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Originally posted by the411
Merci beaucoup, Soror Ladygreek!
And yes, it HAS gotten out of hand. Perfect example of what the whole topic is about (petty differences).  For that, I truly apologize. I won't take up any more space with my long-winded, verbose testimonies and refuttals. I'm sorry for getting so emotional, but for me this does topic just hits home. Still, I adore my Sorority and I admire, respect, AND value ALL of my Delta Sorors. In my eyes and heart, NO Soror deserves anything less from me. 
And I'm Out!!!
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Although you are so vehement about one part of your post, Coleman love. I will beg to differ with you on this point.
It is all well and good to point to Sorors Giddings book, provide the definition of "history" and explain how the Omega Founders or anyone "helped" Delta find her way. I feel that until is is RESEARCHED, and included in our DELTA SIGMA THETA history that we are taught during our process, and our PROTOCOL calls for us to embrace the Omegas as our CONSTITUTIONALLY-BOUND BROTHER ORGNIZATION, I will not embrace it. And it will continue to bastardize our history as our Founders saw it and how it is. Yes, Soror Giddings did write a VERSION of our history, and yes, some Delta "eyes" at our National Headquarters may have viewed it, but as I am sure you are well aware, Soror Giddings 1st Amendment right to free speech would preclude any censorship of its content, and that would not have been the call of other Sorors to edit her book. So simply because the version you choose to embrace appears there, does not make it the gospel with regard to who "helped" Delta "find her way" if at all.
And moreover the "help" you describe is cursory at best at this point. Anyone can tell someone where to find a document or what building to go to on campus to accomplish a goal. But I struggle to believe that without that direction, Delta would not have been founded or flourished to what she is today.
Since you feel so strongly and you choose to differentiate between Official History, Legend and Fact, I would challenge you to research the issue, produce the facts and present it in sisterly love to your sorors of the National Executive Board and the Scholarship and Standards committee for inclusion in any future versions of our official history, until then it will remain LEGEND AND AN UNOFFICIAL TRADITION in my eyes and in OUR HISTORY. The only fact as I see it presently is that a Delta Founder married an Omega Founder.
Furthermore, I strongly disagree with your charaterization of me. Simply because I refuse to perpetrate a LEGEND OR UNOFFICIAL TRADITION as our history DOES NOT MEAN that I am a hyper-sensitive feminist that finds NO VALUE IN MEN. To say that is way off base in my eyes and is not true with respect to me, and in my perception to our sorority. You CHOOSE to embrace the "bond" and our PROTOCOL AND HISTORY have helped me to CHOOSE not to embrace it. Therefore, we agree to disagree and move on. I am not posting to change anyone's mind, just to give you my position based on the facts as they have been taught to me. Simply because we are engaged in a debate, does not mean that we are being petty or bickering, we are simply DISAGREEING, Soror, that is all. I LOVE AS RESPECT YOU AND ALL OF MY SORORS.
I don't believe that any organization that has an entire Summit dedicated to raising African-American boys into upstanding men would find no value in them at all.
Finally, I have been in your shoes (and probably worse) financially once I left my full-time job to attend law school, yet I budgeted for my COMMITTMENT to DELTA SIGMA THETA, and I would challenge all Sorors to do the same. Believe me it was VERY DIFFICULT, but somehow I managed to remain financial since the day I crossed. Everyone's situation is different, and I believe I mentioned that I didn't direct my comments to your situation.
But the fact of the matter is MANY SORORS use the COST to stay financial as a crutch to remain inactive, while they CHOOSE TO SPEND THEIR MONEY IN OTHER WAYS. We all have choices, and the right to make them, I'm simply saying at some point there should be a decision to COMMIT to being FINANCIAL AND ACTIVE in a chapter.