aka's and the light brite TRUTH

106 replies · 157361 views · Started by Change · Oct 2005

Change

boston, MA

Change boston, MA

you know i've never seen a light skinned Black girl with long hair it was always weave akatude is the stereotypical aka only i'm not sure if that's her hair but anyways now anyone who is into reading should read some old book that actually documented aka's and their color struck inutations they WERE actually color struck and if you were not light enough you didn't get in i thought that was interesting because a myth came out to be TRUE of course it's different NOW but to KNOW that your org WAS discriminatory like that has to make u feel bad poor aka's

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cutiepie@csu from cincinnati, OH · Oct 2005

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Hmmmm no comment... Free Post!! Sorry Change P. No offense.

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Real Talk · Oct 2005

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While I find the book deeply disturbing at times, I would recommend you all reading "Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class" by Lawrence Otis Graham. The author discribes the history of several elite organizations (like the Boule, the Links, Greeks, etc.) and how individuals seeking membership into these orgs were ofen subjected to the "paper bag" test to determine whether they qualified for membership. I'm not attempting to say that this practice should be excused because it was commonly used at the time but I am asking (again).... what does that have to do with the topic posted?

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Change from boston, MA · Oct 2005

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and **** don't wrap their sh!t up either having bastids all willy nilly dumb **** ****

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Chief Pharaoh from Orangeburg, SC · Oct 2005

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Well this will go down in history as my first: FREE POST!!!!! 8)that felt pretty good

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IdealOne007 from Asheville, NC · Oct 2005

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ChangePlease wrote:
and **** don't wrap their sh!t up either having bastids all willy nilly dumb **** ****

:lol: Does this make you any happier? http://students.ou.edu/M/Craig.A.Marroquin-1/colorism.html

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AKAtude from brooklyn, NY · Nov 2005

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Yes, it is true that colorism played a MAJOR part in ANY ELITE BLACK ORG BACK IN THE DAY. Key word "BACK IN THE DAY" and please don't just assume that AKA is the only Divine Nine Org that did such activities as the paper bag test. For all you "Delta-wanna-bees" thinking that DST was the "darker" org...THINK AGAIN and do some damn research. If you did you will see that the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. were also subject to the paper bag test and if you go through past yearbooks I guarantee that you wont be able to tell the Deltas from the AKA's just by face value. Secondly, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. does not ONLY take in "light skinned" females; there is so much variety of colors, textures, shades and even shapes of us. Yess change you are right that I am light skinned, with long hair and hazel eyes (which all are genetically MINE) but the fact of the mater is that "I am what I am." By you telling me that I am light skinned and a "typical" AKA, is that supposed to make me think less of my self? Or down play my nationality? I hope not...if so it isn't working. I always hated this colorist bull because its always the insecure people that that wanna tell someone how u "aint black enough" or you "need to get in touch with ur roots." I hate that people in HBCU's in general are always so quick to tell someone about their nationality and "Africanness." Some people just need to evaluate them self. I am soooo fed up with these stereotypes

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WileECoyote06 · Nov 2005

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AKAtude wrote:
Yes, it is true that colorism played a MAJOR part in ANY ELITE BLACK ORG BACK IN THE DAY. Key word "BACK IN THE DAY" and please don't just assume that AKA is the only Divine Nine Org that did such activities as the paper bag test. For all you "Delta-wanna-bees" thinking that DST was the "darker" org...THINK AGAIN and do some damn research. If you did you will see that the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. were also subject to the paper bag test and if you go through past yearbooks I guarantee that you wont be able to tell the Deltas from the AKA's just by face value. Secondly, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. does not ONLY take in "light skinned" females; there is so much variety of colors, textures, shades and even shapes of us. Yess change you are right that I am light skinned, with long hair and hazel eyes (which all are genetically MINE) but the fact of the mater is that "I am what I am." By you telling me that I am light skinned and a "typical" AKA, is that supposed to make me think less of my self? Or down play my nationality? I hope not...if so it isn't working. I always hated this colorist bull because its always the insecure people that that wanna tell someone how u "aint black enough" or you "need to get in touch with ur roots." I hate that people in HBCU's in general are always so quick to tell someone about their nationality and "Africanness." Some people just need to evaluate them self. I am soooo fed up with these stereotypes

Tell em why you mad soror. LOL

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Chief Pharaoh from Orangeburg, SC · Nov 2005

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Looking at all the posts, all I can say is that regardless of the fact if the paper bag test was used or not, ALL organizations have their moments in time that they aren't proud of, but outside of that, it took these instances to better the organization. Alpha Kappa Alpha has been around for 97 years now (correct if wrong) and during that time the organization had to learn from the past in order to make a better future...Just as people do, organizations learn and progress, not repeat and dwell.

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