THE COLOR PURPLE - GO WATCH

If you are a black woman and have not seen this movie you are wrong. Go watch it now. That is all.

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CyrahOmega

PURPLE RAIN - THE BIRD

I watched Purple Rain for the first time last night and now I finally see why people like Prince. He is a fucking freak of nature to say the least lol. I didn't know that the guy Morris is the one that made up "Ah haaaaaah!", and that little dance Prince does when he walks all choppy and feels on himself...all these years I've been mocking actions like that because other actors and performers like Jamie Fox and Eddie Murphy have been emulating him. That guy is a character. My favorite part of the movie was the Bird performance by Morris, lol he was a good bad guy/ rival.

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CyrahOmega

GREEKS V. GANGS - NO CORRELATION

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First of all RIP to Derrion Albert and my condolences go out to his family and friends. I am using this tragedy as an example to correlate the notion that Greeks are gangs. This is a statement that was made in the city of Tallahassee by several students who happen to be "anti-greek"or just ignorant to rich history that black greek lettered organizations represent and uphold. Now I'm not saying that BGLOs act uncivilized and thuggish at times, but as humans don't we all? BGLOs tend to be criticized more because we are held to a higher standard, and I do agree with the saying "with great power comes great responsibility". However, as long as I live I will never let any greek organization act like these Chicago hoods that took this young mans life. In human nature and in survival of any living being 101, war, rage, hatred, and anger are natural. My initial take on this accusation was the same as seeing Deltas shoot the Psi, or a white person calling me a nigger, I was angered...my buttons were pressed and I was ready to put on the boxing gloves and retaliate with a hateful retort. Thinking back to my upbringing and utilizing my experience and wisdom I decided to reply differently, with education of BGLOs, and my humble and biased opinion. However my efforts were to no avail as the young men and women (wish I could find the facebook convo) still reponded like assholes with comments like "I won this debate". To me it wasn't about winning, it was about getting my point across that Greeks are not Gangs, BGLOs can get out of hand at time, but they will not host an organizaed gangfight and kill each other nor innocents.

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CyrahOmega

THE SWIM GAP - BLACK & WHITE

In America statistics say that a black kid is 3 1/2 times more likely to drown than a white kid. Most black kids grow up never learning how to swim. I myself have never taken swim classes, in fact the way I learned how to swim is from being thrown in the pool by my big cousins at Farquar park pool. Of course they weren't going to let me drown but it still was 3 1/2 times the chance than drowning from formal swimming lessons. It is said that the reason for these harsh statistics is from Black people's fear of water and our American past of desegregation of blacks in white pools. In 1971 integration of spring pools in America was in effect, that was 17 years after the integration of Schools. It is also said that blacks don't have buoyancy, but scientifically speaking a human can not float in it's live state, so this myth is null and void. Check the movie "Pride" (Thanks @MiaMck) starring Terrence Howard when you get a chance, and folks take your kids swimming.

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CyrahOmega

THE N WORD - NOT NINJA

On Oprah today she broke her normal pattern of behavior by having a rapper on her show. I know she had Ludacris before but that was for the movie crash. You probably seen the show because it was a classic as I do not recollect Oprah having a rapper on there and giving him airtime ever. They talked about numerous things such as his Rocawear empire, his wife beyonce, his new CD the blueprint 3, etc...but what I wanted to touch on was what they agreed to disagree on, the use and misuse of the word "nigga". Jay-Z's point was that we give words power, and since we took a negative word and twisted it and embraced it, than it's ok to use it. He also stated that if we took every bad word out of the dictionary it would be replaced with another bad word the next day. A valid point. Oprah, on the other had, had a feasible argument that her generation (the one that grew up through the civil rights movement) could not see that word in a positive light ever. She said that all she thinks about when hearing that word is black men and women getting lynched and hearing it as a last word before they die. Oprah said her generation will have to die out and say from the grave "Jay-Z I disagree" even still in death. My take on this is that these are two valid points but Jay-Z is wrong. He is a hip-hop icon and has more influence on young black America than Oprah does, I didn't start watching her until I was about 20 but I was listening to Jay-Z since I was about 13. His CD The Blueprint was when I fell in love with hip-hop, and it had a song with the chick Amilion or something (what ever happened to her anyway?) called "Nigga what, Nigga Who", and I mean Jigga my nigga is said throughout a lot of his songs. I don't think Jay-Z uses it to degrade blacks but by the upkeep of the word it in turn upkeeps racism to a certain degree and the dreaded memories of slaves dying. I think the African-American race needs to rededicate themselves to their history, we have to constantly remind ourselves of what our ancestors went through to get us here. I recently got into a spat with a caucasian sorority girl of Lambda Tau Omega, because she thought that since black poeple said nigga around her, she could say it too....I was like WOW, but that's a "whole nother" blog, in short I put her in her place and she apologized. You see it's so bad that white collegiate sorotiy girls think it's ok to call us the n word. Nothing positive comes out of that word, and I recently started a twitter campaign to get people to stop saying it, and calling each other it. Nigga is a stupid word.

