Omega Psi Phi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, etc: Whats You Thoughts on Sororities/Fraternities?

[alpo]

Smh wow

 

[KingsOfKings]

shyt is a waste of time/

I think they're kinda corny, but that's just me . I'm not about to pay a bunch of square ass nikkas money and let them abuse me for the sake of being friends or "brothers", that shyt is weak


My best friend pledged to be a "sweet nupe" like his older brother and I went to his induction ceremony thingy and it was straight up . A chick I used to kick it with last year was/is apart of the Theta Gamma Chapter of AKA and all her friends are corny and stuck up as shyt (yes, that AKA stereotype rings all the way true, fukk anybody who tells you otherwise). I also have a bunch of colleagues and classmates and old nikkas that have pledged and joined these institutions. Basically, it's just a big ass social club, and it's nothing wrong with that, but it's too much corn for my tastes

Spoiler

And they need to throw those old pictures of a bunch of black men and women all dressed up and lookin' dignified somewhere in a bush, because these sororities and fraternities have really killed any kind of respect people had for thier organizations. Every weekend, them nikkas are fighting at some party, club, or at a Waffle House

 

[KingsOfKings]

Que Psi Phi til I die

why did you join up?

 

[KingsOfKings]

at my school its like this

Kappas- Lightskin pretty boys, brownskin, darkskin bougie nikkas with money
Q's- Football players, Big nikkas
sigmas- lames
alphas- smart nikkas, tons of connections lowkey bougie

zetas- smuts
deltas- ugly smuts

 

[Knowledge]

 

[True Blue Moon]

why did you join up?

Pops is a Que so it's something I always had knowledge of. I respect that manhood is the first cardinal principle so it having common interests and philosophies opens the door for friendship and networking when meeting people in your travels.

I joined a grad chapter fresh out of college so I missed the party experience, but still joined up young enough to get a little taste of that part of things too.

 

[IronFist]

hmm

 

[KingsOfKings]

Pops is a Que so it's something I always had knowledge of. I respect that manhood is the first cardinal principle so it having common interests and philosophies opens the door for friendship and networking when meeting people in your travels.

I joined a grad chapter fresh out of college so I missed the party experience, but still joined up young enough to get a little taste of that part of things too.

would you do things differently now though?

 

[True Blue Moon]

I used to think like most until I joined. The networking (connections) and the automatic p*ssy was well worth the price and bs you have to put up with

What's good dog team

 

[True Blue Moon]

would you do things differently now though?

Probably woulda reached out a little earlier in my college career, but then again, I had a lotta other things to figure out at that time too. Everything happens for a reason and people find the frat at different times and for different reasons.

 

[KingsOfKings]

i cant fool with breh.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Treblemaka]

I'm a member of a D9 frat. There are good things and bad things about every organization, and just like every organization the people on the ground are the ones that make or break the org.

If you are trying to be someone have a plan and are motivated you will find the orgs very helpful especially after graduating. If you're a bum just looking to party and get hoes you joined for the wrong reasons and you will find it to be a waste of time.

Just like real life.

 

[IronFist]

Not my thing but something in regards to AKA in particular

AKA = hrp / hnt/ hp

Some resources are provided at the end for those interested in this history. The grapheme < A > derives from a logogram of a cow’s head (turned upside down). In ancient Egyptian, this cow’s head had the following consonantal values: jH, kA, and xrp. Note Egyptians did not write out their vowels, leaving only the consonantal skeleton. The above sound values appliy not only to the cow head hieroglyph, but to other glyphs of full-bodied cows, oxen, and bulls. The specific Gardiner sign you see on the image below is F1. The cow’s head in the proto-Sinaitic script was associated with the Semitic word *ʔlp “ox.” It is from *ʔlp = alif that we get “Alpha” in Greek, meaning “first” or the number “1.” Of course, Alpha is written twice in AKA. So, we will now deal with the second sign: i.e., < K >.

Now, the K in AKA is short for Kāppa and it comes from Proto-Canaanite kāp meaning “palm” (of hand) and “wrist.” The grapheme derives from the Egyptian D46 & D46D glyphs, with the Egyptian consonant values of: d, Drt (D46) and Hnt, Ssp, sSp, Sp, siA (D46D), respectively. Note as well on the image below the hand sign under the words AKA with the Egyptian sound values of kAp and kp (Gardiner sign F118A). However, there is a reflex of Semitic *kāp “palm of hand, wrist” in Egyptian that is worth noting. Now the WB dictionary notes the word kp “palm (of hand), sole (of foot)” [Wb 5, 118.11-12; Hoch, Sem. Words, no. 457]. However, we may need to revisit who loaned what to whom. We note Egyptian has as a native word kb.w “the soles (of feet)” and kb.wj "sandals." But as noted Correspondence 96, these forms also correspond to words meaning “leaf” or the “palm of the leaf.” Middle-Egyptian kb(w).t "soles of the feet, sandal" is cognate with Coptic kʲɔːbe "leaf," Sango kù-gbe ~ kwe "leaf," Zandé kpɛ "leaf," Somali kab "shoe."

the original meaning was leaf.

From foot > bottom > sole (of foot), bottom (palm) of leaf/hand. It can be found in ciLuba-Bantu di.shina “whole/entire plant; foot.” I believe the cognate for Egyptian kb.wt “soles of feet” in ciLuba is di.bèji “leaf, paper”; ci.bèji “large leaf.” Reflexes of this term can be found in Egyptian gAb.t “leaf, petal,” gAb.t “arms,” gb “blade, leaf.” The Bantu languages lost the velar sound in the sequence k-p, k-b, and g-b, leaving only the -b- + affix. This form of the word is reflected in Egyptian as baj “palm frond, rib of palm leaf” (Cf. Yoruba ɔ̀kpɛ “palm-tree”; Akan abɛ́ “palm-tree”; Proto-Bantu (PB) *bádè “palm-tree; midrib of palm-frond; leaf of palm,” *bànjí “rib; side of body; midrib of palm-frond; arrow”). Provided my argument that the original root was that of “foot,” I believe that Egyptian gbb “earth” and b “foot” > b.w “foot; place” are also reflexes of this root (foot > ground, floor, bottom). Given the relationship between “foot” and “arm” in Cyena-Ntu (< Negro-Egyptian), we also acknowledge the Egyptian correspondences gbA “arm” (Sango gbú “hold”) ~ gb “earth, land” (Sango gbè “at the foot of, under”) Can be noted the following reconstructions: *kə̆buʀ̃a- "earth, ground"; *kə̆buʀ̃a- "arm."

Provided the information above, it is interesting (synchronicity?) that the AKA’s have both “hands” (on the shield) and (Ivy) “leaves” as emblems of their sorority iconography; and that Kappa derives from a sign meaning “hand, palm” which also means “leaf” (I don’t think Egyptians knew of Ivy though). In the same vein, it is ironic, although not an official icon, that many of the Alpha chapters associate the Gorilla as a totem and the Phi in APhiA derives from a hieroglyph of a monkey. Egyptians, to my knowledge, never seen Gorillas. But they knew about many other types of Apes.



Gordon J. Hamilton. (2006). The Origins of the West Semitic Alphabet in Egyptian Scripts.​

 

[KingsOfKings]