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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
IMHO, there IS no reason to turn your pin in upon taking your oath to the organization you choose to join!!!
With that being said, I have seen "others" in organizations that have ostracized certain members 'cuz they came thru one way or another. When I saw the challenging, the tests, the neglect, the resentment, the hurt, the anger hurled at these members, not to mention that it IS hazing as defined by the NPHC, it broke my heart... But no one ever told these folks to remember what was the "REASONS" why they joined... And those reasons change from time to time, chapter to chapter and life circumstances to livelihood...
Remember, why do folks leave the Church, Mosque, Temple or Shrine?
Maybe 'cuz we live in a pluralistic society and several folks died so that some folks can BE flaky like dat... I dunno...
I think we can all say that our committment to some things are extremely limited... Just look at the Untied States divorce rates... Look at the increases in children caught up into the foster care system 'cuz their folks wanted other thangs... Shoot, if a mamma cain't be committed to her child, then dayum, how can we ask someone be committed to our organizations?
Which leaves me to leap and bound to the fact, that all the HBGLO's in the NPHC were formed during a time of oppression and that our relevance is being tested today by the mere fact of how all of our intake processes have had to change...
So some ippy dippy interest rolls upto us half-baked and makes MIP (today as required by Nationals) then flakes out and turns in her 'nalia 'cuz she wasn't strong enuf relative to our foremothers... Then... What??? Maybe, IMHO, we need to do our own private investigations and research bout flossy assed negroes... 'Cuz I'm tired of the faked funkers! It's time to find those who can step... Hopefully UP!
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It is strange that you should say such a thing. I hope you do not take offense by this...and I will probably be banned from the forum..but I hope you get to read this...I find it odd that time and time again I have read about members "bouncing" so to speak over trivial reasons and that it's time to do this and that, time to up the quality of membership, then when one applies, and this probably sounds self-absorbed, but oh well, when one applies, she is looked over because her "strength" is unsettling, or somehow causes those with the power to grant her membership to believe that because she is so outspoken about certain issues, she will indeed be the one to "flake out" so to speak. It is just odd to me. Even though I have read time and again that chapters are different, it just doesn't seem to justify a "quality" prospect that does "step up" by adhering to you public policy being unjustly overlooked
then have one that got in "flake out" and walk
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