1. This article reads like a gossip column. What does his troubled marriage have to do with him embezzling funds...? Way to sensationalize. Hard to see what's fact and what it isn't. Feel like I'm reading about Trayvon Martin....
2. *smirk* A black man called, 'Skip'.
3. So, they had issues with the man from the beginning. Hmm. If he stole? SMH. One question: Have they located the co-conspirator? *laugh* I dunno. I figure... 'Skip' must do the accounting for Alpha Phi Alpha, as well. What with all the eyeballs on him, I find it hard to imagine how this 'bloated little boo-boo' managed to slip past an audit for almost 2 calendar years....
4. I do make exceptions, but (as a gen'l rule) I really don't care to 'donate' to orgs. Don't care who they are or who founded them. I'd rather volunteer time/svs/skills, anyhow.
...and I'm talking volunteering, sororities, social clubs, pet clubs, etc....
Everyone wants some dues & donations. Chi/Toy breed rescue, 'Wounded Warriors' and my sorority are the only groups that I throw money at with 'verve'. I like pets...and I put heart & soul into being members of the latter two.
At one time or another.
Everyone one? The usual: characteristic reluctance.
There are benefits to membership, though. So, I s'pose it's not a total loss. I guess....
You get to meet people, network, volunteer and social climb...over luncheons, dinners and galas.
This pass few days, the girls got all 'bougied up'... *laugh*... in their wide-brimmed spring hats and spring colors and sipped mint juleps to celebrate 'motherhood'...with the local news in attendance. There was a freakin' hat contest and photo ops and, somewhere in the midst of all that, they managed to raise a couple thousand for...hell, I dunno -- uh, dirt farmers in Bangladesh...?
*laugh*
I dunno.
I've been running with this kind of crowd since I was a child. Wasn't my choice...really. My mother volun-told me. I couldn't even be a Del-teen (delta sigma theta aux for teen girls), like the rest of my friends? I had to join the teen aux for the Alpha Kappa Alpha....
But, yeah...'this crowd'. Been dealing with 'this crowd' for a while.
After a while, it all just seems a bit... contrived....?
I didn't attend the function...and no - this wasn't a black sorority function. It was hosted by a young black professional group of late 20 and 30-somethings.
I understand why the 'blacker' black folks ...*laugh*... are so critical of certain black groups/organizations.
...and I'm not spilling state secrets, here. *laugh* Everyone knows that you can't join certain black orgs and 'mommy groups' unless:
A. You're vouched in
and
B. You look good 'on paper'.
...and the only folks being helped are those who are able to help themselves. <-- a common theme.
I understand why certain things exist as they are, but there's a kind of 'wrongness' to it.
There are good people in these groups. They mean well.
I want to say that I'm not knocking black orgs, but...I guess I am.