Viewing page 1 of 17

00:00:09
00:05:13
00:00:09
Playback Speed: 100%

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Transcription: [00:00:09]
[[background song is playing, lots of drums, words chanted to the rhythm]]
[00:00:48]


{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Get back you alphas, kappas, sigmas, and q's, that's what they said...
[00:00:55]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
They were downing the other black fraternal organizations,

[00:01:01]




{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And proclaiming Groove Phi as the one that gets down,

[00:01:10]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Pointing at anyone in a crowd.
[00:01:19]
That's it

[00:01:22]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So, as you see, either you're on beat, or you're not,
I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's not jumping around in any random sort of, uh, fashion without being in beat or keeping a rhythm,
[00:01:34]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
That's, that's what, you know, that's a common denominator in our stepping,
We all- If you're going to step, you have to be somewhere in the beat or be with the rhythm,
[00:01:44]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Or you- You'll look like, what, a black dot on a white, on a white sheet or something, you know, Lost.
[00:01:52]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Are there any more questions?
[00:01:56]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Yes?
[00:01:57]

[[inaudible, someone asking a question in the background]]
[00:02:05]


{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The question is, what is the difference Groove Phi Groove and the Omega Si Phis, which are referred as Q's?
Alright, Joe would like this question. I like it too, but go ahead.
[00:02:20]
{SPEAKER name="Joe"}
Yeah well, we can share it. As far as the Q's, alright, and the Alphas and the Kappas and [[crosstalk]] the Sigmas. The non-social fellowships.
[00:02:29]
{SPEAKER name="Joe"}
They are from the Greek tradition, alright?
[00:02:36]
{SPEAKER name="Joe"}
They are Greek letter organizations, which is part of the Hellenic philosophy -- that's the word that's attached to that.
[00:02:46]
{SPEAKER name="Joe"}
We are not a Greek organization. We would like to be considered more or less a Black American organization because that's where our history is derived from.
[00:02:59]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
I'd like to add something else to that,
[00:03:01]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Out of turn of course but go ahead. [[audience laughter]]
[00:03:06]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Getting back to that question, I'd like to give a little history about us.
[00:03:09]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
We started in '62, as you might here in some of our chants. In the time preceding that, there were the white fraternities and sororities, and they didn't allow Blacks to enter into their groups.
[00:03:24]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
Then as time went on, later in the 50s, early 60s, Blacks began to organize their own fraternities and sororities.
[00:03:31]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
It really started back in 1911, right around then. The Alphas were the first Black fraternity founded...what was it, 1906? Okay.
[00:03:41]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We went from there, the Black fraternities became almost...I mean they called it a sort of elitism
[00:03:54]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Whereas they would accept members, but only certain members of the Black people.
[00:04:00]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Here you have organizations proclaiming to be this and that for Black people, but in essence Blacks, a lot of them, couldn't obtain membership into them for any different number of reasons.
[00:04:16]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now, out of the need for the people to be recognized as Black American people and not basically go in and proclaim to be Greeks or whatever,
[00:04:29]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Groove was founded as a means for anybody who had something to offer the organization, they could achieve membership.
[00:04:39]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We have white Groove Phi Groove brothers, so, I mean, color is not a barrier.
[00:04:46]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
If you have something to offer the organization, then you can pledge.
[00:04:52]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
This is where there's a major difference, I feel, in how history has been,you know, brought down, especially through Black fraternities and sororities and Black people, onto what we're trying to do as a social fellowship.
[00:05:07]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We're very young, we were founded in '62. But, go ahead, you got a rebuttal.


Transcription Notes:
I had trouble determining the number of men talking. Joe (speaker 2 in my notation, because I noticed a third person after I started) has a very deep voice. The other two men (maybe more?) have voices of similar tones. I think I got it right but it is difficult for me to distinguish.