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Thread #103135   Message #2097057
Posted By: Azizi
08-Jul-07 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Fraternity & Sorority Chants and Songs
Subject: RE: Fraternity & Sorority Chants and Songs
One of the keenest rivalries among the BGLO {Black Greek letter organizations is the beef between the two sororities AKA {Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc.} and DST {Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., also known as "Deltas"}. To simplify the history, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. founded in 1908, was the first {university based} Black Greek letter sorority. However, in 1913, members of AKA sorority left that organization to establish Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Complicating this rivalry is the fact that at one time, it was difficult to be a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. if you weren't a light skinned African American woman. Of course, that has largely changed and members of these two sororities may diss each other just for fun. But there's no denying that there are some people the rivalry between the two organizations is a serious matter...

Here are two dissin sorority chants:

HEY! SOROR OVER THERE
Hey!
Soror over there,
with your nose up in the air!
to cute to be a DST, somebody say Skee Wee!!!

This is my pinkie (hold up pinkie)
And this is my hand (hold out hand)
It's just like an AKA to take your man

You're mad about your boyfriend
And that's no lie
It takes a real ALPHA Woman to keep him satisfied

So get yourself together and put your man on a leash because he'd rather be with beauty (sorors hold up your pinkie)

Than to be with the beast!
(sorors do the Delta's hand sign upside down. Should be an upside down triangle)

["Skee Wee is the AKA call"; Delta's sign is a triangle made with both hands; "soror" means "sorority sister", an AKA holding up her pinky is part of that sorority's hand sign]
-soulforealAKA; http://www.stophazing.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000243 ; 10-24-2005

**
IN 1908
In 1908,
you started it true.
Deltas were AKA's just like you.
But 22 ladies made a deal to be
cute sisters and plain ol' REAL
No ivy, no mirror, no pink no green.
The real sorority started in 1913.
So it's cool AKA, do what u do.
We can skee-wee, but u can never oo-oop.
-REDalert05 ; http://www.stophazing.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000243 ; 10-04-2005

[The "ivy" plant is associated with AKA; The sorority's "pledges"-women trying to be members-are called "ivies". At certain points in a step show, AKAs play on their self-constructed image as "pretty girls" by pretending to hold a mirror in front of them {or one of their sorors} and pretend to fix their hair. "Pink and green" are the colors of AKA].