
still doesn't excuse the fact that
you damn near got expelled for fighting and being niggerly
yet wanna make a topic talking about quality Black men?
you're a JOKE
no one is taking u serious
or your WACK org
go lick your balls or something
you lost
say what u want
still doesn't excuse the fact that
you damn near got expelled for fighting and being niggerly
yet wanna make a topic talking about quality Black men?
you're a JOKE
no one is taking u serious
or your WACK org
go lick your balls or something
you lost
read up on the post dumbnuts..... get off the cpu and find some hobbies...
"Wise man once told never argue with fools, because people from a distance can't tell who is who"
I havent been around in a minute but I did read up on this topic before posting a reply and I definitely feel where you're coming from team. I've had this same conversation with older bruhs and members of different fraternities and asked them what they felt the difference between today's greeks as opposed to the greeks back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's and they each say pretty much the same thing about how the times have changed and that we're not really in touch with our communities and issues that concern us. We as young blacks have this microwave mentality of right now, instant gratification, that we don't persevere to see something through to the end. Yea we go to the marches but once the march is over are we following up on the issues are we making sure that something is resolved? We don't. There are still societal issues that we can address and have a major impact on but we overlook those. I agree with laidback about how if we fulfill our Nationally Mandated Programs, we would make enough of an impact. But at the same time, if we don't follow through with them once we've built the house, reclaimed a few bruhs/sorors, gave out some scholarship money, what have we really done? I think we make things look good on the surface but neglect the things that go on underneath. Just my QUE-cents.
I think you hit the nail on the head and I agree completely. What you said not only applies to BGLOs but young blacks in general.
