I see your point Doggy....
but if BLGO's ain't business, why are they incorporated? If it isn't a business, why do they have lawyers to protect their interest and have copyright laws and things of that nature? Now the concept of Omega, the ideals of Omega ARE NOT a business, nor is it for sale. I agree with you there. Omega Psi Phi is a brotherhood, unfortunately, all the members don't practice it...and it's because of them that Omega, and the other BGLOs, have turned into a business. Just ask that white lawyer in MD who makes a living suing greeks...it's big business to him.
I did not mean to imply that Omega was founded to be a business. I am saying that it has turned into one because of the laws on hazing and the lawsuits and new procedures put in place to try and "remedy" the situation.
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Membership is screwed up because we have become schizophrenic in our effort to please a hostile master instead of being true to ourselves. Because we have focused so much on what outsiders think of us (the press, lawyers, haters, white folks) we have compromised our way of life to satisfy others. When you do that, you lose your focus. Now we are businesses that look at memebership as revenue, not brothers or sisters.
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Regardless of the circumstances that got us to where we are, in order for the survival of our organizations, we have to attract new members, and re-activate the current members. We are working with a new set of rules, therefore, we must incorporate those rules into the recruitment of propspectives. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying that's the way it is. And until we put the action in motion to change it and are successful, that is the hand we're dealt. We can fold, or play through. I'm staying in the game.
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