[Blueknowledge]

Yes, I pledged so-called “hard.” And yes, I get “respect” and “dap” and all of these other imaginary things we give to each other.

The fact that all BGLOs have to employ an army of lawyers in order to keep us solvent says something about how far we’ve drifted from the founders’ original missions. The fact that we can rationalize violence/hazing says something about us. Today, we hang on to a socially constructed behavioral norm as if God wrote it in the Bible. How many nations have been destroyed and faded from the earth because its members worshipped its so-called interpretation of “tradition”?

Surely if we are going to pay so much value to the founders, then let us return to our original mission. Let us be the avant-garde for African Americans and all others across the globe. Surely, with our “traditions”, what unquestionable stake do we have to the claim of being civic leaders?

Blueknowledge