Throughout my course of living there have been many books that I have read, some educational, fictional, autobiographical, and even historical. Of all the books I have read one book comes to mind with a certain issue that is becoming a nuisance upon the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin.

The Divine Nine is a book tells the history and enlightenment of the “Nine Historiclly Black Greeks”, from the fraternities you the men of Phi Beta Sigma, Omega Psi Phi, Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Phi Alpha, and Iota Phi Theta. The other four Greeks were made of women Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and Sigma Gamma Rho of all the Greeks listed in the book never once did I read any reference of the brothers and sisters of Alpha Kappa Psi. The Greeks that I listed above were all fraternities and sororities that were founded by black students that believed in bettering the community. As usual the guilty will speak and try to respond but, before you do think about what you’re are doing, you claim you are a business fraternity but you prance around chanting and line dancing like those of the Divine Nine.

One of your core values is “Integrity” and it defines itself as: All actions, whether in business or in life, are guided by honesty, ethics, and fairness. All the men and women that started our social fraternity and sororities within the Divine Nine where people that where of our same color and ethnic background, not for one moment do I want you to believe that I am a racist but, honestly what do you have in common with your 10 founders. I’m proud of the fact that you want to expand your networking by participating in the brothering of Alpha Kappa Psi but where is the integrity in joining a fraternity and making it into a rip off a historically black fraternity. Do you believe that, this is fair and honest to try to rip off traditions that historically black fraternities are known for doing? You are basically making a mockery of the values and goals of your founders. This is not a attack on your organization it’s just a plea to those whom make themselves look like “Wanna-Be’s” when they parade around at parties line-dancing. When in Memphis or whatever hometown you’re from, when was the last time you you went to a AKPsi party or when have you seen someone line dancing with extreme similarities to those of the men of Alpha Phi Alpha. Not only are you making yourself look bad by doing these action but you also make our famous brothers and sisters that have paved the way for us through the years and has bettered our black founded Greeks by being apart of them. By all means this plea is not all the members by far because many of you joined to real better your busisness and leadership skills which I can respect but to those whom know they’re doing it please stop it’s not funny or cute? Before I let you marinate and before you try to retaliate on how much have we done for the community ask around before you embarrass yourselves anymore, “Marinate on That!”