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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
if you are going to ask the questions of mimicing...then u have to then ask your orginal founders WHY they created their orgs...as another question i am so commonly asked....and I am SURE somewhere along the line ..WHY on GOD'S green earth would a BLACK person join a GREEK LETTERED organization and not an African one.....and yet...it's a valid and fair question. It's not like the 9 did anything different than newer GLO's are doing...they got grief for wanting to do something and for various reasons they didn't find it among what was already present and made the decision to branch out and carve thier own niche....it's like trying to tell someone that there are only 9 things in life you can ever hope to be and out of those 9 you can only truly choose one without giving that person the benefit of saying....well I know that there is more to this world than 9 choices.....just like your founders made the choice to start soemthing of thier own and no matter 'how unique' they are supposed to be, they / we all serve the same purpose....THAT is the bottom line.
The only thing that divides us are our colors and our symbols....take that away and what else are we.....
Bottom Line: Most of us joined our respective organization to in some capacity serve the communites in which we live right?
Last time I checked...I did
And truthfully? Bottom Line?
I could just as easily do without and did it either on my own or as an individual..but as just another gardener out here...nothing gets cultivated without extra hands...questio is...who else's hands do you trust to help you?
Read my quote at the bottom of this page please....define that for yourself because when it comes right dfonw to it, that is how I feel about Greekdom.
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Well, actually, it has been my understanding that Greek life really had its founding in the Free Masons and Phi Beta Kappa.
It terms of mimicing I am referring to the fact that many of these newer groups take all the characteristics that are commonly associated with the D9 like stepping/strolling, hand signs, calls, line names/numbers, symbols, colors - then say, well we are different. I don't mention rituals because I don't know the rituals of these orgs, nor of the others, but it would not surprise me if some of these newer groups 'borrowed' aspects of established groups. I'm just sayin'
I have no problem that these new orgs exist. Great. Maybe we do need more choice. But, at the same time I get the feeling that you feel compelled to explain why your org exists. As long as you do you, then you won't find yourself on a message board asking why you and others made the choice (other than the D9) that you did.