[marquise1911]

Recently on my campus there have been t-shirts dawned by several AKAs and Alphas stating, "I'm your father/mother and you will respect me." Now I pride myself in knowing my history and knowing it well. No where in any recording has there ever been any implication that Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha were father/mother organizations. Maybe the first born child, but never the originator of black Greek letter organizations. The Masons and Eastern Stars on our campus are furious, because father/mother has always been a title we as the D9 gave to them. What I want to know is:

1. Are these bogus claims common?

2. Do they hold any weight, or as they might say in the south "any water"?