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

[SPACE IS FAKE]

i liked stomp the yard

 

[RaspberryFitted]

i liked stomp the yard

“Gamma who? One word.. bytchES “

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

“Gamma who? One word.. bytchES “

 

[invalid]

It's crazy to me how we as black Americans view each other as one people, but have so many different intra-community cultures.

Blows me away to see so many black people not familiar with black Greek culture. Everybody in my family is Greek. Everybody we know is Greek. Our whole church is Greek. All my elementary school teachers were Greek. All my mentors were Greek. All my girlfriends were Greek as well as their families.

Just crazy to me.

 

[Killah Ray]

I almost joined up back in college for networking purposes I regret not doing it, but I wound up straight in the long run though. I'm gonna encourage my kids to do it once they're in college though...

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

It's crazy to me how we as black Americans view each other as one people, but have so many different intra-community cultures.

Blows me away to see so many black people not familiar with black Greek culture. Everybody in my family is Greek. Everybody we know is Greek. Our whole church is Greek. All my elementary school teachers were Greek. All my mentors were Greek. All my girlfriends were Greek as well as their families.

Just crazy to me.

You are contradicting yourself mentioning intra-community cultures and then finding it crazy folks not familiar with Greek culture. My guess everyone in your family and social circle has gone to college. You should know that doesn't apply to a lot of folks.

 

[LevelUp]

Will never understand it

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Wanna be cacs

 

[LevelUp]

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.​

My guy be going in

 

[ba'al]

boooooooooooougie nikkas.

Got a family full of Prince Hall Masons and Black Greeks.

Them boougie boule ass nikkas. They feel like they better than everyone else because of their frat or sorority.

Good for networking though.


Christians might be familiar with gospel Musician and Pastor William Murphy he just pledged to Omega Psi Phi.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Apollo Creed]

boooooooooooougie nikkas.

Got a family full of Prince Hall Masons and Black Greeks.

Them boougie boule ass nikkas. They feel like they better than everyone else because of their frat or sorority.

Good for networking though.


Christians might be familiar with gospel Musician and Pastor William Murphy he just pledged to Omega Psi Phi.

Elitism is human nature, the issue is these people aren't the "cream of the crop" in the context of an ethnic group or "black society", these folks are just gate keepers for white supremacy on avg

 

[LevelUp]

Elitism is human nature, the issue is these people aren't the "cream of the crop" in the context of an ethnic group or "black society", these folks are just gate keepers for white supremacy on avg

 

[King_Kamala61]

I'm an Alpha. And not much else.

I knew it!

 

[IronFist]

My guy be going in

Preciate it