First of all, apologies on the out of place post, my comment about directing you here was delayed until I finished getting dinner ready so I missed that you had already responded.
Some ideas, and I'll state that I don't know how many of these would be incindiary, how many would be useful and how many are duds. You and your brothers know the situation there much better than I.
1) First of all, I don't think a brawl on the yard is the best course of action, even if you do outnumber them.
2) Find out how many of the Zeta Phi brothers since the recharactering have actually done what he said. Went Alpha Phi Omega and then a Noble Nine. I don't think there is anything wrong with that if you stay active in both (Hi Rashid!), but if the numbers are small, you might want to use that in response.
3) You might want to mention brother Lucius Young by name, giving more particulars, I find the fact that they said that Brother Young simply was a member of an NPHC organization sort of strange since he is a brother of PBS.
4) Age, Alpha Phi Omega is only 3 years younger than SGR and certainly older than IPTh. And as best as I can tell, the first of the organizations that exist & pledge/intake at Howard is Kappa Kappa Psi (Band Frat) which predates APhiA (though not at Howard of course).
5) Ask whether Race matters... Does the fact that our founders were white make them any less as founders of a fraternity?
The answer may be to ignore, but I'm still throwing these out as ideas....
Randy