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Originally posted by ladygreek
Since the word soror means sister, A Service Sorority can be roughly translated to a service sisterhood. What we are is a sisterhood, and what we do is community service, all within the legal infrastructure of a nonprofit corporation (business.) I don't see anything schizophrenic about that.
I am also curious as to how you define a good "bruh" if being a financial, active contributor to the brotherhood is not an important qualification?
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Thanks for your input, but the schizophrenia that I was referring to was not that. Delta Sigma Theta is a perfect model for what it does and what it attempts to do. But if you were to judge Delta or any other BLGO on its most pressing issues, most of it would center on the sisterhood/brotherhood aspect from which most problems emanate (relations between Grad/UG, Intake, Pledging/Hazing, Real vs. Paper, the resulting lawsuits, Ghosts/Renegade Members, members who are non-financial due to the lack of brother/sisterhood they see after U/G. That is the schizophrenia. Many of us in Grad are so busy about the business, that we forget the "bond". Meetings are simply gatherings for "business associates", and not people who share an un-decipherable bond that can't be understood by the uninitiated. Again, if the goal is to be "an unincorporated business that does community service" why not eliminate undergrads or at least all of the social aspects of Greekdom? Why have intake since the real bonding and work takes place afterward? That is the schizophrenia. Eliminate the pretense and you don't have to worry about who pledged harder, who is paper, who skated, about chapters that are t-shirt wearers, about stepping, strolling, claiming fictitious relationships and bonds. You don't have to worry about any of those things that "real, financial and active members" concern themselves with. Just be about the "real work" of XYZ. If the "real work" of XYX is "community service", eliminate the "bond" that is causing the confusion/schizophrenia, the stepshows, the plots, the parties, homecoming, the rivalries. Let's just be about the "real business" and we will save ourselves all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Secondly, I never minimized being financial and active. That makes a good member, that makes a better member than an unfinancial "good Bruh". A "good Bruh" is someone you ask to stand at your side as you marry your Black Queen. A "good Bruh" is who you ask to to be your child's Godfather, a "good Bruh" will help you without asking questions like "how much? or "how long will it take?" A "good Bruh" will always set you out, provide a crust and a corner, a "good Bruh" will always be an asset to his family, community, and professional endeavors, a "good Bruh" will always represent Omega in its highest light. Now, none of these characteristics are necessitated by being financial or making chapter meeting on time. Considering that I am working on my Life Membership and that I am a Chapter Advisor and former Grad Chapter Basilues, I fight the reclamation fight all the time, I know the value of financial and active members to the success of our programs. But a "Brotherhood" that lasts a lifetime is not defined by financial status, but from the common bond that was forged over some burning hot sands. Now if you want to be my business partner or my fellow laborer in altruistic endeavors, I'll take a good member.