Boosie Wearing Greek Letters Isn’t Disrespect — It’s Hilarious
From one Black Greek member to another: y’all are getting way too bothered
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When I was 15, my high school counselor told me I needed community service to get into a good college. A few weeks later, a friend of mine asked me about joining the Jackson, Mississippi chapter of the Sigma Beta Club to get some community service hours. I didn’t know much about what those words meant, but I needed those service hours.
Sitting in that first meeting in the Northside YMCA, I learned that the Sigma Beta Club is a mentorship program in which members and alumni of Phi Beta Sigma, one of the “Divine Nine” Black fraternities and sororities, work with kids to get involved with their communities. I spent the next two years of high school around kind, patient, inspirational Black men — men I grew to admire, men who poured positivity into me. Men who took time out of their own lives to change mine.
When I got to college, I wanted to pay those two years of love forward. So in 2005, I pledged Phi Beta Sigma. I cherish my decision, the friends I’ve made, and the ways I’ve been able to touch lives through that organization. My…
