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Back when I was a young college brother, my frat and I took delight in going to parties and chanting clever little ditties against other fraternities.  For the most part, the back-and-forth chants were good-natured, usually about how much more cool my organization was compared to another organization. Or how we pledged so much harder than they did. But it was all so innocent, with basically the goal of having partygoers say to their friends that your fraternity rocked the party over another fraternity.

But there was one chant that would always piss us off. It was when any rival fraternity inevitably began chanting “Gay Phi Gay” in a sing-song way.  Oh, how that would burn us! One reason was because A Phi A was an easy rhyme with Gay Phi Gay, which made it hard to stop.  But more importantly to us, no heterosexual fraternity man wanted to be connected with anything gay. It was the “no homo” era before the “no homo” era.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Anything Greek is synonymous with gay…Thought y’all knew..

    And why would BLACK men want to even be associated with greeks being is that the culture itself, historically, has been one of great homosexuality??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/oh_bother/ oh_bother

    exaaaaaaaactly @califemme23……….bunch of elitist,arrogant, show offs who claim that they joined to better themselves and thier community…..end of the day, the sh*t looks better on your resume, and you get a few more heads turned your way come greek week. I can dig the loyalty, the honor, and the tradition…every culture has/ needs it, i can dig black men getting together in positivity and making each other better. but the average n*gga now days get in a frat and it aint nothin but an educated gang…….colors and all……..so i’ll pass……oh and cali gotta point…..romans and athenians was f*ckin lil boys up the a** so you can have that greek sh*t

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/infinite_question/ infinite_question

    califemme23, u must have seen them “strolling”. on the real, they’re just social organizations. i’ve seen frats and sorors give back to the organizations that made their college life run a lil smoother. as black youth, we have enough social issues to deal with: we’re statistically poorer than the other students, and these organizations help to fill the “donut hole” black students will face at white universities by offering black sponsered affordable social functions , tutoring, and even housing for some students.

    to me its no different than vice lords, bpsn, growth and developement, the tea party, or even the naacp. its like minded people comming together to make the experience more enjoyable for its members. the REAL reason why they hated being called gay, was because of the social hiearchy being “PUSHED” on young black youth (by the media). (im about to start randomly hating, but at least im honest) media wise, its perfectly normal for a black man to act feminine IF he is the alpha male (punk from i love ny). but on the other hand…just seeming intellegent, or having an opinion about anything that isnt “street”, will get u branded as “not real enough”. like the streets are so complex that i cant have an opinion about anything that doesnt happen there, without seeming like i turned my back on my culture.

    white people go along with this, especially the women. this is why its extremely rare to find a (smart or dumb) white woman with an intellegent black man (or he might just know his history, and hers too). i think black women are better at recognizing black genious, but even they will look at a smart black man as if he is a diamond in the ruff, and it shouldnt be like that.

    in closing, i feel that its every black students PERSONAL responsibility to learn their OWN culture/history. its not that hard to find, but when u teach a man to fish…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Real_bumbleclot/ Real_bumbleclot

    Black + gay + greek = all f**ked up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    oh_bother, “but the average n*gga now days get in a frat and it aint nothin but an educated gang…….colors and all…”

    You got it! Let’s not forget the sodomy, beatings, degrading, torture and human branding that goes on in the name of brotherly bonding…

    How can these organizations be so great and helpful when they damn near kill the people who want to join? OOPS! Wait, I believe a few people have died due to the hazing, as well as found themselves hospitalized….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Those ladies are HOTTIES, yet they hate men and rather eat on each other. SMH…..
    I don’t SEE what’s so great about ladies eating each other out instead of the NORMAL man/woman eating each other…a TRUE-HOTTIE is strickly dickly, not curiously clitty……

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/easy_one65/ easy_one65

    We need to Clorox ourselves of all this gayness shyt Every other phucking article on BP is gay, gay, gay, bi, lesbo, dl…I mean got-damn!…LOL!…Am I missing something??!!…And I know I ain’t the only one asking this quesition. If they ain’t trying to kill us with AIDS/HIV, bad food or malt liquor, then they’re sending the butchs and ladyboys after us!…Time to cancel BP…it’s going to the pits!

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