tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post9092571169267434964..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Black Fraternities & Sororities Chants That Mention Crossing The Burning SandsAzizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-34452374024631922742022-08-15T19:21:43.496-04:002022-08-15T19:21:43.496-04:00Thanks Anonymous for sharing your life experiences...Thanks Anonymous for sharing your life experiences and missions.<br /><br />People may walk different paths, but hopefully we look back on a life worth living.<br /> Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-54343659079279817682022-08-15T14:52:59.512-04:002022-08-15T14:52:59.512-04:00I salute you. It was "a season", in life...I salute you. It was "a season", in life. I went over @ a HBCU, where hotplates and Sand were used. They were suspended from campus. However, being well into my 70s I have found running a non-profit, helping others, retirement from the educational system has been fulfilling and my first love as I was taught and hopefully exhibited is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-64744766253905606382017-04-13T11:12:25.915-04:002017-04-13T11:12:25.915-04:00Nell Cannon, my position is that once you've &...Nell Cannon, my position is that once you've "crossed the burning sands", you're always a member of that Greek letter organization. <br /><br />I consider myself a long term inactive member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. And I acknowledge the memories that I have about my experiences with that organization and the lessons about myself and about others that I learned from pledging that organization and being active in that organization for a very short time.<br /><br />After joining Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., I decided to concentrate on the activities of a Black cultural organization called Committee For Unified Newark that I has also joined around the same time.<br /><br />Shortly thereafter, I left Newark and also left that organization.<br />I moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when I was 21 years old. Although there was and continues to be a very active graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Inc. in Pittsburgh, I never became involved in that chapter or any other chapter of that organization.<br /><br />I have various reasons for that including my decision to concentrate on raising my children, and my being active in African centered and African American centered cultural activities such as storytelling adapted West African folktales, collecting African American children's rhymes and game songs, starting and leading a cultural after-school group for children called "Alafia Children's Ensemble", and starting and coordinating a cultural website called "Cocojams".<br /><br />Also, the older I get, the less fond I am of organizational dynamics.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-87718516941432107422017-04-13T01:13:47.075-04:002017-04-13T01:13:47.075-04:00Why did you stop being an AKA?Why did you stop being an AKA?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06071890848442038778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-74288986971259111482016-07-31T23:59:26.142-04:002016-07-31T23:59:26.142-04:00I disagree with a definition about "crossing ...I disagree with a definition about "crossing the burning sands" that I just read on <a href="http://mycrazygreeklife.blogspot.com/2012/12/thebeginning-i-joined-bglo-black-greek.html" rel="nofollow">http://mycrazygreeklife.blogspot.com/2012/12/thebeginning-i-joined-bglo-black-greek.html</a> Greek Terminology<br />"Crossing the burning sands: This is done after a pledged or hazed process only. This is done with hot ashes.”<br /><br />-snip-<br />As an AKA who "crossed over" in the late 1960s, I know that definition wasn't true for my line. We DEFINITELY didn't cross over any hot ashes.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com