Top 10 Signs You Are A Die Hard Omega

[RitaMae1908]

I just want to say that I am glued to my computer screen... Wolfman what a great example of an exemplary Man, no less an Omega Man, you are! You go boy! I'm loving yours stories almost to tears. I am just moved by the love of your brotherhood. Many folk that are in outside looking in want to trivialize (sp?) and shed a negative light on our beloved BGLOs. The media especially could see the good in what we do if they just looked a little harder. It's easier to be negative I guess.
Thank you for sharing your stories...
I think we're due another one

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by RitaMae1908

I just want to say that I am glued to my computer screen... Wolfman what a great example of an exemplary Man, no less an Omega Man, you are! You go boy! I'm loving yours stories almost to tears. I am just moved by the love of your brotherhood. Many folk that are in outside looking in want to trivialize (sp?) and shed a negative light on our beloved BGLOs. The media especially could see the good in what we do if they just looked a little harder. It's easier to be negative I guess.
Thank you for sharing your stories...
I think we're due another one

A few weeks ago, the local grad chapter I'm a member of recently started a youth mentoring program for at-risk African American/Latino middle school male students. We has our kick off celebration and initial session. During the celebration, the room was filled with mother (from single parent houseolds), grandparents and local elected officials. Our keynote speaker was a 20+ year Que from another chapter in the Metro NYC area. He is a father, minister,author,activist, and involved in the advocasy of our youth and so many more things. He held both the mothers and their sons enrapt by the "testimony" of his life and his word to them about manhood and raising black men. This is a testimony of a Que who became an Omega when a student-athlete and father of a baby. The following links tell a part of his story of what a real "Die Hard" Omega is about: Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift.

http://www.globalblacknews.com/lambball.html
http://www.ThabitiEnterprises.com

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by RitaMae1908

I just want to say that I am glued to my computer screen... Wolfman what a great example of an exemplary Man, no less an Omega Man, you are! You go boy! I'm loving yours stories almost to tears. I am just moved by the love of your brotherhood. Many folk that are in outside looking in want to trivialize (sp?) and shed a negative light on our beloved BGLOs. The media especially could see the good in what we do if they just looked a little harder. It's easier to be negative I guess.
Thank you for sharing your stories...
I think we're due another one

A "Die Hard" Que like will party anytime.

In his autobiogrpahy, Bro. Rev. Benjamin L. Mays, Ph.D., the late president of Morehouse College, who had a tremendous formative influence on generations of black men, including MLK, Jr., related this story. In the early '20s when he was serving as a pastor of a baptist church in Atlanta, he went to a Que picnic on a Sunday afternoon after he got out of the pulpit. Someone from the church saw him dancing at the event with some woman. Well, they took this back to the board and there was a big stink about it, and he almost got fired. But a "Die Hard Que" has to do what he has to do: Be OWT!

[RitaMae1908]

Originally Posted by Wolfman

A "Die Hard" Que like will party anytime.

In his autobiogrpahy, Bro. Rev. Benjamin L. Mays, Ph.D., the late president of Morehouse College, who had a tremendous formative influence on generations of black men, including MLK, Jr., related this story. In the early '20s when he was serving as a pastor of a baptist church in Atlanta, he went to a Que picnic on a Sunday afternoon after he got out of the pulpit. Someone from the church saw him dancing at the event with some woman. Well, they took this back to the board and there was a big stink about it, and he almost got fired. But a "Die Hard Que" has to do what he has to do: Be OWT!

I know that's right... there's still a stigma that goes along with "being" Greek... like you can't be both a Christian and a member of a BGLO!? But I beg to defer.

[poeticace]

I'm not a D9 greek either, but as a multicultural greek, we recognize and respect our roots... so thank-you, wolfman for reminding ALL greeks what sister/brother hood is about. Your stories are touching and beautiful