Like my relationship with Fisk, I will take what I can, throw away the rest I will build when needed, serve when asked but keep my distance. I see far to many men using my org as some kind of low budget business and not a brotherhood.Īnd I simply refuse to be apart of it. I see my org unable to decide if its a street gang or a frat. I see my org that cant decide if it wants to be dark skinned Alphas or literate Ques. Today I'm not active because I just don’t see the legacy anymore. I believe there are far to many little boys who've experienced nothing and use this to make them feel whole. I also believe that my inability to make Sigma define me, rather I define it keeps me away. I'm not active simply because I hate the niggaz in it. " But if you feel that strongly Terrance, why aren’t you active"? Its on more piece of a larger puzzle, one more reason to affirm why "I am Black Studies". Shit to be honest and I mean this as no exaggeration, Phi Beta Sigma is Black Studies and it is Black History.Īnd to be apart of that means my legacy within Black Studies is cemented. It is no wonder that PBS is truly the sum of all things. The founders of my wondrous band really were ahead of their time. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc, is indeed the people's frat. The concept of culture for service and service to humanity is fundamental in understanding that we, Black people, are the movers and shakers and must claim what we want and at the same time serve. I love the concept of brotherhood, scholarship and service, for it truly through that order will we achieve liberation.
So if it was good enough for them, then it was good enough for me. Its funny that before I became a Sigma, all of these men where heroes, hell my father used to work for the late Mayor. Philip Randolph, Hosea Walker, Ben Muhammad, The Temptations, Blair Underwood and Emmitt Smith all men of character, race pride, excellence and dignity. Huey P Newton, Mayor Harold Washington, A. I really do.Īll of my heroes are men of Sigma. I love it single handedly ran the Million Man March. I love the fact it was at the fore front of the civil rights movement and the Black Power Movement. I love the fact it was the first BGLO to have a chapter in African, to introduce legislation against anti lynching, and at the corner stone of the Harlem Renaissance. I go over history and facts in my head as I go about my daily routine. I tried to live by the 12 inch rule and the one I love the most: best performance of duty. I sing the song at some point during the day. I've been one since that fateful morning where I cried on April 3rd 2002 at 3:18:12am.
Wait you didn’t know that I was a man of Sigma? There can only be two reasons for that: 95 years of being the sum of all things is no small feat.
"Happy founders day to the men of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
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