[TonyB06]

Whoa, this has blown up since this afternoon.

Like LI84?, I owe no explanation of my pledge process to anyone but those who made me and deemed me worthy of the letters. But I will say this GP, in America it is impossible to NOT be aware of numerous elements of white culture, be that fraternal existence or whatever else. Yeah, I could expound on Phi Beta Kappa but why?

Alpha's "jewels" (founders) sought and were denied inclusion in the fraternities of their day at Cornell, so they looked inside and took it to another level -- a higher level that surpassed all they saw. They started something that is well and ably advanced by ALL members of the D9 in communities throughout this nation and internationally, on a daily basis.

While I do support what we and the Sigmas did at Purdue, I do understand and give strong consideration to SKEEphistAKAte's point.

RainMan, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but beyond cursory observation, how can you discuss the mental processes inherent in what any of the D9s do? You say: "the current generation of members (Generation X and Y) simply do not know what it means to be HUMBLE, and to proactively act with true discerning WISDOM!" How exactly do you know this? All you know is what you see, right? I'm guessing there were say, 200 AfAm men arrested today across the U.S. Does that mean that tomorrow someone should watch you extra carefully?

I think everybody needs to step back from challenging anyone else's "blackness" or whether they served Black people at the expense of Christian people (as if the groups are mutually exclusive).

We ALL know why we do what we do and we ALL know that nobody in THESE United States does it betta. believe that.

peace to everybody on GC and I'm done with this one.