Non AKAs and para
 

I wanted to know have any of my Sorors ever come in contact with any persons wearing para that was not an AKA? I am not talking about perps but people who are in possession of AKA nailia by some means or other. Well, today I had my first experience and I must say I am sick to my stomach. I was parking my car and saw an older white lady walking in the parking lot and I was like, cool. So, I quickly parked my car and caught up with the lady and asked her was she an AKA. She gave me this strange look and my heart dropped. I pointed to the letters across her chest and she looked down at them and said, "oh, no I'm not an AKA. This belonged to my son's girlfriend and she left it when she moved." I was stunned as she walked away. After coming half way out of shock, I yelled to her that she could at least take the letters AKA off her chest since she was not one.

Please Sorors don't leave your para; don't donate your para; cut it, burn it, or bury it if you don't want it anymore. I don't even let anyone hold my umbrella in the rain.LOL I GOT THAT!

Soror I have not had this happen to me as far as AKA is concerned, but I did see a man once walking down the street in a Zeta Phi Beta tee shirt http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif! Now we all know he was not a Zeta. I told my aunt who is a Zeta about it and she was livid.

I know this is real!
One of my students grabbed AT mine, I turned around and gave him THAT LOOK, and that was all she wrote! lol

Even my boyfriend knows, that is off limits...I know chivalry is NOT DEAD, but if the big P&G is up, then, I GOT THAT! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Ok sorors I have a little story. A couple a years ago a soror in my chapter decided that she had no need for some of her nalia that instead of giving it to some sorors, she threw them away. Why disregarded those items are beyond me, but she felt that they were old. Anyway a week later, we saw a foreign exchange student sporting her nalia. Well of course that didn't sit well with us. So one of my sorors chased the girl down and confiscated the nalia. Luckily she explained to the girl the reasons why she took the bag from her. Also just last week at work I spotted a girl wearing an Iota Phi Theta sweatshirt. I don't know if it was her boyfriends but she should have been ashamed of herself.

Hi Sorors,

I've been missing you guys. Check this out! My line sisters and I were celebrating our bithday. Someone suggested that we go to this club that people had been talking about in another city. Anyway, we went, and I could not believe my eyes. Picture this! A step show was taking place. One group had on pink and green tee-shirts with AKA across the front, another had red and white with DST across the front, another with blue and white with Zeta Phi Beta across the front. They were stepping, skee weeing, ooooping, kitty catting or what whatever they say. I just couldn't believe it. They were even throwing the pinky. Yes, the pinky. I was livid. I stood up and said no way. My ls's and to sit me down. Sorors, sorors, sorors these were not women. Shhhhh They were men. The men who were supposed to have representing us said "1908 not 13 we were the first in history. I almost passed out. I was so mad we had to leave. Some of my line sisters thought that it was funny, but I did not. That was a few years ago. Now, when I look back on it all I can say is umph, umph, umph,

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You are the master of your own destiny!

I don't know if I have ever posted this story here, if so I apologize in advance for the repetition. But, my sister is an elementary school teacher at a school where the principal is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,Inc. Anyway, one day this little boy, the school "bad *ss", came to class wearing, you guessed it, an Alpha Kappa Alpha shirt http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif ! My sister called up the principal and informed her that she was sending the little boy to the office. Needless to say the little guy returned to class wearing a different shirt.

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I'm not conceited, just convinced.

I don't like it when I'm looking at a greek catalog and I see someone modeling nalia for more than one organization. You can't always if the average joe on the street wearing nalia is or isn't greek. You can tell though if someone is not greek if on one page they have Kappa gear and the next Alpha gear. How hard is it to find people of those orgs. to model their nalia?

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SPR 97
XI LAMBDA

Not hard at all, but they are probably woring about the $$$ and not respecting people's organizations. Besides, the were praobably asking themselves why pay 9 people to model when you can just pay 2...one man and one woman.

Kinda reminds me of when I was watching an old episode of "A Different World" and there was young woman wearing a Delta Sigma Theta sweatshirt in the background. My friend who was watching with me (DST SPR96) asked, "You think she's really my soror??"

It's sad that she even had to ask.

Then also, you would have to wonder if these people are actually AUTHORIZED VENDORS... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif

I ONLY tend to patronize those folks who are AUTHORIZED to sell OUR 'NALIA!

Now, that Diff'rent World thing...I don't know. I WOULD HOPE THAT THOSE "EXTRAS" WERE MEMBERS OF THE RESPECTIVE ORGANIZATION.

Remember that step show on NEW YORK UNDERCOVER? Were those REALLY Sorors and Kappas, etc? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif

I saw this topic and just had to ask:

Does anyone know why I'm suddenly seeing Guatemalan guys (probably recent immigrants) all around Georgia wearing new and crisp AKA shirts in pink and green?

[This message has been edited by carnation (edited January 07, 2001).]

you know for a FACT that they are CRISP AND NEW?

who knows why or how these immigrants (if they are) got those shirts...

maybe a para truck turned over on the interstate along side the highway and they went for it! LOL http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif

BTW, why would ANY MAN wear PINK? LOL
I have seen a couple, but that's ANOTHER THREAD! LOL

[This message has been edited by AKA2D '91 (edited January 07, 2001).]

Sorors, this happened to my chapter while I was a junior in '92 -- a young lady wore an AKA shirt. She took it from her sister. Now, we knew the girl wasn't a soror b/c we were at a small Historically Black college! One of my line sisters challenged her and she just looked.

Anyway, after being harrassed, she left. After talking to our graduate advisor about the situation (who told us she would have snatched the shirt off the girl), she informed us that most greek organizations have only a patent on their shield -- and not the letters themselves.

So what do you think...personally, I still don't think that's right for them to wear our letters!

Soror Happy Days
1991 Beta Upsilon

hey ladeez...

many times the reason these people get these clothes is because they buy them from the salvation army or they receive them from individuals, who don't pay attention...

i remember volunteering to pick up unwanted clothes and spying letters of various organizations in the bags. respectively, i take them out and give them to their rightfully owners.

i do remember one time i saw this homeless man wearing a very omega t-shirt. one of the bruhs on my campus went and gave him us own shirt of his back and took the one he was wearing. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif


ps....

what do you think of the shirts that say:

my mom/sister/aunt/cousin is a DELTA/AKA/SGRho/ZETA?

MaMaBuddha
imagine a subway filled with fallen angelz....

I gave my eldest niece a "My Aunt is an AKA" t-shir and gave my mom a "My Daughter is an AKA" t-shirt I bought at a regional. My mom wore hers around the house, but my niece loved hers. Unfortunately, she grew out of it and passed it on to her younger sister.

[This message has been edited by AKAtude (edited January 08, 2001).]

Lemme ask yall something: I see Black Greek 'nalia being sold in thrift stores in my town in the "redneck" neighborhoods. What would you do if you saw a 6ft 6 mean lookin' "redneck" type woman wearing AKA letters. Yall know the type I'm talkin' about. The ones who would rather fight than cook and if you say the wrong thing to them, they would knock you out. (I grew up in one of those neighborhoods and I saw them all the time). What would yall do then?