I've heard A Lot about my beloved fraternity in this thread! I just want to clear up some things along with my frat earlier in the thread.
1. Alpha was founded out of necessity due to racial oppression and a NEED for brotherly bonds among men
2. All BGLOs were founded out of a need to serve the black community
3. While it is true that there was a burgeoning black middle class, only one of our founders was a part of that! The rest were primarily poor...educated, but poor.
4. ALPHA did do something special on December 4, 1906...it founded a fraternity via a prestigious college institution...which prospered and grew to develop into an organization that sustained its members through college...and aided the BLACK community. As I've said before on other threads, Sigma Pi Phi is NOT the same...it was neither founded to serve in this manner, nor does it continue to serve in that capacity...Sigma Pi Phi is much more like the Bone and Skulls of Princeton (it's a different kind of society.)
5. Our organizations in part were founded out of a need to serve Black Communities on predominantly white campuses....as anyone can easily see by charting our histories...many of our oldest chapters are at prestigious white institutions because it was at these schools that black folks could not live in housing...assemble...and did not have support...Almost every BGLO history will show that white faculty was in support becaue Fraternities and Sororities would give black people their own community structure! A structure that the college was reluctant to provide!
Howard is one of the only HBCUs to allow Greekdom to flourish...almost all HBCUs were reluctant to have these organizations because they thought it would splenter their campus...and cause division along color, class, and friendship...As example, AKAs and Deltas didn't come to Spelman until the early 70s
I want to talk more...but am afraid that I am always too longwinded
06 to my cold cold cold bruhz of Alpha Phi ALpha,
PHI-SKEE to those lovely ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha (said with emphasis),
and much greek love to fellow fraters and sorors in the Black Greek Family,
I am,
The Ice Cold Kreator
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