[The Original Ape]

Dayum Fatto! You always beat me to the keys! You said it best bruh!

Puttin' aside subjective feelings for each organization, Yall got to understand the sacrifices made by The Founders of Alpha. As with everybody else's founders, our founders took much care into defining our membership, our purpose(s), and everything else about us. They were extremely concerned with the plight of African-American men, who were perceived by the wider society AND OUR GOVERNMENT as the most dangerous population on American soil. The government suspected our Fraternity as being communist and rebel-rousers; and they monitored the movement of our founders for years. Due to the timeliness of the founding of Alpha, and the purpose of Alpha, I personally disagreed with the integration of my fraternity. And I personally cannot accept homosexuals into my fraternity. We were founded on the principles of MANHOOD, as one of my bruhs so eloquently put it; and that has NOTHING TO DO WITH HOMOSEXUALITY.

I wish the best for all men. I would hope that homosexual men and white men seeking fraternity life would have the where-with-all to start their own fraternity. And I would wish them the best.

But Alpha Phi Alpha was THE FIRST for African-American men ONLY; and due to its historical value to our people, I think it shoulda been exempt from all of the intergration laws, etc.