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Interesting topic..... wish I had been around when the bulk of the posting was taking place.
Well, have a seat and get comfortable....I got a lot on my mind:
First I have a question....
Does ANYBODY, ANYBODY AT ALL, know someone who has said, "Yeah, I'm a paper soror/frat."??? I haven't been in the frat for long, just under two years, but I have never heard anyone from any organization admit to it. MIP has been in place for over ten years now, yet there is not one paper frat or soror to be found. YEAH RIGHT! If I struck a cord with you, don't lie about your process...that's one sure way to be thought of as suspect, amongst other things. Bruhs like to call it cat....
Secondly, I pledged at a grad chapter. Now my pledge experience was much different from an undergrad's. I was pledged by people who had wives, kids, bills, and jobs to be concerned about. Their scope of responsibility extended far beyond going to class and spending the rest of their time "making lines." HOWEVER, it wasn't easy. I can promise you that I was "in the process" longer than 98% of folks. I didn't have the advantage of line brothers to sustain me because they all quit, and I was the only one to cross. Blood, sweat, and tears??? I know them very well. But as soon as people hear grad chapter...they think paper. And I am an adamant proponent of the fact that the two are not synomous. (easy bruh...stop venting...)
Lastly, I can't speak for any other org, but as I was always taught, "It's easier to become a bruh, than it is to be a bruh." If you came in paper, you're not home free..... by the definition of hazing, you can't haze a member, only a prosepective. So what are you gonna do once you're in, and the heat gets turned up? If you pledged, you'll know what to do, if not....then you'll learn.
I road-tripped two days after I crossed...a thousand miles away from my chapter, and I went alone......no brand, no financial card...just me and my process..... IT GOT HOT...It was supposed to, I was a neo. BUT at the end of the night, bruhs were buying me drinks at a club and setting me out. LIKE THEY SHOULD! If it were a "weekend-wonder" in my shoes that night????? Five words for ya...the Cardinal Principle of UPLIFT.
The moral of the story is.... if you long to be a real and true member of your organization, then become one. Regardless of how you are brought in, the hardest part isn't the way you came in, but what you do once you're in. And real members of your organization will teach you all you need to know to be a contributing element and build bridges of your own. BUT, it won't be easy.... and it ain't supposed to be. Anything worth having is worth some inconvenience and work. And if you don't agree.... don't come to Omega, nor any other of the orgs in the NPHC, because workers is what we all need, not folks who take the easy route in all they do.
enough of my rambling......
ROOOOOOOO
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