The Divine 9 / culture

Share something you love or hate about your culture or if anyone’s in the d9, share some of your experiences with it. Don’t be afraid to critique it also, cultures deserve to evolve.

One thing I love about my culture is the divine 9. My dad has the omega symbol burned onto his forearm when he was in college. I can show a pick down below if anyone’s curious. How they did it was they put him against a corner so he couldn’t run away from the pain of it and with a branding iron gave him a brand in the shape of the Omega symbol (just the Omega part of Omega psi phi) sounds gruesome tbh, but that’s what he wanted so oh well. It looks fucking rad tho. I don’t see it any different as traditional scarification in West African and Melanesia. It most likely stemmed from a mix of slave branding and traditional methods of scarification that passed down unconsciously. Uniquely black American I would say.

I always loved their strolls and how they presented themselves, and I always wanted to be a delta sigma theta with their cute little crimson and cream they got going on. Tho I do have some critiques like the reinforcing of cisheteronormativity and class division based of the contradictory metaphysical nature of what it means to be “sexed” within the specifically black(ed) context of having no form while simultaneously reproducing the conditions that keep us subjugated as we try and move towards “the human” (I’m in my Zakiyyah iman bag rn if you couldn’t tell )