Okay Okay, we've completely gotten off the subject. Let's talk:
So I'm guessing you never seen a Step Show other than that which was sponsored by a NHPC Group. Is that correct. Because California doesn't have very many black colleges. I'm not sure of any. I'm thinking that you are come that coast. If that's the case your unacceptance of our 20 plus years of stepping makes sense. Because just from logic, being in a predominately white organization and having been a stepping group since the beginning of stepping (50's 60's)
Let me give some links of photos of some step show history of my frat.
http://w3.one.net/~sdarden/apopics/frat1.jpg
http://APQGSS.tripod.com/ZZweek/ZZweek07.JPG
http://members.tripod.com/~CookoutWe.../2000cwo26.jpg
I've been married for 12 years.
I was not reverting to physical violence. I said slap on some ears like Mr. Potato Head.
I do not need validation to step. This is the point that I've been trying to convey, but it's not getting through to you. I've been stating like I have always questioned. When you have a contest letting not just us, any non-NPHC Group step in the show not in the show but as guest steppers, (I'm not going to say exhibition anymore). Now some of the other people on this board, I believe think that we would have a show and invite other NPHC groups just so we can make more money. I have to be directly honest with that when I say the making money objective was not an idea of mine. No, just merely squashing barriers. Because they exist. And there existence I have to say is due to not being aware of us. This is okay and understandable. Personally, I don't mind waiting. I expect several hundred of Alpha Phi Omega and Gamma Sigma Sigma at the our 9th Annual Cookout Weekend in Atlanta. I'll be talking photographs so you guys can see them. During that weekend we should have about 7 to 9 chapters stepping. No, the '25/'52 doesn't need validation. Because it exist in a family all it's own. This not isn't just for you AKA_monet. It's for anybody who doesn't know who we are. I think that our exchanges has been profitable. Profitable in that it's giving me a chance to highlight my organization and the element within. It doesn't matter who argees with it. The fact that we exist is all that matters. Small? Maybe as a family. But Alpha Phi Omega is the largest fraternity in the world. And Delta Sigma Theta is the largest sorority in the world. However that doesn't matter one bit. It's the people who makes the organization they represent.
So if you think that I've insulted your organization my insulting you then I apologize to your organization. I'm not even about that. I'm just carrying a flag. A flag that says "I'm in a fraternity that is meant to help young men." And yes we've made some modifications of the past. And yes it was accepted by our groups within our society. Belittle the act if you would like, it doesn't mean any to me. Because there is many individuals in this family. And they're lives are intertwine into it. So if there is a situation where the 25/52 family can represent, they will be available to those individuals that are opened to it. If not, such is life. We carry on.
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