Theta Pharaoh
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Your screen name proves my whole point, your fraternity offers nothing new in theory or deed. On your own website, where you have complete control over the content, you go on about nothing of substance. You never talk about specifics that your fraternity founding was necessary for, other than you wanted to be in a fraternity. You talk about "black people learning Knowledge of self" yet where is that knowledge of self on your website? What news updates have you listed? What about the upcomming election? Who are the candidates of interest to the people of the Berkley/Oakland area? What about resources that kids that you want to mentor can use to better themselves in the educational realm? Don't tell me you guys haven't had time to figure that stuff out, you started a whole new "official" fraternity complete with colors, letters, and everything
. You say you have a new vision, where is it? It's not on your website, but you sure had time to post each person's favorite songs and which women they thought were fine?
Give me a break. Normally I am a nice person, but I really feel that we need to start holding our people to a higher standard, and now I am holding you to a higher standard. If you are, as you state, "creators of a new vision and legacy" where is this new vision? Where is this new legacy? You have a whole website and have even created a new thread here in the Delta Ave. in GC and all I see is fluff, no substance. What new light can you bring to bear on issues that affect our community? And, to my point in posting, why is it a fraternity was needed to bring about this new light or vision that you have? What does you fraternity have that is not anywhere in Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, or Iota Phi Theta?
Listen, I do not want to come off as arrogant, because my questions were and still are indeed sincere. If you, brother, have truly found something in your fraternity that has something of new substance to offer the students at Cal and the black community that cannot be or is not in the others, then I applaud your efforts and intiative. But if you just got a little arrogant and thought that no one in any fraternity had a clue about brotherhood and service until you came along and therefore you had to start a whole new fraternity please spare the college and BGLO communities the trouble, because there is already enough shortsightedness and self-centeredness to last a million lifetimes.
And since you are new, let me introduce myself to you, so you know exactly who I am...
" To a few, I am the castle of dreams- ambitious, successful, hopeful dreams.
To many, I am the poetic palace where human feeling is rhymed to celestial motives;
To the great majority, I am the treasury of good fellowship.
In fact, I am the college of friendship; the university of brotherly love; the school for the better making of men.
I AM ALPHA PHI ALPHA!!!!!!
Blackwatch!!!!!!