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Old 02-17-2006, 09:48 PM
AKA_Monet AKA_Monet is offline
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Wink Don't let me make this a Howard vs Morehouse thang

I don't know about all of this stuff on Howard's campus. The whole concept still looks shady to me and it has more to do with money than it has to do with brotherhood... In fact it reeks with filthy money.

I asked my husband, a bonafide Morehouse man, as was his father and his brother, about a predominantly, historical caucasian fraternity colonizing (still interesting terminology here) the Morehouse campus and he basically found it laughable and discredited it.

Now my husband is the biggest GDI I have ever seen. He hates all GLO's on a college campus and he sees no reason to have alumni chapters. Forget the fact he married me, a fully above ground pledged member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., from Spelman College, a legacy and her father, as well as her grandfather were men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Moreover having an uncle, a cousin and godfather who is very famous, members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. So my indoctrination was in my blood. But my husband very much thinks he has the Morehouse Man Mystique. And that is how they educated the men of Morehouse versus say, Howard ...

But hey, what can you say about the school that educated Martin Luther King Jr. et al., and the kind of education they want the young African American men to have?

Either way, it will be interesting...

As far as my alma mater, Spelman, I can foresee a MCGLO or even a NPC sorority coming on my campus. I do not see either large organizations joining Clark Atlanta University's campus... I don't know? But I think the Rockafeller's may engender a NPC sorority becoming a part of my campus. Would folks at my school be pissed off? Probably some. However, the history of Spelman was those old caucasian ladies that were the presidents in the late 19th, early 20th centuries did not want any kind of sorority on the campus for a long time until they allowed Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Eta Kappa chapter to be chartered--I think it was 1953? (Sorry DST ladies, you cannot pledge me now... )

I think the issue for some folks is that many of the "Alpha chapters" (the first chapters) for most of the D9 organizations were founded on Howard's campus. That is what is making some folks upset...

But folks will join what they think they identify with and whatever floats their boat... Hope they find happiness and joy with their own conclusions.
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