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CyrahOmega

THE NATION OF QUELTA - QUES AND DELTAS THAT HANG OWT (FAMU ONLY)

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., two well known, historic, and successful organizations that benefit mankind. Many assume and would say that these are "brother and sister" organizations, and refer to the relationship they share as "Coleman Love" because of the founders Frank Coleman and Edna Brown Coleman's marriage. I'll say this, this notion is falsified, null, and void. Nowhere in any history book, or ritualistic manual will it say that this is a fact. Coleman Love does not exist, it is a figment of a non-being entity that clouds the minds of the members of these organizations as to what their organizations are about. I've road tripped and been to different chapters who roll different ways with the Coleman Love factor. Some throw parties, some have seminars, and some set each other out with, food, socials, and sometimes even sex. I've been down to OZ @ UF and Lambda Psi set owt pizza, mac and cheese, and hawaiian punch for the bruhs. Then I've been to chapters like The Mighty US down in the valley and they had chicken on the grill and a barrel of Oil brewing in the shower. Now there are Deltas/Reds/Sawrahz for instance that do genuinely love and want to get to know Ques as brothers and friends. I've been down in Orlando for the 49th convention of DST to go to a OBU party hosted by Russell Drake and got put in a resort with Ashley Poole the tail 06 from DXi out of Fayetteville State Univ and some of her line sisters. To me, one Omega Man with One Omega opinion, that is not "Coleman Love", that is just love, Ashley was such a nice person I believe I could've been a regular buddy and got housed, clothed, and fed. On the other hand the main reason I met Ashley/Ruby Red is because I am Da Bruhz. I know I'm going on tangents here, but I have to make this point. I only like those that like me, for instance when I meet Reds, and they try and hug me and introduce themselves and then that's it, not talk, not ever want to communicate with me ever agin in life (but say the know me, met me, and came to my chapter) I'm not with that. I haze. I like to get to know a muthafucka (excuse the language but I'm passionate about friendship). I like to know what somebodies real name is, not a line name, or what the Reds or Bruhz call you, or what you want to be known as....what if yo black ass gets arrested and we gotta bail you out, what if a family member is looking for you and we don't know your real name? How could you really get to know somebody if you don't even know their real name??? Back to the crux of the matter; In fact, only divine nine members that are constitutionally bound are the members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. The Alphas and AKAs are not for really, and the Kappas and SGRhos are not for really...The Iotas have sweets. Before I delve into NoQ or the recent Up Psi-BA Coleman Love relationship, let's talk about me...this is my blog after all. For the fall 2008, spring 2009 school year I served as parliamentarian for the FAMU chapter of the national pan-hellenic council. The president was my Alpha buddy Jeremy Mounticure, and in many meetings it would be us and about 4 other members present. I was an advocate for NPHC unity the entire year; choreographing an NPHC step performance and along with my Striker brother Brandon Mitchell who is an Alpha we made an NPHC stroll, and performed both at the "meet the greeks" showcase. Along with Jeremy we ran meetings and were about business. I set aside my Omega pride and it was almost as if I was an abolitionist for the freedom of Greek unity. I organized, planned, and hosted the NPHC awards banquet and social and had everybody in there vibing and some wasted. The AKAs apologized to me for stealing nalia, I was on the mic and shouted out the Kappas who are suspended, and I nixed the bruhz from hopping/wrecking. What more is a guy to do? Oh ok, I know what I did, I, along with my ism from 09BA Dominique Bercy started "The Nation of Quelta", a name inadvertently devised by Cendino Teme of Chi Theta. NoQ is comprised of a 7 member group, 2 bruhs and 5 reds that hang owt, don't have sex with one another, and protects each other from things like falsified info, bad mouthing, etc...This small club of people benefit the commonly misused link between the two orgs so that commo is better, therefore it stimulates the potential of the two separate orgs that the members are comprised of. Just like anything with great potential, "folks gone hate", NoQ is not hurting, nor disrespecting anything, it's helping. Deltas and Ques have been "trickfucking" and screwing each other since 1913, here we are in 2009 trying to put something positive together, the Nation of Quelta, and people are already trying to knock it. Knock Bruhrors, knock Delta Beuxs, knock Candy Bunnies, knock Cold Ducks, but in the words of Katt Williams "This shit right here....." you can't knock it. It is 100% pure love, it's positive, it's beneficial.

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CyrahOmega

OMEGA PSI PHI - THE ONLY QUES

So I was on twitter and seen that someone put a shout out on there about a service fraternity called Alpha Phi Omega, the thing is they referred to them as "AphiQ". This is a problem, The Greek letter Omega would actually be an English "W", the Men of Omega Psi Phi are known as "The Que Dogs", therefore we are the "Ques". It has a deeper meaning than just saying "Que". We wear gold boots for a reason, not just because it's cute. You'll find other organizations trying to emulate the Ques/ Da Bruhs/ Da Bruhz/ The Bruhs/ Omegas by wearing spray painted boots, wearing fatigues, licking their tongue out and trying to hop march and bark. My point of this whole blog is to let the brothers of Omega Psi Phi know that imitation is the highest form of flattery, and we shouldn't be as offended (especially as a neophyte with full enthusiasm) when people from other orgs try and emulate us. After all our not for really sister organization of Delta Sigma Theta, shoots the hooks hops marches and barks.....which leads me to my next blog.

Only one Omega Man with one Omega opinion,
CyrahOmega