This goes out to you…

While I was never the sorority girl type, on February 18, 2007 I became a chartering member of the Rho Theta chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. Court, Liz, and Dana were all the closest friends in my life at the time and we did it. We chartered the first historically African American organization on our 93 percent white campus.

Who would have guessed that I would end up in a sorority? I never knew about sororities until college when I saw all the kappa deltas and sigma kappas with their permanent smiles and popped collars. I later learned how vastly different BGLOs are from their white counterparts.

Since our freshmen year, Courtney wanted a sorority on campus. In our junior year, it was finally happening.

In Sigma Gamma Rho I have found myself refined and refreshed pledging my life to a common motto of “Greater Service, Greater Progress.”

What I learned soon after my crossing into Sigma Land was how divisive BGLOs are with one another. I mean think about how DST was founded by an ex-member of AKA. It’s almost like the different denominations of religion. Someone got mad and left and created their variation of what the organization should be.

While I will not admit that WE are all the same, we do seem to have the same mission of giving back to the community and exemplifying strong sisterly bonds. We just do it in different colors, calls, and signs.

Well anyway, I love my blue and gold. I love my sorors. I love the chartering members of Rho Theta.  

~ by hiphop08 on February 21, 2008.