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Originally posted by Blackwatch
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. IS the first Black Greek Lettered organization founded by college men for college men. Sigma Pi Phi is a Society founded for like-minded professional Black men for the express purpose of uniting professional black men to fellowship together after they have made a certain level of sucess in the professional/career world . Lawrence Graham in Our Kind of People talks more about this. I have read more articles from the source of your quote and I can say that his arguements are baseless and illogical. He talks about Bro. WEB DuBois desiring not to have a back to Afrika movement, he died in Ghana in exile because of his radical views! The Boule' is mentioned nowhere in The History of Alpha Phi Alpha : A Development in College Life as having anything to do with the founding of the fraternity and in Graham's book, nothing is mentioned about a connection between the two, other than many men of Alpha are also in the Boule'. The source of this article is basically a conspiracy theorist who makes systematic appeals to oppression almost comical with the unfounded claims he makes. I do not deny for a second that there are systematic intricacies that characterize the oppression of all black people, but there are logical, factual things that can be shown to prove this (inadequte education, lack of healthcare, disproportionate incarceration, etc.), rather than wild, unsubstantiated claims that trivialize the oppression of our people. So to sum up, CHECK YOUR SOURCES before you accept the claims. Bro. Herman "Skip" Mason has a great article on his website talking about this http://skipmason.com/hm/hm19.htm
Blackwatch!!!!!

I ENJOYED reading that! Welcome, welcome, welcome to GC!

I have never heard that particular myth put so firmly in it's place!